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In addition to Fact Sheets, Resource Cards, and Smart Growth Links, the iTRaC program is proud to offer communities even more reference materials through our iTRaC Lending Library. Residents, elected officials, and community board members can check out books from our collection on a monthly basis. Below you will find a list of the publications currently available through the iTRaC Lending Library program.

To check out an iTRaC book, please contact Jill Simonetti at jills@nashuarpc.org or 603-424-2240 x27. We can mail materials to you or please feel free to drop by the Nashua Regional Planning Commission office to browse our selection for yourself.

 

Energy & Green Building
Form Based Codes
I-93 Corridor
Land Use
Rural Planning

Landscaping/Streetscaping

Smart Growth
Smart Growth ~ Housing
Traffic Calming & Transportation
Water Resources
Community Participation/Advocacy

Population

 

Title ~ Green Building
Products

Author ~ GreenSpec Guide, 2005

Links ~ GreenSpec

Title ~ Green Building: Project Planning & Cost Estimating

Author ~ R.S. Means, 2002

Title ~ Low Impact Development Design Strategies

Author ~ Dept. of Environmental Resources, Prince Georges Co. MD, 1999

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Residential Green Building Guide: A Web Source Book for New England

Author ~ US EPA, 2006

Link ~ Online document

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Title ~ The High Cost of Free Parking

Author ~ Donald Shoup, 2005

   
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Title ~ Resource Book #1:Introduction to Proactive Growth Planning

Author ~ I-93 Community Technical Assistance Program

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Resource Book #2: Technical Assistance & Resource Identification

Author ~ I-93 Community Technical Assistance Program

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Resource Book #3: Proactive Growth Management Strategies

Author ~ I-93 Community Technical Assistance Program

Link ~ Online document

   
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Title ~ From Traditional to Reformed: a review of land use regulations in the nation's 50 largest metro. areas

Author ~ Brookings Institution, 2006

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ The Old Neighborhood: what we lost in the great suburban migration 1966-1999

Author ~ Ray Suarez

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Title ~ Above & Beyond

Author ~ Campoli, Humstone, & MacLean; 2002

Title ~ Managing Development in Small Towns

Author ~ Brower, Carraway, Pollard, & Propst; 1984

Title ~ The Small Town Planning Handbook

Author ~ Daniels, Keller, & Lapping; 1988

Title ~ Conserving Your Land: Options for New Hampshire Landowners

Author ~ Brenda Lind; 2005

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Title ~ Best Development Practices: a Primer for Smart Growth

Author ~ Reid Ewing

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Getting to Smart Growth

Author ~ International City/County Management Assoc.; January 2002

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Getting to Smart Growth II

Author ~ International City/County Management Assoc.; October 2003

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Integrating Planning & Public Health: Tools & Strategies to Create Healthy Places

Author ~ American Planning Association, 2006

Title ~ The Limitless City

Author ~ Oliver Gillham; Island Press, 2002

Title ~ Making Smart Growth Work

Author ~ Douglas R. Porter, 2002

Title ~ Our Built & Natural Environments

Author ~ US EPA, January 2001

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ SmartGrowth: Transportation Guidelines

Author ~ Institute of Transportation Engineers, 2003

Title ~ Smart Growth Zoning Codes: A Resource Guide

Author ~ Steve Tracy, 2003

Title ~ This Is Smart Growth

Author ~ Smart Growth Network, 2006

Title ~ When City & Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe

Author ~ Tom Daniels, 1999

Title ~ Why Smart Growth: A Primer

Author ~ International City/County Management Association

Link ~ Online document

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Title ~ Affordable Housing & Smart Growth: Making the Connection

Author ~ Smart Growth Network, 2001

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Smart Growth for Neighborhoods: Affordable Housing & Regional Vision

Author ~ National Neighborhood Coalition, July 2001

 

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Title ~ A Toolbox for Alleviating Traffic Congestion & Enhancing Mobility

Author ~ Michael D. Meyer; Institute of Transportation Engineers; 1997

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ At Road's End: Transportation and Land Use Choices for Communities

Author ~ Carlson, Wormser, Ulber; 1995

Title ~ Flexibility in Highway Design

Author ~ US Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Innovative Traffic Control: Technology & Practice in Europe

Author ~ US DOT, Federal Highway Administration; Aug. 1999

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Streets & Sidewalks, People & Cars

Author ~ Dan Burden; April 2000

Title ~ Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities

Author ~ Southworth & Ben-Joseph; 1997

Title ~Traffic Calming

Author ~ Cynthia L. Hoyle, 1995

   
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Title ~ Protecting Water Resources with Higher Density Development

Author ~ US EPA, January 2006

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Protecting Water Resources with Smart Growth

Author ~ US EPA

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Using Smart Growth Techniques as Stormwater Best Management Practices

Author ~ US EPA, December 2005

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ The Practice of Low Impact Development

Author ~ US Dept. of Housing & Urban Development

Link ~ Online document

Title ~ Landscaping at the Water's Edge

Author ~ UNH Cooperative Extension, 2007

   
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Title ~ Defining WE in Environmental Advocacy

Author ~ Dick Brooks & Michael Goldberg, 2004

Title ~ Growing Together: Consensus Building, Smart Growth, & Community Change

Author ~ Melissa Paly, New England Environmental Finance Center, 2006

*Note: this is a DVD

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Title ~ Integrated Landscaping: Following Nature's Lead

Author ~ UNH Cooperative Extensionl, 2007

   
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Title ~ Communities & Consquences: the unbalancing of NH's human ecology & what we can do about it

Author ~ Peter Francese & Lorraine Stuart Merrill, 2008

   
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