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Contributing organization(s): Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
This resource provides information about brownfields redevelopment targeted to municipal planners and decision-makers. The primer defines brownfields, identifies benefits and barriers involved in brownfield redevelopment, discusses related issues such as green building and...Contributing organization(s): Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
"); document.writeln("In 1993, DVRPC published the first Rating the Region report, which compared the Philadelphia metropolitan area to the nation's nine other largest metros plus Pittsburgh and Baltimore as regional competitors. That report found that the Philadelphia region had one of the na...Contributing organization(s): Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
The development of the US economy has been fundamentally shaped by the availability of abundant, low-cost energy. There is growing consensus, however, that a major change in the global energy regime will impact the economy shortly. The question is not if, but rather how so...Contributing organization(s): Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
The Automobile at Rest: Toward Better Parking Policies in the Delaware Valley presents an overview of parking policies and requirements in the Delaware Valley region, along with strategies for managing and designing parking better. Each of the region's 353 municipalities s...Contributing organization(s): Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
This report is a guide for municipalities and counties in the Delaware Valley region to assist them in understanding and implementing zoning to promote smart growth. Smart growth is an approach to development that discourages sprawl, while encouraging revitalization of urb...Contributing organization(s): Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest)
"); document.writeln("This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Sec...Contributing organization(s): Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
Analytical data report #15 is the latest in a series of bulletins designed to complement our traditional data releases. The American Community Survey (ACS) is a continuous household survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau that will replace the long-form of the ...Contributing organization(s): Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
The overall goal of this project is to foster communication, coordination and consistency between the goals and policies of the regional land use and transportation plans and economic development strategies among economic development and planning agency staff in southeaste...Contributing organization(s): Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
DVRPC has a long history of public involvement in its plans and programs, beginning in the 1970s when federal mandates outlined the basics of citizen involvement. In 2001, the DVRPC Board adopted a Public Participation Plan, which was designed for DVRPC's Board, staff and ...Contributing organization(s): Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
This report, funded by the William Penn Foundation, and developed by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, looks at the state of civic design in Philadelphia in 2007 and makes recommendations as to how the City can strengthen its own functions to improve the qu...