Urban and rural Communities
| Action with Communities in Rural England is the national association of Rural Community Councils whose shared purpose is to improve the quality of life of local communities, and particularly of disadvantaged people in rural England. ACRE's aim is to facilitate the development of thriving, diverse and sustainable communities throughout rural England. The website includes details on projects, press releases, events, resources and publications. |  | UK |
| Action for Market Towns is a membership organisation that exists to promote the vitality and viability of small towns, helping them to tackle the challenges they face and providing a national focus for critical issues. |  | UK |
| Chapelford aims to combine agreed planning, employment and community objectives that will be translated into a high quality development. This will provide a substantial asset to the local community and to Warrington and can act as a role model for development elsewhere. |  | UK |
| CDF aims to help communities achieve greater control over the conditions and decisions affecting their lives. The organisation runs a national training programme for managers and community development practitioners. Features useful information on community development practice. |  | UK |
| CDX is the UK-wide membership organisation for community development. CDX works to ensure that community development (CD) is recognised and supported as a powerful way of tackling inequality and achieving social justice. Features regional links and useful resources. |  | UK |
| Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment. Community Planning is an essential starting point for everyone concerned. It provides easily accessible how-to-do-it best practice information of international scope and relevance. |  | UK |
| Website for the 'Design for a Greater London' Campaign. Includes a full report intended to contribute to the ideas on architecture and urban design being debated by the Mayor and the Greater London Authority. |  | UK |
| GreenSpace Online is the website for GreenSpace incorporating Urban Parks Forum. GreenSpace aims to be the UK's leading advocate for better planned, designed, managed parks, gardens and green spaces. |  | UK |
| Ground work is a leading environmental regeneration charity, aiming to build sustainable communities through joint action. The website features profiles of the regional groundwork trusts and useful policy & research documents. |  | UK |
| Heritage Link is a national organisations including the National Trust, Civic Trust, Council for British Archaeology, Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) as well as many smaller and more specialised heritage groups. |  | UK |
| Home Zones The aim of this web site is to act as a central forum and information point for the Home Zones concept. You can use this site to view other Home Zones, to find out about supporting legislation and get advice on setting up a Home Zone. |  | UK INT |
| Its Your Space is a website launched by Cabe Space which aims to inform and inspire all sections of the community about public space. Illustrated examples of the best and the worst spaces are given and ways in which everyone can get involved. |  | UK |
| ICONdirect is a website devoted to the International Construction and Development Community. It brings construction companies, their professional advisers and their representative bodies together in a single community of interest. |  | INT |
| Living Streets formerly known as the Pedestrians Association, is committed to its campaign to win back the streets for everybody. It has been closely involved in the Home Zones and Walk to School initiatives. The website includes downloadable briefing documents such as the one recently published called Streets of fear or streets of fun? The role of streets in building, or destroying, communities. It also acts as a information point for local community initiatives. |  | UK |
| London 21 Sustainability Network promotes, supports and networks community-based initiatives for a greener, healthier, and more sustainable London. Features a range of case studies as well as invaluable advice on setting up and running community projects for sustainability. |  | UK |
| The National Federation of City Farms is at the hub of the City Farming movement in Great Britain. Their mission is to promote and support sustainable regeneration through community managed farming and gardening. |  | UK |
| National Main Street Center is a complete resource for downtown revitalization programs. |  | USA |
National Rural Enterprise Centre The Centre promotes a living and working countryside, finding new ways of work to help rural communities improve and strengthen their local economies. The site hosts InfoRurale which seeks to provide a first-stop-shop for those involved in rural development action in the United Kingdom and RuralNet which provides the latest communications technology for grass-roots rural development organisations. |  | UK |
| Open Space is the research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments in association with Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art and the School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University. |  | UK |
| The Sustainable Communities Network is for those who want to help make their communities more livable. Here a broad range of issues are addressed and resources are provided to help make this happen. This web site is being developed to increase the visibility of what has worked for other communities, and to promote a lively exchange of information to help create community sustainability in both urban and rural areas. |  | USA |
