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2007 WMRUD Charrette Resources
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www.gvaia.org
| American Institute of Architects, Grand Valley Chapter
Official home page for the WMRUD Charrette. Visit this site for RFP information and Proposal Applications.
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www.wm-alliance.org
| West Michigan Strategic Alliance
Regional catalyst for collaboration. Initiatives include Green Infrastructure, WIRED, and Regional Indicators.
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www.earth-policy.org
| Earth Policy Institute
Dedicated to providing a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy.
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www.rmi.org
| Rocky Mountain Institute
Efficient and restorative use of resources to enhance natural and human capital, and increase profit and competitive advantage.
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www.landpolicy.msu.edu
| Michigan State University's Land Policy Institute
Leading the way to a better quality of life for Michigan's citizens through effective, science-based solutions to land use challenges.
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www.peopleandland.org
| People and Land
A fundraising Source for organizations working in land use education, PAL seeks to raise awareness and inform the land usse debate in Michigan to help find common ground among diverse interests.
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Contours, Aerial Photographs
Holland Aerial Photo Archive
Grandwalk Aerial Photo Archive
Muskegon Aerial Photo Archive
Sample: One of the best comprehensive databases for GIS/Mapping aerial topographic and satellite imagery: Many Links. http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/
Sample: http://www.gvmc.org REGIS: Another really good database
Sample: Image viewer http://www.globexplorer.com/
Combination Sites (Info, maps, demographics, infrastructure, etc)
Sample: Grand Rapids Master Plan http://www.grand-rapids.mi.us/index.pl?page_id=632
Sample: Grand Rapids Specific http://www.gvsu.edu/philanthropy/cri/ Community Research Institute
Sample: GIS Geographic Information Systems: City of Portage http://www.portagemi.com/government/gis_mapping.asp
Flood Plains
Sample: Flood Plain Check through DEQ portal
http://store.msc.fema.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/FemaWelcomeView?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&langId=-1
Census/ Demographics Trends
Sample: http://www.upjohninst.org/ Census Data/Maps
Sample: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html US Census Bureau
Sample: http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/index.html GIS/Mapping layering Data
http://www.cyburbia.org/
http://www.designcenter.umn.edu/
http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/index.html
(Univ. of Washington, Depts. of Architecture & Art History) "Contains over 5000 images ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages, to the Parc de la Villette, and conceptual sketches and models of Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project. These have all been scanned from original slides or drawn from documents in the public domain."
http://www.cnu.org/
http://www.cities21.org/
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings.html
http://www.nbm.org/
http://grist.org/
http://www.stapletondenver.com/main.asp
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