Introducing Smart Growth to Texas: Instructor's Guidebook and Participant's Workbook

Smart growth is planned growth that integrates land use and transportation to create urban development that conserves resources and improves quality of life while providing adequate mobility. This presenter's guide is part of workshop materials that assist the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in disseminating information on smart growth principles, practices, and applications to state, regional, local planners, engineers, transportation professionals, and other interested parties. A workshop presentation on smart growth was developed in PowerPoint® form and is included with this guidebook on CD-ROM. A hard copy is available as a participant's workbook. To reinforce the principles of smart growth and to introduce the smart growth design process, the workshop includes a hands-on case study to teach the practical application of smart growth in a simulated situation. Included in the workshop materials are workbooks for the instructor and workshop participants. The purpose of this guidebook is to assist a presenter in preparing and delivering the workshop instruction.