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Urban Policy Updates

These brochures focus on the key Good Neighbor principles, explaining to both internal and external audiences the "why and how" of incorporating these principles into PBS business practices.

• Urban Policy Update Issue 1
  Focus on: Locating in Historic Buildings in Central Cities--Executive Order 13006
• Urban Policy Update Issue 2
  Focus on: Downtown Improvement Strategies--BIDs and Other Tools

e-TOOLS

• Inventory of Owned and Leased Properties

REFERENCE

• Executive Order 13006
• Executive Order 12072
• Competition in Contracting Act of 1984
• National Historic Preservation Act
• Rural Development Act of 1972
• National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

RELATED GSA TOPICS

• Property Disposal

GOVERNMENT LINKS

• Official Federal Government Websites
• The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• US EPA Smart Growth and Communities
• US House of Representative Livable Communities Task Force

NONGOVERNMENT LINKS

• PPS - Project for Public Spaces
• IDA - International Downtown Association
• PLANetizen
• National Main Street Center
• APA - American Planning Association
• ASLA - American Society of Landscape Architects
• AIA - American Institute of Architects
• Center for Neighborhood Technology
• Civic Strategies
• IEDC - International Economic Development Council
• Places - Forum of Environmental Design
• Smart Growth Network