A list of articles and other resources to help those involved in redevelopment and planning craft an effective communications strategy to maximize the chances of a successful outcome.

1. New Jersey Future Redevelopment Forum 2012
Communications Strategy workshop resources
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations:
Transportation funding: Move to undercut transit right out of the Tea Party’s playbook
Agenda 21: The end of Western Civilization:
Consider the Source: Smart Growth vs. Freedom Advocates:
Debating Smart Growth:
Why NIMBYs could be calling the shots on how our city is planned and built:
Like scary reads? Try Agenda 21
APA warns of orchestrated attacks against planners:
Why planners need to take Agenda 21 seriously
Activists fight green projects, seeing U.N. plot
VIDEO: Agenda 21 for public officials. (This speaker is making a lot of appearances in front of county and local
government officials in New Jersey)
Westminster (MD) Patch liveblog of county commissioners hearing on PlanMD
VIDEO: Carroll County, MD, work session to eliminate smart-growth references from county master plan (long;
jump to 1:07 to get to the master plan part of the work session)
What happens when the tea party takes over county politics
County official extols the virtues of sprawl
Getting Ahead of the Opposition: Planning magazine (pdf) and Engaging Cities
Crowdsourced in Connecticut (pdf) (about Renaissance Downtowns’ crowdsourced-placemaking initiative in
Bristol, CT)