Past Projects

Makeover Montgomery 
The National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, the Montgomery County Planning Department and the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of Maryland, co-hosted Makeover Montgomery, a conference focused on sustainable strategies for suburban communities facing demographic shifts, changing housing preferences, and growing infrastructure costs.

Maryland Smart Growth Indicators Project
This project monitored Maryland's performance through eight categories of growth indicators in order to make better progress toward smarter patterns of growth.  

Reality Check Plus
The NCSG and its partners developed and coordinated a series of regional growth visioning exercises conducted in four regions of the State of Maryland as part of an effort to engage the public in a dialog about future growth in the state.

Smart Growth @ 10
The NCSG organized a conference in October 2007 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Maryland's landmark Smart Growth legislation and to address the question if Smart Growth in Maryland has changed the state's development pattern?