Planning & Design

• 10 Thousand Friends - Friends works with citizens, organizations and public officials to create land use, infrastructure and governance policies and practices that protect our resources and strengthen our economy.
• American Planning Association – PA Chapter
• Community Design Center of Pittsburgh - a non-profit organization that improves quality of life through good design of the built environment.
• PA Downtown Center - Statewide nonprofit dedicated solely to the revitalization of the commonwealth's 'core' communities.
• Place Matters - This database website is a resource for communities (their professional planners, public agencies, and concerned citizens) to identify tools and processes for better community design and decision-making.
• Planetizen - A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning, design, and development community. It is a one-stop source for urban planning news, commentary, interviews, event coverage, book reviews, announcements, jobs, consultant listings, training, and more.
• Project for Public Places - a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public places that build communities.

Historic & Cultural

• Historic Preservation Tax Incentives
• Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation
• PA Historical & Museum Commission
• Preservation PA
• Young Preservationists

Economic Development

• Allegheny Conference
• Allegheny County Economic Development
• Allegheny Together Program
• Mon Valley Initiative
• Pittsburgh Regional Alliance
• Southwestern PA Commission

Housing

• Allegheny County Housing Authority
• Allegheny County Housing Division
• McKeesport Housing Authority
• Pittsburgh Housing Authority
• US Housing & Urban Development

Parks, Open Space, and Greenways

• Allegheny County Parks Master Plan 2001
• Allegheny Land Trust
• Chartiers Nature Conservancy
• Erie to Pittsburgh Trail Alliance
• Friends of the Riverfront
• Fox Chapel Area Land Trust
• Hollow Oak Land Trust
• PA Land Trust Association
• Pine Creek Land Conservation Trust
• Pittsburgh to Harrisburg Mainline Canal Greenway
• Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy
• Rails-to-Trails
• Riverlife
• The Conservation Fund
• The Great Allegheny Passage
• The Montour Trail
• The Scott Conservancy
• Turtle Creek Greenway Plan – The TCGP area encompasses approximately 6 miles of the Turtle Creek stream valley beginning at Duff Park in the Municipality of Murrysville, continuing through Penn Township and the Municipality of Monroeville, and ending in Trafford Borough. The completed plan outlines strategies to establish and preserve the Turtle Creek Greenway as a natural and recreational area. The Plan was spearheaded by the Regional Trail Corporation with the hope of eventually extending the Westmoreland Heritage Trail through the Greenway. To download chapters of the Turtle Creek Greenway Plan, please click below:
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  • Cover_Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1 – Background
  • Chapter 2 – Inventory
  • Chapter 2 – Maps
  • Chapter 3 – Landowners
  • Chapter 3 – Tables_Maps
  • Chapter 4 – Implementation
  • Map 4.1 – Implementation Map
  • Appendices

Agriculture

• Allegheny County Conservation District
• PA Association for Sustainable Agriculture
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences
• Penn State Cooperative Extension
• Penn's Corner
• Allegheny County Agricultural Land Preservation Program

Resource Extraction

• Abandoned Mine Drainage
  • http://www.chartiersgreenway.net/
  • National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs
• Marcellus Shale
  • DEP Office of Oil & Gas Management
  • http://naturalgas.extension.psu.edu/

Transportation

• Bike Pittsburgh
• Center for Transit Oriented Development
• Complete Streets
• Port Authority Bus Rapid Transit
• Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
• West Busway Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Assessment and Plan

Environmental Resources

• Montour Run Watershed Assn.
• Nine Mile Run Watershed Assn.
• PA DEP Stormwater Management Page
• PA Environmental Council, Southwest Region
• PennFuture
• Pennsylvania Outdoor Lighting Council
• Peters Creek Watershed Assn.
• Raccoon Creek Watershed Assn.
• Regional Water Management Task Force (University of Pittsburgh)
• Streets Run Watershed Assn.
• Stormwater Journal
• Three Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Program
• Turtle Creek Watershed Assn.
• Western PA Conservancy

Energy/Sustainability

• Green Building Alliance
• Sustainable Pittsburgh