Unsprawl

BioMap2 Conservation Road Map

BioMap2 Conservation Road Map

Unsprawl Case Study by Henry Woolsey, Andy Finton, James DeNormandie, and Sarah Haggerty

BioMap2 is designed to guide strategic biodiversity conservation in Massachusetts over the next decade by focusing land protection and stewardship on the areas that are most critical for ensuring the long-term persistence of rare and other native species and their habitats, exemplary natural communities, and a diversity of ecosystems. BioMap2 is also designed to include the habitats and species of conservation concern identified in Massachusetts’s State Wildlife Action Plan.

Downtown Silver Spring

Downtown Silver Spring

By John Marcolin

Re-envisioned, redeveloped Downtown Silver Spring lies at the heart of the Silver Spring central business district (CBD), an unincorporated, 250-acre transit-oriented urban area located just northeast of Washington, D.C., in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Serenbe

Serenbe

By Megan Kimble

Be Serene—combine the two words and you get Serenbe, a 1,000-acre community that integrates the lush landscape of the Georgia countryside with a compact, environmentally-oriented mixed-use development of three hamlets: Selborne, Grange, and Mado.