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You might as well begin with with Opticos, Daniel Parolek, and the Form-Based Codes Institute (FBCI).

Daniel is the founding principal of Opticos; he is an architect, urbanist, and coauthor of the first comprehensive book on form-based codes, Form-Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers (John Wiley & Sons, 2008); and he is the founding board member of the FBCI.

The FBCI has developed a curriculum of workshops and webinars. They are offering an upcoming webinar on designing hybrid form-based and use-based codes, July 27, (go to Linked-In page or email alan@formbasedcodes.org).

The publisher’s summary of the book says the following:

A recent post on the APA SCP Interest Group Linked In site asking for recommendations for other planning visualization tools “that will allow a dense, complex plan to be easily communicated to its citizens in a highly interactive and visually engaging way, showing goals, strategies, implementation steps and performance indicators along with actions the reader can take to help support the plan.”

Sustainability 2030 Clips cross post: Is Global Civilization Failing and is there Hope? Yes to Both!

Sustainability 2030 Clips cross post:  SF Tops Siemen’s US-Canada 2011 Green City Index

The Sustainable Cities Institute (Home Depot) offers a range of resources to support a community’s progress towards sustainability.

One interesting current case is Ann Arbor’s Journey because their situation is likely similar to many cities who have many disparate sustainability initiatives on the ground, but they are uncoordinated or only loosely so.