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• Smart growth improves air quality, says new research (May 7, 2008)
• Neighborhood food choices may affect your health (May 6, 2008)
• Five more green apples for NYC (May 1, 2008)
• How to go green, according to architects (April 30, 2008)
• Chris Jordan’s art: crushed cars, 1.14 million supermarket bags, and more (April 29, 2008)
• Paradise Paved - "Discover Kauai" (April 28, 2008)
• Pay as you drive – too sensible for America? (April 26, 2008)
• How location affects home affordability, illustrated (April 21, 2008)
• More on declining home prices and sprawl (April 21, 2008)
• Smart locations fare better as home prices plummet, foreclosures rise (April 20, 2008)
• If cars were like computers (April 17, 2008)
• Green roofs and green parking garages – parking garages? (April 16, 2008)
• The hidden cost of “affordability” (April 14, 2008)
• Two Wheels Good (April 10, 2008)
• Who's your city? (April 9, 2008)
• Another vote for small-city smart growth (April 6, 2008)
• Communities remember (April 4, 2008)
• Norm Berg, conservationist extraordinaire, 1918-2008 (April 2, 2008)
• Greening LA (March 31, 2008)
• Lemons to lemonade: turning foreclosed homes into workforce housing (March 31, 2008)
• Play ball! (March 27, 2008)
• Sprawl is slowing, part 2: reducing the footprint of growth (March 26, 2008)
• The infrastructure crisis: fix it first, fund it, and be strategic (March 25, 2008)
• Green building can stop climate change - IF in the right places (March 20, 2008)
• Candor from Wal-Mart? (March 19, 2008)
• We’re making a difference: sprawl is slowing as smart growth catches on (March 18, 2008)
• The country’s best smart growth project – the Atlanta Beltline (March 14, 2008)
• Think globally, act regionally: large-scale sustainability planning (March 12, 2008)
• Beneath the Roses – unsentimental small-town America (March 10, 2008)
• Trouble the Water – a note from NOLA (March 9, 2008)
• Low country leadership on smart growth (March 3, 2008)
• Cities: a smart alternative to cars? (February 29, 2008)
• High-school teacher spreads the word on climate change (February 29, 2008)
• tick tock, goes the (world) clock (February 28, 2008)
• Pocket-sized smart growth (February 26, 2008)
• Coal miner’s granddaughter (February 24, 2008)
• Should we have to pay to drive downtown? It depends. (February 22, 2008)
• The next slums? Foreclosures, demographics, crime trends don't portend well for sprawl (February 19, 2008)
• On Valentine’s, we (heart) these smart-growth cities (February 14, 2008)
• Another lesson from les bastides (February 13, 2008)
• Vive les bastides – medieval planned communities (February 12, 2008)
• Sprawl and the Southeastern drought (February 8, 2008)
• “Super” site sports super sprawl (January 31, 2008)
• First bathwater, then baby: NIMBYs win in Lancaster, but to what end? (January 30, 2008)
• This just in: sprawl is ugly (January 27, 2008)
• New urbanists show us the numbers for smart growth (January 25, 2008)
• Smart means inclusive (January 22, 2008)
• Solving sprawl with basketball (January 18, 2008)
• Small-city smart growth: you can’t go home again – or can you? (part 2) (January 15, 2008)
• Small-city smart growth: you can’t go home again - or can you? (part 1) (January 14, 2008)
• A follow-up on Sir Edmund, and also on driving while distracted (January 13, 2008)
• R.I.P. Sir Edmund, 1919-2008 (January 11, 2008)
• Hang up and drive already (January 7, 2008)
• The kids are alright - Smart Growth America grabs a good one (January 4, 2008)
• The mortgage crunch is good for us. Really. (January 2, 2008)
• Some end-of-year tributes – raise a glass of nog or grog to three good ones (December 21, 2007)
• Beyond the energy bill: on to transportation (December 19, 2007)
• The coolest spots for neighborhood development (December 14, 2007)
• LULUs, NIMBYs, and BANANAs: just say no to just saying NOPE (December 12, 2007)
• Communities for all ages (December 9, 2007)
• The convenient solution to the inconvenient truth (December 6, 2007)
• Discover your neighborhood’s walkability score! (December 4, 2007)
• You MUST check out this hilarious video! (December 3, 2007)
• Bye, bye, birdie (November 30, 2007)
• Made in the shade – trees and walkable streets (November 29, 2007)
• Sean Taylor, 1983-2007 (November 27, 2007)
• Sprawl-Mart, part two (November 26, 2007)
• A big turkey to Sprawl-Mart (November 21, 2007)
• And the Scully goes to . . . (November 19, 2007)
• density + parks = smart (November 15, 2007)
• Another take on Brutalism (November 12, 2007)
• "Brutal" preservation (November 7, 2007)
• Wheels when I want 'em (November 5, 2007)
• Best-laid plans: Ontario gets it right on growth (November 1, 2007)
• The night the 'burbs come to town (October 31, 2007)
• When a "green building" really is: it's the location, stupid (October 26, 2007)
• Architecture matters (October 25, 2007)