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More on Charlotte's urban renaissance, stimulated by transit

January 9, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

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Charlotte, lightrail, redevelopment, smartgrowth, transitorienteddevelopment, trolley

  Back in October, I wrote about the who-would-have-predicted-it greening of Charlotte, for decades North Carolina's notorious bastion of sprawl.  But, as the articles I referenced then indicated, there's plenty of evidence.  And now there is a great narrated slide...continued

The greening of Charlotte – Charlotte?

October 9, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
Charlotte, charlotte-mecklenburgplanning, citistatesreport, debracampbell, lightrail, smartgrowth, sprawl, transitorienteddevelopment

  When I was a kid growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, I had a sort of envy/hate thing going on when it came to the state's biggest city, Charlotte.  People in Charlotte had more money, it seemed, and their...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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