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Green, affordable, walkable, beautiful: Seattle’s High Point neighborhood

December 1, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

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affordable, community, greenbuilding, highpoint, HOPE-VI, mithun, neighborhood, newurbanism, redevelopment, seattle, smartgrowth, walkability

    HOPE VI is by far my favorite government housing assistance program.  Few in my world know how it got its name (Housing Opportunity for People Everywhere, Title VI - thanks, Payton), but we all know its mission of...continued

Great work from Boston-based smart growth architects

May 15, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
affordablehousing, architecture, community, HOPE-VI, neighborhood, planning, publictransportation, smart-growth, smartgrowth, transit, transitorienteddevelopment

 My friend David Dixon, and his Boston-based architecture firm, Goody Clancy, has been doing some fabulous smart growth work, and I’m here to give them a well-deserved pat on the back for it.   I mention this because I’m off...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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