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These are a few of my favorite . . . places!

December 22, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

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arlington, asheville, atlantabeltline, community, greensburg, hackeschehofe, highpoint, mixson, neighborhoods, oldnorth, projectrowhouses, smartgrowth, stationparkgreen, washingtondc, wattshouseproject

  Herewith, readers, some of my very favorite smart, livable places that are contributing positively to the environment, as I've written about them over the past year.  When NRDC's Ian Wilker first approached me about blogging, I'm sure that neither...continued

Small-city smart growth: you can’t go home again – or can you? (part 2)

January 15, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

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adaptivereuse, architecture, asheville, development, infill, mixeduse, newurbanism, smartgrowth

 So, as I was writing yesterday, when the economy was ready, so was Asheville’s downtown.    They did it right.  Today, most all the places I knew as a kid are still there, but now serving 21st-century functions:  I can...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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