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Boston’s Asian CDC builds community from the ground up

September 1, 2009

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

Tags:
affordablehousing, asian, boston, chinatown, community, development, neighborhood, smartercities, smartgrowth

  Every summer, Boston's Asian Community Development Corporation has been hosting an informal grassroots Asian film festival in a vacant lot near the city's Chinatown Gate.  The final night this year (above) was held in the nearby Chinatown Park.  As...continued

MetroPeds brings human-powered cargo delivery to Boston

December 29, 2008

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

Tags:
bicycling, boston, deliveryservice, metropedalpower, newamsterdamproject, wenzdayjane

  Metro Pedal Power bills itself as a "Boston area work-cycles and human-powered delivery service," committed to providing customers with first-rate, personal service while reducing truck traffic and emissions.  That's a pretty interesting conceptual start for the company previously known...continued

Urban confusion: just gimmee some kind of sign, girl

October 9, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield

Tags:
boston, confusingsigns, trafficsigns

  But not this one, thanks: This great photo of signage in Boston comes to us via the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association.  ...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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