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Brookings: The suburbs as we think of them are vanishing

January 23, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably

Tags:: brookings, brucekatz, community, housingcrisis, poverty, smartgrowth, suburbs

Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley of the Brookings Institution's fantastic Metropolitan Policy Program have a provocative article in the current Newsweek about how suburbs have transformed, and so must our attempts to address their needs. The image, say the...continued→

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We’re driving less, and it’s time for our infrastructure and built environment to adapt to the new paradigm

December 19, 2008

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

Tags:: brookings, driving, infrastructure, smartgrowth, sprawl, stimulus, VMT

I've written in here before that I believe that the era of unbridled sprawl and skyrocketing driving rates is over. The demise won't come cleanly and certainly not uniformly, but it is happening. The latest confirmation comes from our...continued→

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: 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...; more→

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