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Which US cities have the greenest commuting habits?

October 2, 2009

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

Tags:
census, commuting, modes, smartercities, smartgrowth, transportation

Big-time kudos to Bike Pittsburgh for combing through new census data to extract and rank the commuting habits of the 60 largest US cities.  The data chart on the organization's website, naturally, opens up with the ranking of bicycle commuting: ...continued

New census numbers confirm that sprawl is losing its grip

March 19, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
census, landuse, markettransformation, smartgrowth, sprawl

I've written about this before, but this week there's new evidence that sprawl is on the decline, and more people are getting it.  There are quite a few news stories this morning about the latest census data, but I'll link...continued

America’s poorest and wealthiest big cities

September 16, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably

Tags:
andrewmacurak, census, cities, disinvestment, poverty, rustbelt, sprawl, sunbelt, wealth

Andrew Macurak has a good post on the National Housing Institute's Rooflines blog about the latest census rankings of poor and wealthy cities: "The U.S. Census Bureau recently released Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data from the 2007 American Community Survey,...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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