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Really fun short video about sprawl and urbanism

May 11, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cnu, community, culdesac, markettransformation, neighborhood, newurbanism, smartgrowth, sprawl

OK, the rhetoric is occasionally over the top, but that's part of the fun.  This little three-minute film, which won a contest sponsored by the Congress for the New Urbanism, is really entertaining:    Here's a bit more about the film, which...continued

DO go back to Rock-vi-ille . . .

December 12, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
charteraward, cnu, LEED-ND, leedforneighborhooddevelopment, redevelopment, rockvillepike, rockvilletownsquare, smartgrowth, transitorienteddevelopment, twinbrookstation

  Every time I hear R.E.M.'s catchy hit single from the 1980s, "Don't Go Back to Rockville," the visual images that crop up could hardly be worse.  The song refers to Rockville, Maryland, along with Tysons Corner one of the DC...continued

Affordable housing without the stigma: it's all in the detail

May 27, 2008

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

Tags:
affordable, affordablehousing, architecture, cnu, community, neighborhood, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl

 I know it may shock readers to learn this, but I am not a regular reader of the Financial Times.  I do kind of like its flesh-colored visual tone, though, and my first-language reading options have been limited while in...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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