Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Tyler Caine has a terrific post on his sustainability blog Intercon extolling climate change policy to get on the smart growth bandwagon. He says it extremely well, so I am just going to quote a few bits and...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The public interest group U.S.PIRG has calculated the day by which residents of America's metro areas will, on average, have earned enough money to pay for their annual transportation costs. If you're lucky, perhaps you live in the San Francisco-Oakland-San...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
There's a substantial body of literature documenting that infrastructure and service costs go up on a per-household and per-capita basis in sprawling neighborhoods where homes and businesses are more spread out and poorly connected. But today, for the first...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Arthur C. (Chris) Nelson, whom people like me cite all the time because he knows so much more about real estate and development trends than we do, has a new book out. Titled A Guide to Impact Fees and...continued→
