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Retrofitting suburban cul-de-sacs: start with trails

October 22, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

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community, culdesac, neighborhood, smartgrowth, streets, suburbs, tigard, walking

I've had a number of posts about the importance of street connectivity in promoting walking and cycling and shortening driving trips.  The best of them was Rachel's terrific guest post, explaining the pitfalls when she was a kid trying to...continued

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

Rachel explains: "The hidden perils of poorly-connected streets, or why I’m afraid of German Shepherds"

November 25, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

Tags:
community, connectivity, culdesac, leedforneighborhooddevelopment, neigborhood, streetgrid, walkability

  Today I am able to treat you to another guest post by my colleague Rachel Sohmer, who hits it out of the park:  I grew up in a typical subdivision of detached single-family homes built in the 60s, where...

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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