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These are a few of my favorite . . . places!

December 22, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

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arlington, asheville, atlantabeltline, community, greensburg, hackeschehofe, highpoint, mixson, neighborhoods, oldnorth, projectrowhouses, smartgrowth, stationparkgreen, washingtondc, wattshouseproject

  Herewith, readers, some of my very favorite smart, livable places that are contributing positively to the environment, as I've written about them over the past year.  When NRDC's Ian Wilker first approached me about blogging, I'm sure that neither...continued

Green, affordable, walkable, beautiful: Seattle’s High Point neighborhood

December 1, 2008

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

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affordable, community, greenbuilding, highpoint, HOPE-VI, mithun, neighborhood, newurbanism, redevelopment, seattle, smartgrowth, walkability

    HOPE VI is by far my favorite government housing assistance program.  Few in my world know how it got its name (Housing Opportunity for People Everywhere, Title VI - thanks, Payton), but we all know its mission of...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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