Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
The June 29 issue of Business Week contains a lengthy feature (really a set of features) on what we can expect in the market for US housing between now and 2012. The short-term news for homeowners and builders is pretty...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
While preparing for a presentation, I was reminded that smart growth can and should be implemented step-by-step, and neighborhood-by-neighborhood. It also should be built at a scale and character appropriate to the setting. For example, here's a photo of a...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Katie Worth reports in the San Francisco Examiner that the owners of the Potrero Center strip mall in the city are seeking a planning amendment that will allow them to build several stories of housing on the site, on top of...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Haya El Nasser, who has long covered land development stories for USA Today, has written excellent companion pieces in today’s edition about changing suburbs and cities. The first, nicely displayed on page one, looks at how far-flung suburbs are reinventing themselves to...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Walk Score, the fab and fun folks who use Google Maps data to rate the walkability of locations and neighborhoods (my home address gets an 80 out of a possible 100) has done it again. This time they have ranked the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
We’ve had a long-running conversation within the LEED for Neighborhood Development committee as to whether or not civilian-style development on military bases should be eligible for certification under our system. It has taken me a while, but I’ve come around...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Is it urbanist, or just urban? Or just exceptionally pleasant? East Berlin's Hackesche Hofe represents many of the things we want our city neighborhoods to be - architecturally impressive yet low-key; a place for living, shopping, playing, and visiting; highly walkable...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
We Americans have gotten fat. And we’ve done so to an alarming degree. Sunday’s Washington Post began a five-part series on obesity in children, a particularly serious part of the problem:“In ways only beginning to be understood, being overweight at...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
So, as I was writing yesterday, when the economy was ready, so was Asheville’s downtown. They did it right. Today, most all the places I knew as a kid are still there, but now serving 21st-century functions: I can...continued→
