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Agri-sprawl: "farming is the new golf"

April 21, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

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agriculture, community, conservation, farmland, localfood, neighborhood, newtowns, smartgrowth, sprawl, urbanism

  I want you to bear with me today, because this one is going to be a little long. America's best farmland is in trouble, and will only be in more trouble when the recovery comes.  The American Farmland Trust,...continued

The World’s Best Job (hint: it involves placemaking, but not in the US)

November 19, 2008

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

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architecture, hankdittmar, newtowns, planning, poundbury, princecharles, princeofwales, princesfoundation, revitalization, smartgrowth, sustainablecommunities

  A few years ago, my friend and then-transportation-guru Hank deserted those of us who had befriended him in DC and scampered off to New Mexico, where he had some property, and built an organization that became Reconnecting America.  Shortly...continued

Retrofitting suburbia for the 21st century (part 2: Columbia and Reston)

October 8, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

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automobiledependence, columbiamaryland, newtowns, reston, smartgrowth, sprawl, tysonscorner

  As I wrote yesterday, environmental and economic forces are requiring that suburbs become more walkable, more transit-accessible, and more convenient than we have typically seen in the last 50 years.  Yesterday we considered the new plan for Tysons Corner,...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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