skip to main content

Natural Resources Defense Council

Switchboard

Kaid Benfield's Blog

Tags: paris

What makes the Jardin du Luxembourg work so well?

September 16, 2009

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

Tags:
jardinduluxembourg, landscapearchitecture, paris, parks, smartercities, smartgrowth

  By the time you read this, yours truly will be in Paris, and not for work, thank you very much.  We always make a point of staying within easy walking distance of Paris's wonderful park, the Jardin du Luxembourg. ...continued

Bus rapid transit: c'est la bonne vie!

October 3, 2008

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

Tags:
BRT, busrapidtransit, cities, lemobilien, paris, publictransportation, streetfilms

  "Bus rapid transit" sounds like an oxymoron, especially to US residents.  But that needn't be the case, as this great little film on the system in Paris demonstrates:     Filmmaker Elizabeth Press of the Livable Streets network and...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...
more

Switchboard Archives

Kaid Benfield's archives