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Cut'n'Paste Cities and "Design a Livable Street" - fun interactivity

June 26, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
cities, community, photography, smartercities, smartgrowth

     Cut'n'Paste Cities is a web-based participatory project that invites readers to share what they like best (and least) about cities, through their own photographs: "A global call to action and an invitation to urban dwellers to describe through photography...continued

What traffic congestion looks like from above

May 14, 2009

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

Tags:
bennychan, congestion, gridlock, losangeles, photography, smartgrowth, sprawl, traffic

    From Good magazine comes this introduction to Benny Chan's stunning photography: "Rush hour in Los Angeles is synonymous with gridlock, but the sheer enormity of the situation can be tough to grasp. Fortunately, there is the architecture photographer...continued

50 strange buildings of the world (but are they LEED-certified?)

November 18, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
architecture, baskethouse, crookedhouse, holehouse, houseattack, photography, strangebuildings, waldspiral

  My colleague Gaby Chaverria has pointed me, and now I point you, to "50 Strange Buildings of the World," brought to us by the folks at Village of Joy ("Amazing, Interesting, Wonderful, Weird, Odd and Funny things about our...continued

Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point

October 30, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
aerialphotography, alexmaclean, americanlandscape, photography, sprawl

  When NRDC moved into its then-new Washington office in 1996, a number of large new photographs were mounted on the walls.  No one I know is quite sure where they came from (and I was on the art and...continued

A world-class city at its vibrant best: stunning photographs of London

September 24, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
cities, jasonhawkes, London, photography

  Anyone who has visited knows what a great city London is, in many ways a collection of highly urban villages, but with obvious concentrations of economic activity and architecture.  I'm not going to go into policy analysis in this...continued

Chris Jordan’s art: crushed cars, 1.14 million supermarket bags, and more

April 29, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably

Tags:
art, chrisjordan, consumption, photography

 Chris Jordan thinks big, and he wants us to think big, too.   He makes large-scale fine art photographs of American mass consumption, the losses from Hurricane Katrina, and more.   Have you ever wondered what the number of plastic drink bottles...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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