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October 29, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- bryantpark, community, neighborhood, parks, publicspaces, smartercities, smartgrowth
Last week, I had the honor of speaking to the Indiana chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects on the subject of sustainable communities. I enjoy this sort of thing, and when I have time - as I did...continued→
July 24, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- cities, community, publicspaces, security, smartercities, smartgrowth, urbanism, walkability
Several times each day, a military helicopter flies over my house. It flies much closer to the ground than other aircraft, and it's seriously noisy. We don't know why, exactly, since in DC you tend just to accept these...continued→
November 21, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
- Tags:
- cities, copenhagen, montreal, pedestrianstreet, publicspaces, ruestecatherine, stroget, walking
Copenhagen (above left) has long reserved its main shopping street for pedestrians, as have other European cities (Galway comes immediately to mind). More recently, Montreal (above right) and even New York have experimented with the idea. Writing...continued→