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In improving communities, small steps can make a big difference

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

City living in an age of hyper-security: it’s not what it used to be

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

Streets for people work for cities

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

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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