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Parks for revitalization - Dr. King would approve, I think

January 19, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably

Tags:
cityparks, communitydevelopment, MartinLutherKing, neighborhood, reinvestment, revitalization

  The image just below, which photographer Bill Lim has made available to us through the wonder of the Creative Commons, is of the beautiful Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial water sculpture in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens.  As we...continued

Smart means inclusive

January 22, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
community, disinvestment, eminentdomain, gentrification, neighborhood, redevelopment, reinvestment, revitalization, smartgrowth, vacantproperties

Because of various remembrances of Dr. King on Monday, I reminded myself that no one has been hurt by sprawl more than low-income, inner-city, frequently minority populations.  When jobs and investment have fled to new pastures (literally), their neighborhoods have...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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