Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Last week the Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterhouseCoopers released their well-regarded annual analysis, Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010. The report, which has been published for the last 30 years, aims to advise the industry "on where to invest, what...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
I've had a number of posts about the importance of street connectivity in promoting walking and cycling and shortening driving trips. The best of them was Rachel's terrific guest post, explaining the pitfalls when she was a kid trying to...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
According to a Reuters story by Ilaina Jonas: "The vacancy rate at U.S. strip malls reached a 17-year high in the third quarter and mall vacancy was the highest in at least 10 years, reflecting the protracted pull-back by...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
MSN.com has become the latest news outlet to confirm that the ever-outward suburban construction boom that defined US real estate virtually unchallenged for half a century has gone bust, and perhaps not just temporarily. I've been documenting this story...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
As many readers of this blog already know, Orenco Station was built as one of the country's first new, suburban transit-oriented developments. It's on Portland's MAX light rail line in Hillsborough, Oregon, and comprises some 1,850 housing units...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
These amazing images are not photographs but drawings, and not of real places but of imagined ones. What is especially striking to me about Ross Racine's work is how real they seem, and that's not just because of the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Dwell Magazine and Inhabitat.com are currently hosting a very fun exercise called Reburbia, a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs. As explained on the project's website: "In a future where limited natural resources will force us to find...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
In the June 2009 issue of New Urban News, researchers Lawrence Frank and Sarah Kavage report that "location [of a neighborhood] within a region" is a highly significant determinant of residents' travel behavior and, therefore, "containing development at the fringe...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Both of these, with releases timed for this week's Earth Day, look pretty good, if also not exactly uplifting. First, Sprawling From Grace features my friends Shelley Poticha and David Dixon, along with Bill Clinton, Michael Dukakis, James Howard Kunstler and...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I'm on the road today so, rather than generate a new post of my own, I'm going to point you to one that I really like. In particular, The Infrastructurist is running a terrific interview with Chris Leinberger,...continued→
