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Federal officials, other leaders stress “sustainable communities” at national planning forum

November 5, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
communities, housing, planning, smartercities, smartgrowth, sustainable, transportation

  "Sustainable communities" was the phrase of the day at the annual symposium of the American Institute of Certified Planners, held last week at the National Building Museum.  Federal officials from the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development...continued

Edge city makeover: Can Tysons Corner go from sow’s ear to silk purse?

May 29, 2008

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

Tags:
community, congestion, edgecity, publictransit, smartgrowth, sprawl, suburbs, sustainable, traffic, walkability

 The Washington Post has a story today on page one (above the fold, for you media junkies, and you know who you are) about plans to make a real city out of the mess now known as Tysons Corner in...continued

How smart is your city?

May 13, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cities, driving, green-cities, publictransportation, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl, sustainability, sustainable, transitorienteddevelopment, walkable

  After so many wonky posts in a row, this time I'm going to lighten up with one of those fun internet quizzes that I can do more or less all day when I have something I want to procrastinate.  This...continued

Cities: a smart alternative to cars?

February 29, 2008

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

Tags:
community, development, smartgrowth, sprawl, sustainable

  You have to know that smart growth is making more and more sense to more and more of the right people when it shows up in Business Week.  And on the website of that venerable and most mainstream of publications, Alex Steffen...continued

tick tock, goes the (world) clock

February 28, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
carbon, development, emissions, globalwarming, population, sustainable

 If you know anyone who is still in denial that growth is real and that we had better get our act together quickly in figuring out how to live and develop sustainably, send them to Peter Russell's World Clock.  The...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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