Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Cool Town Studios has a very interesting new blog post about an award-winning development called The Rise in Vancouver. Although the project is anchored by big-box retail, the parking is underground, there are 90 homes above, the...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 Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably
Can a Walmart anchor transit-oriented revitalization? Charlotte city council member Nancy Carter seems to think so. From News 14 Carolina's web site: "Soon, the boarded-up store fronts and run-down parking lots that make up the mostly vacant Amity...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Is it any wonder that neighbors continue to oppose density (oops, I meant "compact development") when this is what we have been giving them? We smart growth advocates have gotten lazy. The issue has evolved in the last decade but,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
As reported by the Pegasus News Wire: "The 45-mile Green, Orange and Blue Line DART Rail expansion is projected to generate more than $4 billion in economic activity between 2009 and 2014, according to a new study by...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I just ran across a very provocative report assessing the response of 40 large US cities to climate change. Published a couple of months ago by the philanthropic collaborative Living Cities, the report Green Cities: How Urban Sustainability Efforts Can...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
One of DC's best stories of revitalization-in-the-making is the Columbia Heights neighborhood, north of downtown. In this terrific video produced by the National Building Museum and narrated by my friend Harriet Tregoning, head of the DC Office of Planning, see how...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
If you start mulling through the literature of academic research and writing on the relationship between land use and transportation, one of the first and most frequent names you will encounter is that of Robert Cervero of UC-Berkeley. (Go here...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
A while back I wrote about the home being built in Kansas City from industrial shipping containers, which is an amazing concept for recycling. I subsequently learned that there is a whole movement afoot, and yesterday I stumbled across some...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Back in October, I wrote about the who-would-have-predicted-it greening of Charlotte, for decades North Carolina's notorious bastion of sprawl. But, as the articles I referenced then indicated, there's plenty of evidence. And now there is a great narrated slide...continued→
