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The drive-to-lunch syndrome

October 27, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

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automobiledependence, driving, sprawl, tysonscorner

  One of the main differences between a walkable, amenity-rich environment such as the one being created for San Mateo's Station Park Green and automobile-dependent sprawl is that, in the latter, workers have to drive to lunch unless they bring...continued

Retrofitting suburbia for the 21st century (part 2: Columbia and Reston)

October 8, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
automobiledependence, columbiamaryland, newtowns, reston, smartgrowth, sprawl, tysonscorner

  As I wrote yesterday, environmental and economic forces are requiring that suburbs become more walkable, more transit-accessible, and more convenient than we have typically seen in the last 50 years.  Yesterday we considered the new plan for Tysons Corner,...continued

Retrofitting suburbia for the 21st century (part 1: Tysons Corner update)

October 7, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
columbiamaryland, greenbuilding, reston, retrofittingsuburbs, smartgrowth, sprawl, transitorienteddevelopment, tysonscorner

  It is becoming ever more clear that the suburbs of the current century cannot look or function like those of the late twentieth.  Environmental and economic forces both are requiring that communities be more walkable, more transit-accessible, and more convenient...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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