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City living in an age of hyper-security: it’s not what it used to be

July 24, 2009

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

Tags:
cities, community, publicspaces, security, smartercities, smartgrowth, urbanism, walkability

      Several times each day, a military helicopter flies over my house.  It flies much closer to the ground than other aircraft, and it's seriously noisy.  We don't know why, exactly, since in DC you tend just to accept these...continued

Agri-sprawl: "farming is the new golf"

April 21, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
agriculture, community, conservation, farmland, localfood, neighborhood, newtowns, smartgrowth, sprawl, urbanism

  I want you to bear with me today, because this one is going to be a little long. America's best farmland is in trouble, and will only be in more trouble when the recovery comes.  The American Farmland Trust,...continued

Putting the urb in suburb: "cool downtowns"?

June 12, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
community, downtown, smartgrowth, suburbs, urbanism

 The New York Times has a worthwhile article reporting on a conference of suburban officials and planners promoting the idea of "Creating Cool Downtowns" in the suburbs of New York.“'Young people are moving to Manhattan. They are moving to Brooklyn,' said...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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