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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→
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→
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→