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Planning with Legos(r) – or, I may not like reality, but I love Reality Check

March 13, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
community, neighborhood, realitycheck, regionalplanning, smartgrowth, uli, urbanlandinstitute

Most of us love to gripe about development, traffic, and sprawl, and some of us even love to complain about the development activities of nearby churches and schools.  But what if the same folks who complain had to confront a specified influx of...continued

An in-depth look at location, transportation, and affordability (Part 2: real-world comparisons)

February 18, 2009

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

Tags:
affordablehousing, community, driving, locationefficiency, smartgrowth, transportationcosts, urbanlandinstitute, washingtondc

My wonky post continues . . . Yesterday I wrote about a remarkable, data-rich new study from the Urban Land Institute (in partnership with the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the Center for Housing Policy) analyzing the impact of location...continued

An in-depth look at location, transportation, and affordability (Part 1: ULI analyzes a metro region)

February 17, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably

Tags:
affordablehousing, community, driving, locationefficiency, smartgrowth, transportationcosts, urbanlandinstitute, washingtondc

  Warning:  very wonky post coming up. Last year, I posted a couple of times (here and here) about how the costs of driving turn what one might think are affordable areas to live into expensive ones.  The Center for...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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