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As a city neighborhood should be: Hackesche Hofe

May 22, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
community, mixeduse, neighborhood, publictransportation, transit, urbanplanning, walkable

 Is it urbanist, or just urban? Or just exceptionally pleasant?  East Berlin's Hackesche Hofe represents many of the things we want our city neighborhoods to be - architecturally impressive yet low-key; a place for living, shopping, playing, and visiting; highly walkable...continued

Greening LA

March 31, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
architecture, cities, community, ecology, losangeles, urbanplanning

I'm so looking forward to reading Occidental College prof Robert Gottlieb's latest book, Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press, 2007).  It promises as much cultural as environmental enlightenment, examining, as the publisher puts it,...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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