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How Smart Is Your City?

July 14, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably

Tags:
greenliving, planning, smartercities, transit, transportation, urbanism

Last week, Time magazine asked, "Why Are Southerners So Fat?" There's no simple answer, of course. Poverty, culture and climate all play a role in the South's high obesity rates. But one factor that's increasingly blamed by everyone from medical...continued

What's 'smart growth'? New web tool can help communities get the picture

January 21, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
charlotte, development, growth, neighborhoods, planning, smartercities, smartgrowth, transit

"Smart growth" isn't an easy term to explain. And I speak from experience here. For several years, I covered the growth and development beat at The Charlotte Observer, at a time when Charlotte, N.C., was one of the fastest-growing places...continued

Live from New York: It's Google Transit!

September 23, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
bicycling, google, newyorkcity, subways, transit, transportation

Two years after moving to the city, one of the things that helps me feel more like a real New Yorker is when out-of-towners stop me on the street or the subway and I'm able to give them detailed directions....continued

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