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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

Planning for School Growth Should Be Elementary

June 3, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably

Tags:
charlotte, newyorkcity, planning, schools, smartercities, smartgrowth, urbanism

New York magazine featured a great story last week on school overcrowding in Manhattan. What struck me -- aside from concerns about how my own kid might fare -- was this passage about the city's failure to anticipate that New...continued

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