NRDC put together a great video that describes Smart Growth in 30 seconds:
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Atlanta’s Glenwood Park Featured in Video
Posted on May 7, 2010 by Ben Welle
Via Kaid Benfield’s blog, we learned about this great video below promoting smarter growth in the Atlanta area, that features Glenwood Park, a great urban infill neighborhood north of downtown. The video is not about parks, but one can see the role parks play within good development. As Glenwood Park developer Charles Brewer notes, residents [...]
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Smart Growth Means Intelligently Including Parks, Green Features
Posted on April 15, 2010 by Ben Welle
How can parks fit into the smart growth movement? Kaid Benfield, director of NRDC’s Smart Growth Program writes two nice posts about what he calls the environmental paradox of smart growth. He notes in his first post: Environmental impacts will occur with development; to limit them, we must concentrate them, and this can mean increasing [...]
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The Potential of Small Cities
Posted on June 5, 2009 by Ben Welle
Andre Leroux of the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance writes a great piece in Communities & Banking (pdf) on the potential of older, smaller cities in future growth, drawing from work in New England: While sprawl was continuing in many suburbs, smart growth developments nationwide were emulating the traditional patterns of small New England cities, with [...]
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Creating Healthy Communities
Posted on April 10, 2009 by Ben Welle
Dr. Howard Frumpkin of the CDC gives a good speech on the connection of the built environment to public health. The below video is from an event last week at the National Building Museum. more about “Creating Healthy Communities“, posted with vodpod The Museum is now taking questions on-line until April 20th, that Dr. Frumpkin [...]
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Urbanism, Parks Come to Dallas
Posted on April 9, 2009 by Ben Welle
When you think of Dallas, do you think of walkable, nearby urban parks within compact neighborhoods? Maybe not yet — but these are exactly the types of places that are popping up in the “Big D.” The city is building parks in and around its increasingly residential downtown core at a pace seen in few [...]
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The Lorax and the Once-ler: Density & Parks
Posted on March 11, 2009 by Ben Welle
Ed Glaeser has some thoughts on how building compactly is better than sprawl, using a somewhat provocative comparison to the Lorax. In a post on the NY Times Economix blog, he notes: In Dr. Seuss’ environmentalist fable, “The Lorax,” the Once-ler, a budding textile magnate, chops down Truffula to knit “Thneeds.” Over the protests of [...]
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Another Key to Reduced VMT: Walking & Biking Investment
Posted on January 26, 2009 by Ben Welle
This post on ULI’s Ground Floor blog goes into the data showing reductions in vehicle miles traveled, or VMT and increases in transit ridership. Basically, VMT is going down more than transit ridership is growing. Kaid Benfield follows up on Robert Dunphy’s ULI post and makes the point that compact communities can allow people to [...]
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Yin & Yang: Density & Parks
Posted on January 12, 2009 by Ben Welle
On Common Ground, a magazine on smart growth of the National Association of Realtors has a great piece (pdf) on urban parks in its current issue. One of the more interesting pieces in the article is how density and parks complement each other. Baltimore’s 155-acre Patterson Park, situated in a neighborhood of tightly-knit row houses [...]
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A Broader Smart Growth Agenda
Posted on October 22, 2008 by Ben Welle
Kaid Benfield, a leader in the smart growth movement, makes a great case today at his NRDC blog that “it is time for advocates and practitioners to embrace a broader, more holistic vision of what smart, sustainable development should be in the 21st century” and that this “will mean retaining, but also being more ambitious than, [...]
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