Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory Discusses Downtown and New Riverfront Park

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Coleen Gentles

Smart Growth America recently completed video interviews with several mayors and other prominent elected officials nationwide, and will be releasing them over the next several months. The first is with Mayor Mark Mallory from Cincinnati — he speaks to the need to invest in downtowns and to make the right kinds of infrastructure investments to trigger job creation [...]

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“A Design that Celebrates the People”: Normal, IL Traffic Circle Wins Smart Growth Award as New Civic Space

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Coleen Gentles

Earlier this month, EPA announced the winners of the 2011 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement.  We are excited to report that Normal, Illinois is the recipient of the award in the Civic Places category for their traffic roundabout. We’ve written before about how the town’s new traffic circle has successfully managed traffic flow at [...]

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Creating and Financing Infill Parks in the Bay Area: Part II

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Ryan Donahue

The Trust for Public Land’s Center for City Park Excellence performed a study for the Association of Bay Area Governments, one component of which was identifying examples of how recently completed infill parks were financed. We will be publishing each of the four case studies (see the first one here), with Windsor Town Green as our [...]

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Creating and Financing Infill Parks in the Bay Area: Part I

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Ryan Donahue

San Francisco was just crowned the greenest city in the U.S. and Canada by one large study, a nod to its policies that require recycling, ban plastic shopping bags, and provide incentives for solar roofs. But the Bay Area is also thinking of sustainability in terms of smarter growth throughout the region as a whole. [...]

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NRDC Video: Learn Smart Growth in 30 Seconds

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Ben Welle

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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