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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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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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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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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