April 11, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
For several years now, many of us have been predicting – or even celebrating - the end of the era of unfettered sprawl. Central cities have been ma… Continue reading
December 18, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
We can now add even smaller cities with populations under 250,000 to the convincing body of evidence showing that the decades-long trend of urban decline in Americ… Continue reading
November 26, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
To move more deliberately toward anything resembling a sustainable future, we need to use land more efficiently, building more compactly, with significantly higher… Continue reading
June 29, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
For the first time in a century, America’s largest cities are growing faster than their suburbs. An Associated Press story widely covered in the media … Continue reading
April 19, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
As many readers have probably noticed, there are those who now contend that planning walkable, green communities is a big-government sponsored, gross violation of … Continue reading
April 16, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
If you’re in the business of trying to make communities better, and supporting great, green revitalization that will strengthen central cities, you know only… Continue reading
March 2, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Like the equally infamous Cabrini-Green public housing project in Chicago, the Pruitt-Igoe towers in St. Louis were once seen as beacons of hope, a way to … Continue reading
January 4, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
For some time, I have been on record as believing that the problem with former industrial cities that have lost population isn’t just the changing economy.&n… Continue reading
December 7, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Much of the thinking among those of us concerned with how to accommodate a growing US population in a sustainable way focuses on our metropolitan regions – o… Continue reading
October 19, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I undertake today’s topic with more than a little trepidation, since it is by its nature emotionally and, not infrequently, racially charged. The title… Continue reading
August 12, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
The Places to Grow land use plan for the region of Ontario around Toronto and Hamilton (image above) is one of the best I have seen. I will discuss it more below, but y… Continue reading
July 8, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC I wrote in May about a report by Richard Florida that city crime had dropped to its lowest rate in 40 years. And now there’s more: last week, Florid… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMay 31, 2011
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC
In the late 1990s, when Don Chen, Matt Raimi and I were researching our book, Once There Were Greenfields, we lamented the flight of business from America’s c… Continue reading
April 18, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC In defiance of the environmental values it supposedly stands for, the federal Environmental Protection Agency is moving its regional headquarters from a walkable, transit-r… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 1, 2011
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Throw out those old notions that the sprawling regions of the Sun Belt are where the economic action is, while traditional regions in the Northeast and West have had their day and will only lose traction from here on. The facts show that … Continue reading
December 7, 2010
by Kaid Benfield
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One of my favorite bloggers, Aaron Renn (The Urbanophile), has a new post analyzing migration patterns of college graduates in the last decade, 2000-2009. In particular, he reports on changes in what might be called educated density, expressed as… Continue reading
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