April 17, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
As I wrote two years ago, a successful rural landscape – working farms and forests, and natural areas that last – is utterly dependent on successful to… Continue reading
May 17, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
The housing price recovery has begun, says a new report from The Demand Institute, a think tank recently launched by Nielson and The Conference Board to track cons… Continue reading
April 24, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I want to follow up on yesterday’s article about placemaking. Reacting to an excellent essay by Ethan Kent, I posited that that the creation and strengthenin… Continue reading
March 8, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Earlier this week, the city council of El Paso, the nation’s 19th-largest city, unanimously adopted a detailed comprehensive plan built around the principles… Continue reading
February 13, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
London (photo by Chuck Wolfe)
There is a reason that romantic movies and novels are set in cities such as Paris, Rome, Prague, San Francisco, and New … Continue reading
January 27, 2012
by Michael Davidson
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Michael Davidson, China Climate Fellow, Washington, DC
Over the last three days here at the UN in New York City, I have heard a lot of criticisms of the “zero” draft outcome document for the June Rio+20 Earth Summit. Countri… Continue reading
January 9, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Imagine a scenario by which our country’s most populous state, notorious for freeways, traffic nightmares and smog, could reduce driving by 3.7 trillion mile… Continue reading
October 6, 2011
by Michael Davidson
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Michael Davidson, China Climate Fellow, Washington, DC
Over 1,400 young people descended on Indonesia last week in the biggest youth gathering on the Race to Rio yet. Coming from 118 different countries, it was also the most global gath… Continue reading
February 14, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Prague. Venice. Rome. Paris. These are some destinations that perennially make “ten-most-romantic cities” lists. I just looked at three such sites, and… Continue reading