November 16, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Earlier this year, I wrote about how some neighborhoods were building community through creative street painting. But, as a tough Philadelphia neighborhood i… Continue reading
September 20, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Anyone familiar with my writing and work knows I am all in on revitalization, when it’s done sensitively and with inclusion. Nothing has been worse for… Continue reading
September 13, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
This three-minute video is almost haunting in its poetic but spare portrayal of what was then seen as the city of the future. In presenting LA from an o… Continue reading
September 7, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
A few years ago, I co-authored a post here that featured the small town in which I grew up in Pennsylvania. I tried not to be nostalgic, but the town did hav… 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
November 10, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
This time it’s real. Cincinnati voters have (again) defeated a misguided attempt to block the city’s new streetcar, which now will move forward a… 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
June 16, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC I’m in Wilmington, Delaware this week, where I was asked (and honored) to speak to an EPA-sponsored symposium on green historic preservation. I spoke … Continue reading
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by Kaid Benfield
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To creative-class types who inhabit trendy east and west coast cities and a few mid-country oases like Austin and Boulder, sleepy Paducah, Kentucky (population estimated 25,720 in 2009) might seem an unlikely location for a ma… Continue reading
September 14, 2010
by Kaid Benfield
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I have been greatly troubled that, within weeks of our finalizing and publishing LEED for Neighborhood Development, a rating system designed to honor and encourage smart, green urbanism, a sort of negative whisper campaign began circulating, claiming t… Continue reading
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