October 9, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Today’s article is by my friend Lee Epstein, an attorney and land use planner working for sustainability in the Mid-Atlantic region. Lee’s last contribut… Continue reading
December 1, 2011
by Amanda Eaken
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Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco
Clearly someone’s been paying attention. Southern California’s first Sustainable Communities Strategy under SB 375–officially released today by unanimous… Continue reading
October 13, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Via Verde (“Green Way” in Spanish) is a new mixed-income, mixed-use development nearing completion in a once-severely disinvested area… Continue reading
September 16, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Philadelphia2035 is an ambitious, comprehensive planning and zoning process designed to position the city’s built environment to support a more vital and resi… Continue reading
January 7, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Although NRDC is now an international organization, we were born in New York City four decades ago and have always had a special connection to urban issues in and around the region. Today, our staff for New York comprises more than twenty lawyers… Continue reading
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by Kaid Benfield
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It has been a dozen years or so, fifteen at the most, since a broad but committed group of advocates and organizations coalesced around a shared set of beliefs that, borrowing from then-Maryland-governor Parris Glendening’s la… Continue reading