May 1, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I hesitate to write yet another article about bringing “smart growth” – the combination of ideas born in the 1990s to counter suburban sprawl &nd… Continue reading
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
April 1, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Washington, DC, April 1, 2013 – The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Congress for the New Urbanism announced today that the two national organizatio… Continue reading
February 13, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Getting the right city density – generally expressed in the US as people per square mile or homes per acre – to support sustainable and pleasant living… Continue reading
February 6, 2013
by Amanda Eaken
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Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco
When people criticize California for being stuck in the ‘60s, they’re usually talking about hippies and flower power. Yet last week, the Sacramento County… Continue reading
January 22, 2013
by Amanda Eaken
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Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco
If population trends in California hold true, more than 6.5 million people will call the Central Valley home by 2050. That is a 72% increase from today’s popula… Continue reading
January 2, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
In my final article of 2012, I looked back at the year in review, to honor important recent work worth celebrating. For my first one of 2013, let’s loo… 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
August 6, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
On my flight home from California last week, I took the photo above. It’s not the greatest photo, but I captured the image to illustrate the edge of suburban… Continue reading
June 1, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Last week, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the US Green Building Council announced the opening of the 2012 Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Progr… Continue reading
May 18, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Charlotte now has a lively entertainment district within shouting distance of Uptown, thanks to the NC Music Factory, which has repurposed a decaying textile mill … 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 13, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
If you care about cities, about walkable communities, about healing the crappy environment thrust upon us for the last four decades in the form of suburban sprawl,… Continue reading
January 18, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Where would you rather be? Here?
Or here?
Let’s try it again. This time assume you are an environmentalist who understands that we need m… 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 12, 2011
by Amanda Eaken
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Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco
A new study issued today by the Urban Land Institute confirms what many of us living in California already know–sprawl has had its heyday, and more and more peo… Continue reading
December 9, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Not long ago, Newton, County, Georgia, was classic rural America: a few small towns, some historic buildings, and a lot of farming. But the county… Continue reading
December 6, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Years ago, I was motivated to participate in what became the cause of smart growth, and now for many of us has evolved into the cause of sustainable communities, b… Continue reading
November 16, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
How the times have changed: while residential land prices in the US have fallen by a staggering 70 percent since 2006, the value of cropland has actually ris… Continue reading
October 4, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
It will not be news to anyone who is reading this that the United States remains in the midst of the deepest economic crisis in my lifetime. (I guess it turn… Continue reading