January 28, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
There is a very interesting and highly idealistic planned community in the works in northern Idaho. It is contemplated for about 3,500-7,000 families on two … 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 20, 2012
by Mark Izeman
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Mark Izeman, Senior Attorney and Director of the New York Urban Program, New York
It’s probably just me, but when I hear the word “Rio” I think of that really awful song by Duran Duran from the early 1980s. (And yes, t… Continue reading
May 3, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
The American Society of Landscape Architects has produced another great video, this one about growing food in cities. I’m a big fan of ASLA’s work, in p… Continue reading
April 20, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
One of the problems I have with a lot of what passes for smart infill development – on the whole, a good thing – is that parks and green space are trea… Continue reading
January 25, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
(Note: Today’s post was conceived and largely authored by my friend and frequent collaborator, Lee Epstein. Lee is an attorney, land use planner, and s… 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
March 16, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Long-disinvested communities frequently lack amenities, including walkable access to neighborhood parks. Yet parks and neighborhoods need each other. In his well-researched book Urban Green, my friend Peter Harnik of the Trust … Continue reading
March 7, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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“The reasons for preserving our existing building stock aren’t strictly cultural and sentimental; preservation should be understood as a land-use tool and as an economic tool that can be used to build denser, more attractive … Continue reading
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