May 8, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Today’s article is another excerpt from my forthcoming book, People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think about Greener, Healthier Cities, which will be coming out later… Continue reading
March 27, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I am very pleased to announce that my new book, People Habitat, will be coming out later this year. It will be available in both print and ebook formats, and… Continue reading
March 13, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I have been invited to participate in a program tonight on sloth. I’m even featured, promoted. How should I feel about this? Embarrassed?&n… Continue reading
March 1, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Many people who care deeply about cities, including yours truly, believe that there should be accommodation for all: today’s America is increasingly di… Continue reading
February 18, 2013
by MoreRecycling
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Tens of thousands gathered in Washington DC Sunday for the #ForwardOnClimate rally. Here’s why it is about more than just Keystone XL. Continue reading
Share on FacebookNovember 30, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Wow. For cities to succeed environmentally, they also need to be fun, right? Sprawl is dying and cities are the answer, but to finish the job one of ou… Continue reading
November 21, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
There is probably no other annual event in American culture that extols the concept of family more than Thanksgiving, which we celebrate tomorrow. I&rsq… Continue reading
November 19, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I’ve been procrastinating this one for a long time. I generally avoid taking stands on controversial local issues in Washington, where I have lived for… Continue reading
September 5, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I’ve been clean and sober for 20 months now and still counting. Lest you think that I am about to take you down a path of Too Much Information, please … Continue reading
July 30, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
We have a number of formal and informal ways to think about what makes a good walkable community. I’ve written before about the popsicle test (can a ch… Continue reading
July 2, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
NRDC’s sustainable communities team has just created a second video channel, on Vimeo.com, to complement our original on YouTube. In each, we are collecting … 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
May 8, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I’ve been looking at some research reports, and confirming that some of the qualities associated with great urbanism – good public transit; easy a… 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
April 17, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
This great little video, produced by ITDP Mexico, simplifies and explains induced travel demaind about as well as I’ve ever seen. Fast moving and fun. … Continue reading
March 19, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Here’s part of a really funny graphic posted by Paul Caridad of visualnews.com, imagining Ikea instructions for Stonehenge:
Go here for the full “instructions.”
Mo… Continue reading
March 9, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
This amazing video takes only 38 seconds to tell a powerful story. T… Continue reading
February 28, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
The Chicago-based Center for Neighborhood Technology maintains a massive, geocoded database of location-specific information on average housing costs, driving rate… Continue reading
February 14, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Yesterday I presented a gallery of places that inspire romance – places that kindle love, if you will. But I submit that they are also lovable themselv… Continue reading
February 9, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
After many years of dramatically increasing home size in America – from an average of 983 square feet in the 1950s up to 2300 square feet in the 2000s, despit… Continue reading