Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably
Today I am pleased to present a very good guest post by my friend and frequent collaborator Lee Epstein: Reading Kaid's recent posts on the great value (and sometime dearth) of environmentalists engaging on urban redevelopment issues made me recall...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Last week I had the honor of being one of seven smart growth types recruited by the American Institute of Architects to work with the city of Indianapolis and community residents on the model revitalization of a distressed urban neighborhood. ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Last week's post on the architecture of the Make It Right Foundation's new homes in New Orleans brought some thoughtful comments, and it brought even more when I reposted it on another site that I also frequent. ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Last week I wrote the first installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati's remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. As I wrote then, this distinct and historic quarter adjacent to Cincinnati's downtown is full of promise but bears considerable scars from decades of disinvestment,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Cincinnati's historic and very centrally located Over-the-Rhine neighborhood is poised to become one of America's greatest revitalization stories, in the process creating a national exemplar of green, sustainable development. But a lot of things will need to happen in...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
While at the AIA convention (I'm not an architect but still want to be one when I grow up) last week, I attended a presentation on the redevelopment of the Marketplace site in Emeryville, California, right across the Bay...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Some great folks at the University of Cincinnati have begun to acquaint me with an exciting revitalization effort going on in the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of their city. In many ways, what I have learned so far -...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
While preparing for a presentation, I was reminded that smart growth can and should be implemented step-by-step, and neighborhood-by-neighborhood. It also should be built at a scale and character appropriate to the setting. For example, here's a photo of a...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
In the early 1990s, Diane Dulken, who used to direct communications in NRDC's Washington office (and now has a consulting business in the Pacific Northwest), posed a fascinating idea for recycling dysfunctional suburbs: reshaping auto-dependent "office parks" into mixed-use communities...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Allison Arieff has a provocative post on her NYTimes.com blog ("What Will Save the Suburbs?"), questioning whether existing suburbs are beyond repair. She ponders the foreclosure crisis and the resulting abandonment of housing projects, and writes: "In urban areas, there's...continued→
