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Vancouver's Olympic Village - smart, green & urban
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 4:11pm.Vancouver’s civic leaders believe that the athlete’s village built for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, and the planned neighborhood that will surround it, will be one of the very greenest neighborh
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NU principles drive revitalization plans in Rockford, IL
Submitted by rgallentine on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:26pm.The Rockford Register Star recently profiled the efforts of Montreal-based planning fir
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Brookings: Fastest growing poverty rates occur in suburbs
Submitted by rgallentine on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:01pm.In places where sprawl without smart regional planning continues its inexorable march outward (and with it its expensive, car-dependent attitude), it is unsurprising that these areas might also see ma
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CNU Fact Check: What War on Suburbia?
Submitted by rgallentine on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:47pm.
UPDATE: The original story stated falsely that Senator-Elect Scott Brown gained 11 points over the McCain vote statewide. The actual number is 16.... read more »
LEED awards show why ‘green’ criteria need reform
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 7:22pm.The US Green Building Council, which NRDC and CNU both support and to which we donate lots of staff time, including mine, is a terrific organization that has done a lot for the environment and arguabl
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Major real estate report: shift to urban living is “fundamental,” outer suburbs may “lack staying power”
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 6:27pm.Last week the Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterhouseCoopers released their well-regarded annual analysis, Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010.
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An Indy neighborhood could become a model of smart, green revitalization – so where are the enviros?
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 7:39pm.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 revitali
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Other Cities, Take Note: Bold, Smart, Green Vision Proposed for Downtown Raleigh
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:22pm.Dan Douglas was, until recently, chief downtown planner and director of the Urban Design Council in Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina.
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Sustainable? Not CNU's Charter Award
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 10:38pm.According to NJ State Senator Gordon's office on Sept. 15, 2009, NJ Gov. Corzine killed Smart Growth in NJ as soon as he came into office years ago, and it has been dead ever since. Sen.
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Sensible Ideas from the Right on How Smart Growth and New Urbanism Save Taxpayers Money
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 7:26pm.Examples such as Reconnecting America's Conservatives and Public Transit by Robert Weyrich and Bill Lind aside, there's been a
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