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Revitalizing Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine (Part 2 - the Neighborhood's Assets)
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 4:46pmLast week I wrote the first installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati’s remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.
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Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine, On the Verge
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 1:40pmCincinnati’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 gr
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Susan Barnes-Gelt in Denver Post: Principles of New Urbanism are "Recipe for Survival"
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 6:50amWith CNU 17 ready to kick off in Denver just over a week from now, Denver Post columnist Susan Barnes-Gelt introduced a great package o
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Federal Stimulus Threatened to Overrun Small Town with Sprawl
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 11:59amAs most readers of CNU's site know only too well, the federal government has a history of subsidizing sprawl, wittingly or not.
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Considering the role of density in smart growth and urbanism
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 11:20amLater this week, I am going to be participating with my friend David Dixon and marketing whiz Laurie Volk in a seminar on development density at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Archite
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When the market recovers, smartly located urbanism will claim a larger share. Here's why.
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 10:43amEven before the recession began, the market for residential and commercial property in the US was changing away from a model of unmitigated suburban sprawl and toward one of more central locations, ur
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Strong Centers Make Healthier Regions
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 10:59amThe signs continue to mount that the housing market is moving in favor of central locations, and away from sprawl. It’s all a matter of degree, of course, but the signals are real.
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It's time to adjust to the metropolitan reality
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 10:26amOne of the recurring themes of my writing (for example, here) has been that, to achieve susta
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Sprawl's share of new US housing starts has declined dramatically, says EPA
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 10:55amA new report from the US Environmental Protection Agency documents a dramatic shift in the pattern of new development
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New NRDC site features visions of urbanism across the country
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 12:18pmLast month, NRDC launched an interactive web site featuring transformative visions of how smart growth development could be implemented across the country.
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