Environment: sustainable planning

How development patterns affect resource use and resilience

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New York smart growth bill signed by Gov. Paterson

The Smart Growth Public Policy Infrastructure Policy Act, which aims to spend more of the New York State’s tax money on infrastructure in compact communities and less of it in sprawling locations, was signed into law at 8 PM Aug. 30 by Gov. David Paterson.

0 Tue, Aug 31st 2010 6:25pm
Environmentally advanced mixed-use project approved in California

City Council in Rohnert Park, California, approved the $1 billion Sonoma Mountain Village project, hailed as a model of environmentally responsible development.

0 Wed, Aug 25th 2010 3:47pm
California selects models for sustainable land use

Thirteen new urban and smart growth developments were named as Catalyst Projects on August 24 by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).

0 Wed, Aug 25th 2010 1:10pm
What does 'net zero' mean? Sprawl by another name?

Kaid Benfield at the Natural Resources Defense Council pulls no punches in his review of a proposed "green" development that consists of large-lot single family houses on a piece of Illinois farmland miles from any town.

0 Thu, Aug 19th 2010 5:01pm
NuRide rewards alternatives to SOV

A free online service known as NuRide is promoting “green” mobility by giving rewards to people who car-pool, van-pool, bicycle, walk, telecommute, or take public transportation instead of driving alone.

0 Wed, Aug 18th 2010 10:50am
The Original Green

Unlocking the Mystery of True Sustainability
By Stephen A. Mouzon
Review by Robert Steuteville

0 Wed, Aug 18th 2010 10:20am
Abogo: the latest transportation and sustainability tool

Type an address into Abogo, a new website created by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) in Chicago, and you get transportation costs and carbon emissions per month per household.

0 Thu, Aug 12th 2010 1:43pm
Silver Gardens opens

Silver Gardens, the first affordable housing development in New Mexico designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification, has opened in downtown Albuquerque

0 Thu, Aug 12th 2010 10:38am
Livable Communities Act advances in Senate

Bill to establish a federal Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities wins passage from Senate Banking Committee on party-line vote.

0 Tue, Aug 10th 2010 5:20pm
Green Living: Architecture and Planning

Edited by Barbara Kenda, Steven Parissien, Gloria Ohland, and Kateri Butler

What kind of design works well for the environment and communities, and reinforces human culture?

0 Thu, Aug 5th 2010 2:10pm
HOPE VI project, soon to open, offers uplift and argument in Niagara Falls

Years in the making, Niagara Falls' HOPE VI development's first phase is nearly ready after environmental delays.

0 Thu, Jul 29th 2010 9:18pm
Calthorpe questions Bay Area opposition to big projects

Controversy over Saltworks project in Redwood City highlights disagreement among Californian environmentalists over where and how densely to build.

1 Mon, Aug 2nd 2010 7:11pm
CNU, EPA join to form "Rainwater Initiative"

0 Tue, Jun 15th 2010 11:52am
Full-fledged LEED-ND under way

In all, 238 projects in the US, Canada, and overseas participated in the pilot program.

0 Tue, Jun 15th 2010 1:28pm
Resilience and smart growth

"To be resilient suggests an inner toughness: the strength, as its etymology tells us, to ‘jump back’ to a previous state," writes Andrew McMurry.

0 Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:13pm

Research

Moving Cooler

Beyond economy-wide pricing measures, land use strategies are the most effective long-term way to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report’s authors, Cambridge Systematics.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:16pm
Which factors matter, and why

Research tells us that CO2 from transportation is the result of a location’s accessibility to major destinations and the design characteristics of an area. Thus, both where development goes and how it is designed matter.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:16pm
Studies: mixed-use, walkable development alleviates traffic

New urbanists have long contended that mixed-use projects are treated unfairly by the transportation-engineering establishment. The “trip generation rates” promulgated by ITE fail to recognize that when diverse uses are brought together in walkable settings, people may drive substantially less.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:15pm