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.
City Council in Rohnert Park, California, approved the $1 billion Sonoma Mountain Village project, hailed as a model of environmentally responsible development.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Silver Gardens, the first affordable housing development in New Mexico designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification, has opened in downtown Albuquerque
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.
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.
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.
The Office of Sustainable Development in Portland, Oregon, has decided that one of the best ways to cut down on greenhouse-gas emissions is by fostering what it calls the “20-minute neighborhood.”
