Category: Public Policy
Everything’s Connected: Health, Healthy Aging, Community Design
Among the most encouraging trends in Smart Growth is an emerging consensus that good community design can address a bunch of issues at once. Which makes for much more comprehensive, cost-effective strategies to match the complexity of challenges before policy-makers.
Take, for instance, the agendas of separate entities... Continue Reading
Category Planning and Design, Public Policy
And Now the Rest of the Story: Stewart Brand Promotes Urbanism, Including Slums
This could be the next must-get book for Smart Growthers, New Urbanists, and lots of us who bought into the eco-techno connection decades ago. Stewart Brand, creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and author more recently of How Buildings Learn (Penguin, 1994) - which Jane Jacobs called "a classic and probably a work of genius"... Continue Reading
Category Planning and Design, Public Policy
Now What? CNU 17 Addresses the New Era Economy
The irony is unavoidable. Interest in Smart Growth and New Urbanist topics has never been higher. Check out this May 2 column in the Washington Post; or David Brooks’ opinion piece in the New York Times from May 4. Yet the economic downturn has sucked the energy out of innovative projects in both private and... Continue Reading
“Best Practices Guide” Debuts to Glowing Reviews
4th Edition of New Urban News Book Just Issued
Here’s what got our attention: Miami architect/author/New Urbanist provocateur Steve Mouzon says the 2009 "Best Practices Guide" from the New Urban News “just might be the most useful single book on the New Urbanism I have ever seen.” (Read Steve’s complete... Continue Reading
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Next Step in Reforming Transportation Policy: T4 America’s “Blueprint”
Advocates for a different approach to transportation planning haven’t been delirious about the reluctance of the feds and DOTs to depart from business as usual when it comes to investing stimulus money. But there’s another chance.
All aboard. It's time to depart from business as usual.
Transportation for America,... Continue Reading
Category Planning and Design, Public Policy
On this Earth Day Anniversary: Hints of Convergence
As 21st century crises and concerns began stacking up, it had begun to look as if Smart Growth priorities were going to have to compete for attention and resources with other burning issues. Such as: Climate change, peak oil, community affordability, health care costs, and now the struggling global economy. But on... Continue Reading
DPZ Promotes Mall Makeovers
Will Florida put the “suburban retrofitting” movement on the fast track?
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Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. (DPZ) is providing state officials with a legislative template to do just that. On April... Continue Reading
Atlanta’s Lifelong Communities Charrette Delivers the Goods
Atlanta's landmark charrette on planning for "Lifelong Communities" wrapped on February 17, with an Andres Duany presentation to a downtown auditorium packed with some 500 people.
A crowd of nearly 500 gathers for the closing presentation of the ARC's Lifelong Communities charrette.
On February 11, the opening night... Continue Reading
Category Planning and Design, Public Policy
Atlanta, AARP, DPZ Attack Challenges of Aging in Place
The New Urbanist mantra for neighborhood planning is to go for compact, connected, and complete. Well, one critical component of completeness, that of making communities comfortable - and practical - for residents of all ages, has been sort of assumed by NU planners. Yet it's taken an effort by the nation's primary advocacy... Continue Reading
Category Planning and Design, Public Policy
Will Economic Woes Stall the Green Movement?
When we got a note from colleagues in Chattanooga, Tennessee, letting us know that that their city had not only crafted a Climate Action Plan but was also set to create a new office of sustainability, it got us to thinking: Is the competition for funding in the deepening recession going to kill momentum for this sort of... Continue Reading
Category Public Policy