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A promising new standard: LEED for Neighborhood Development

April 19, 2011 by ECPA Urban Planning
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  I recently had the pleasure of sitting in on a talk hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) that was headlined by three Greater Washington developers working on projects that are hoping to obtain some of D.C.’s first LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certifications:  The Southwest Waterfront (The... [read more]

Transit Oriented (affordable) Development

December 9, 2010 by Daniel Nairn
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In case you missed it, the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University dropped a bombshell of a report about Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) back in October. Key finding:"Rising incomes in some gentrifying [Transit-Rich Neighborhoods] may be accompanied by an increase in wealthier households who are more... [read more]

Florida’s High-Speed Superregion

December 8, 2010 by Next American City
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Credit: Flickr user PheanixA lot is riding on the Florida’s proposed high-speed rail line from Orlando to Tampa. If built, it would be the first pure such line in the US and a first step at reshaping the way Americans travel between cities. But it would also irreversibly change the face of communities along the line. “The project... [read more]

How transit-oriented development can be triple bottom line

October 27, 2010 by Neil Takemoto
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First of all, this post is not against light-rail transit-oriented development, but that it needs a better model if it’s to achieve its noble intended goals of increasing transit use while decreasing auto dependence. As you can see by the graph above, in light-rail transit-oriented development (TOD), there are 50% more households with... [read more]

TOD works

October 23, 2009 by Urban Direction
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If there is a problem with planning in general (and there are surely more than one) then it is the fact that plans or developments themselves cannot quickly respond to the market feedback. When New Coke debuted and sales plummeted, Coca Cola had very clear feedback, and could tell if its product “worked.” It took decades for planners... [read more]