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Demographic Dividend

September 25, 2011 by Jim Russell
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The main lesson I learned from working on Global Cleveland's boomerang migration project is that civic leadership has an unhealthy obsession with population numbers. This is a real drag on policy innovation for shrinking cities and rural communities. We are chasing yesterday's economy instead of looking to the future. Our outlook is... [read more]

British Petroleum Begins a New Era of Responsibility for NGOs

June 1, 2010 by Peter Auditore
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We all need and consume oil, and the myriad of products spawned from its ecosystem. We all share in the risk of exploiting it, some more directly than others. And then there are those neighborhoods (next to the refineries) that absorb more risk than others. And then there are the oil companies that take on the risk of exploitation, but... [read more]

Scientists Issue Open Letter On Climate Change

May 12, 2010 by Mark Lovett
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Thinking for ourselves, forming our own beliefs, and speaking about them openly, are fundamental human rights.  But when the opinions of some have the potential to cause permanent damage to our planet, and threaten the lives of millions, that’s a different matter altogether. Much intelligent debate has occurred in recent years... [read more]

Interview with Kathryn Gustafson on Her Civic and Cultural Spaces

May 4, 2010 by The Dirt ASLA
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Kathryn Gustafson, ASLA, is principal at Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. Gustafson is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architecture, an honorary Royal Designer for Industry, and a medalist of the French Academy of Architecture. She is the recipient of The Chrysler Design Award and London’s Jane Drew Prize. For the past... [read more]

Saint Louis: More Progressive than Denver?*

April 14, 2010 by Andrew Faulkner
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* For the time-being anyway. Many times, when dealing with intractable problems it is impossible to resist succumbing to the grass-is-greener approach. In Saint Louis, during conversations with a wide array of advocates and transit professionals, the comparison to Denver is inevitable: "if we had a transit district like Denver", "... [read more]

New EPA Rules: Fuel Economy and Emissions

April 2, 2010 by Rich Maltzman
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This is no April Fools!  On April 1, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT), in response to an Obama Administration directive, established new, more stringent Federal Rules that “set the first-ever national greenhouse gas emissions standards and will significantly increase the... [read more]

The Freakonomics Of Place--We Have Seen The Sprawl And It Is Us

March 19, 2010 by Shari Shapiro
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I have posted on many occasions about the importance of place in green building--green buildings on unsustainable sites are simply not green.  But it is never really true until the Grey Lady--The New York Times--says it is.  Today, on the Times' Freakonomics blog, James McWilliams had a nice little piece on the... [read more]

Lessons from the Sun Belt: replacing sprawl with smart growth requires sustained commitment

March 4, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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For smart urbanism to be more than a boutique product, it must become not an experiment but standard practice in jurisdictions across the county.  When Parris Glendening was governor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, for example, the state of Maryland had real leadership on progressive land use; it was just beginning to make... [read more]

What criteria should we use to define smart growth locations?

February 24, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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This may be my all-time wonkiest post (tomorrow’s will be easier to digest, promise), so do be warned:  In particular, there has been much discussion lately about which criteria policymakers should use to define “smart growth” or “location efficiency” for the application of policy.  As all of us who have slaved over LEED-ND... [read more]

Informality and Inclusion

October 3, 2009 by polis blog
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Recent developments in Kibera and Dharavi, two of the most high-profile slums in the world, underscore the importance of including informal workers in planning decisions. In Kibera, a UN-backed slum clearance is underway amidst protest from residents whose livelihoods are at risk. The redevelopment plan for Dharavi has been stalled due... [read more]