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• Indiana Town Sees Canal as Sustainable Stormwater Management System and Economic Boost

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 511
  Jeffersonville, Indiana, plans to change a street near the Ohio River into 40-foot wide canal and 3/4-mile pedestrian promenade. The plan is expected to improve the town’s ability to sustainably manage stormwater and enable pedestrians to more easily walk to stores and local attractions.  The town’s mayor ...
  6 days ago

• The Smart Growth Manual

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 413
  Smart Growth is slowly being recognized as having benefits outside of the usual talk of walkable neighbourhoods and streetscapes. This book, The Smart Growth Manual runs through the principles from the Regional context, the Neighbourhood, the Street, down to the Building design. If you are interested in New Urbanism, ...
  6 days ago

• Elections

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 497
  Just as when Bob Ehrlich, the Republican candidate, won the Governorship in Maryland in 2002 because he faced a weak Democratic candidate, I think the only thing that election results in Virginia (" GOP and McDonnell soar in Virginia " -- Post ) and New Jersey (" Christie bests Corzine in election for N.J. governor " ...
  6 days ago

• Remember the point about Montgomery County adjusting to a smart growth land paradigm

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 497
  Check out this pro-automobile editorial from the Gazette from a couple weeks ago, " Where we grow from here ." And this cartoon . (This is what I meant to blog about.) From the editorial: One of the main problems with the proposal is that some of the methods to encourage transit-oriented growth ...
  1 week ago

• Traffic Congestion Pricing Methods and Technologies

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 484
  http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/41/45/26/PDF/2009-30.pdf Abstract: This paper reviews the methods and technologies for congestion pricing of roads. Congestion tolls can be implemented at scales ranging from individual lanes on single links to national road networks. Tolls can be differentiated by time of ...
  1 week ago

• Coralville council and Smart Growth workshop

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 488
  A Smart Growth Public Workshop with members of the Coralville City Council in attendance will be held at the Coralville Public Library, lower level, 1401 5 th Street on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 from 4:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.   This is a public input workshop regarding smart growth policy options and ...
  1 week ago

• Urban growth boundaries and success with "smart growth"

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 497
  Of course, with regard to the report mentioned in todays Post, you have to have a variety of tools in place to make better land use decision making possible. In Maryland, two counties, Baltimore and Montgomery , have relatively hard and fast "urban growth" boundaries, just like Portland, Oregon , even though in ...
  1 week ago

• The Kel Word: Walk This Way

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 142
  Knowing I wanted to write an eco piece today, I first thought Id cover how Montana Senator Max Baucus is
  1 week ago

• "Of course" "smart growth" in Maryland is a "flop"

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 497
  According to todays Post , " Study says Md. law fails to direct growth, save open space ." From the article: But a new study says the law has been a bust, largely because it has no teeth to force local governments to comply and because builders have little incentive to redevelop older urban neighborhoods. Thats ...
  1 week ago

• Planning Sustainable Communities: “It’s More than Being Green”

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 511
  The focus of this year’s American Planning Association AICP National Symposium , held at the National Building Museum, was planning sustainable communities. Beth Osborne, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Shelley Poticha, Senior Advisor for ...
  1 week ago

• Pricing Externalities from Passenger Transportation in Mexico City

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 484
  http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2009/10/09/000158349_20091009143814/Rendered/PDF/WPS5071.pdf Abstract: The Mexico City Metropolitan Area has been suffering severely from transportation externalities such as accidents, air pollution, and traffic congestion. This study examines pricing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Effects of Urban Sprawl on Obesity

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 484
  http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15436 In this paper, Zhenxiang Zhao and Robert Kaestner examine the effect of changes in population density—urban sprawl—between 1970 and 2000 on BMI and obesity of residents in metropolitan areas in the US. The authors address the possible endogeneity of population density by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Report from the HRG Smart Growth Conference

  
  Houston Strategies — Authority: 113
  It went quite well . Thanks to those of you who plowed through the rain to attend. If youre interested in some of what was said, the Land Use Prof Blog has a report . Im also hoping to link to some of the charts and video when its up. But in the meantime, here are a few of my observations and a portion of my ...
  2 weeks ago

• How High Speed Rail Can Spread Across the U.S.

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 511
  The U.S. High Speed Rail Assocation , a new group formed to advocate for high speed rail, organized a conference in D.C. attended by Congressional representatives, smart growth advocates, and Governor Ed Rendell from Pennsylvania, a leading high speed rail proponent. Rendell argues that a nation-wide high speed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Telecommuting News Summary 102009

  
  Undress4Success - Work From Home — Authority: 112
  Deeds vows to be chief job recruiter if elected Martinsville Bulletin – Debbie Hall , Ginny Wray – ‎ Oct 20, 2009‎ Although he would not include broadband costs in a transportation budget, Deeds said having the technology in all communities would allow telecommuting and … Chrysler ...
  3 weeks ago

• Health advocates blanket Congress with health & transportation message

  
  Transportation For America — Authority: 515
  139 Originally uploaded by Transportation for America Dr. Richard Jackson speaks at the podium, flanked by Dr. Georges Benjamin, left, Shireen Malekafzali, Dr. Joe Thompson, James Corless, and Julia Lopez. More info about the speakers can be found in our press release . Our transportation investments ...
  3 weeks ago

• Free conference this Wed on the issues of smart growth

  
  Houston Strategies — Authority: 113
  HRG is putting on a free conference this Wednesday afternoon at the GRB downtown: " The Truth About Smart Growth: Setting the Stage for the Housing Collapse - National Conference About What Works & What Hurts ." I will be doing some speaking at the event, and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reflections on EPA UDB Workshop

  
  Transit Miami — Authority: 429
  This week visitors from the EPA Smart Growth office joined the UDB/Hold the line fray as self described ‘outside observers’. They were invited by the County commission, and boy do they have their work cut out for them. Thursday’s workshop was a mini battle royale, with the developer/attorney camp led by sprawl ...
  3 weeks ago

• In Anticipation Of The New Castle County Councils Vote This Evening On "Smart Growth" And "Streamlining"

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 144
  Please take a look at the StayOutOfMyPocket blog for the newest post - "Poor public policy continues to cost us even more" including ~ Dr. James A.Kushner, a noted national expert in housing, averred that there was no "Smart Growth" in Delaware. Some of his comments: "Smart growth".."Not in ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Trust for Public Land - Conservation: An Investment That Pays - The Economic Benefits of Parks and Open Space

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 484
  http://www.tpl.org/content_documents/EconBenefitsReport_7_2009.pdf Foreword by Will Rogers, President, The Trust for Public Land In 1999, The Trust for Public Land published its first report on the economic benefits of parks and open space. Some of the ideas in the report had been around since at least the mid-19th ...
  4 weeks ago

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