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NRDC: 2007 Annual Report - Moving America Beyond Oil
Smart-growth communities offer walkable neighborhoods, housing near jobs, and easy access to public transportation. These features help residents dramatically ... if they use abandoned urban lots instead of farmlands, or if they design compact neighborhoods that allow residents to walk rather than drive to stores, offices, and parks. Because ...
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Congress for the New Urbanism
Most Walkable Neighborhoods CNU News Housing Market Turmoil and Rising Gas Prices Reveal Lasting Value of Urbanism: Economic, environmental concerns tarnish sprawl's appeal CNU Video Shows How Walkable Urbanism Can Reduce Driving and Slash Carbon Emissions: Like switching out all of your light bulbs thirty five times Traditional Mixed-Use Neighborhoods Protect Home ...
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About Smart Growth | Smart Growth | US EPA
By designing neighborhoods that have shops, offices, schools, churches, parks, and other amenities near ... neighborhoods, the Smart Growth Network developed a set of ten basic principles: Mix land uses Take advantage of compact building design Create a range of housing opportunities and choices Create walkable neighborhoods ...
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Smart Growth Illustrated | Smart Growth | US EPA
Housing Opportunities and Choices Hismen Hin-Nu Terrace, Oakland, CA Benedict Commons, Aspen, CO Create Walkable Neighborhoods Northwest Landing, DuPont, WA Bethesda Row, Bethesda, MD Foster Distinctive, Attractive Communities with a Strong ...
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Smart Growth and Sprawl
... policies that support: development focused on existing communities a range of housing choices walkable neighborhoods attractive communities with a sense of place mixed land uses preservation of ... of existing urban centers, reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of real neighborhoods and diverse districts, conservation of natural environments and preservation of the built legacy ...
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Greenbelt Alliance | About Us
Our cities and towns have attractive, walkable neighborhoods with a vibrant mix of homes, shops, restaurants, and offices. The Bay Area’s communities ... and transit, with homes for people of all income levels. Advocating for policies that create walkable neighborhoods with homes people can afford, where they can walk, bike, and take transit easily ...
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Greenbelt Alliance | Resource Center
Climate-Friendly Development We can't successfully address climate change without creating more walkable neighborhoods, according to a new report. “Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and ... This is your opportunity to tell city leaders what you think. Speak up for walkable, vibrant neighborhoods with robust public transportation and homes for everyone. When: Saturday October 13, 9 ...
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Central Park Turns 150 and Other Cities Take Note
And, as the 20th century approached, the playground movement brought recreation to these neighborhoods as well. Sadly, such park visions languished. In the car-bred flight from ... From countless urban foot trails to mountain paths, along waterfront edges and former brownfields, walkable neighborhoods with green space have reinvigorated their economies and retained their populations. A Window ...
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Sizing Up Boston's Landscape and Cityscape: Year End Roses and Radishes for 2000
Citation Pressing forward from the dim days of swipe and hype when old neighborhoods were leveled for new housing, Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development has tucked ... walkable neighborhoods, finally reversed the handout. Credit Historic Massachusetts for pushing to stem the flight to the outskirts and preserving the handsome but down-at-the-heels schools that anchor their neighborhoods ...
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Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - UT Library Online
Collection) Alaska - Kasatochi Volcano (Alaska Volcano Observatory) U.S. Gas Price Map (GasBuddy) U.S. Walkable Neighborhoods (Walk Score) Online Maps of General Interest Maps of The World Maps of Africa Maps ...
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