10,000 Trees Registered for Community Fruit Exchange
Imagine a community where fresh, seasonal, affordable, local fruit is easily accessible to everyone--from low-income families to fancy foodies. Instea...
Imagine a community where fresh, seasonal, affordable, local fruit is easily accessible to everyone--from low-income families to fancy foodies. Instea...
Reverend Billy | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York
The city-as-monoculture can only continue with surveillance, stop-and-frisks, eminent domain, developer tax windfalls and all the illegal activity brazenly called Progress and New York Greatness.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green
Most small New England cities were once booming industrial centers, but over time they became subject to considerable disinvestment in the form of plant closings, job losses, weakened civic infrastructure, and shrinking tax bases.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
As has been the case with a lot of the Boston Asian Community Development Corporation's great projects and partnerships, someone had a good idea, ran with it, and created just a little more community than there was before in the neighborhood.
Alfred Gingold | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York
This is Brooklyn, where the weirdos are more than part of the passing parade; they live here.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green
One of the goals of smart growth must be to create neighborhoods that foster "aging in place."
John F. Wasik | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
Pedestrian-friendly cities can make huge personal economic sense. If you don't need a car, you can save thousands a year.
Angie Cordeiro | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
Wells Fargo made a mistake and has received over $25 billion dollars to correct it. Dollars that the bank said would be used to help stop foreclosures... I see no bailout.
Anna Kelner | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green
A subway could not only cleanse Los Angeles' polluted air and clear its congested roads, but could also radically change the way Angelinos relate to one another.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
We need compact development, not large lots, to protect our waterways. But how do we soften the localized impacts of density and deal with the stormwater that runs off of dense urban sites?
ABC News | STEPHANE FITCH and MATTHEW WOOLSEY | Posted 08.04.2009 | Business
Has the housing market scraped bottom? Not in some of the wealthier neighborhoods -- places like New York City's Greenwich Village, Santa Monica, Cali...
Kim Callahan | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
Times are tough, every day we hear how businesses, government agencies, and charities are struggling, but so are some of your neighbors.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
Suddenly people who two years ago wouldn't give smart growth advocates the time of day are talking about things like transit-oriented development and growth boundaries.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
Cincinnati's historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood is poised to become one of America's greatest revitalization stories, in the process creating a national exemplar of sustainable development.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green
Let's be honest -- HUD has become the Department of Subsidized Housing, and that must change. We've got to put the "UD" (urban development) back in HUD.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.11.2009 | Green
Suburban sprawl as we have known it may not be dead but it is surely not well, and we are already seeing the beginning of its end.
Reverend Billy | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
The Vote Rev Billy community meets again tonight, 50 intense people. Wrestling with issues, readying position papers. Going back to basics in our d...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
We are blessed with many community-based libraries, all within a few miles of one another in North Arlington. Would it really be such an inconvenience to cut the hours of one?
Kate Clinton | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
This is the first Tuesday after the Democratic primaries and it is blistering hot in New York. For days it had been rainy and cool and then suddenly,...
AP | Rachel Konrad | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Hoping to woo shoppers who say eBay Inc. has lost its folksy appeal, the world's largest online auction plans to launch its own version of a social ne...
Carole Carson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green