Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Smart Growth

State DOTs Let Roads Fall Apart While Splurging on Highway Expansion

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 12, 2014 | No Comments

Even though 33 percent of its roads are in “poor” condition, West Virginia spends about 73 percent of its road budget building new roads and adding lanes. Mississippi spends 97 percent of its road money on expansion. Texas, 82 percent. Smart Growth America reports that the 50 states and the District of Columbia, combined, devote 55 […]

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Warning Signs From Columbus About America’s Big Suburban Housing Glut

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 24, 2014 | No Comments

Columbus, Ohio, is a convenient microcosm of the United States as a whole. Demographically, Columbus closely resembles America. That’s one reason the city ends up being a battleground for presidential candidates every four years, and why fast food chains like to test new menu items there. Because Columbus is so, well, typical, the city also […]

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Q&A With Robert Grow: How Utah Decided to Embrace “Quality Growth”

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 2, 2013 | No Comments

If you’ve ever wondered how a deep-red state like Utah has managed to build some of the most ambitious transit expansions in the country, the short answer is: Envision Utah. Starting in the late nineties, the non-profit Envision Utah brought together an incredibly broad spectrum of interests, including plenty of people without a specific stake in […]

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Study: Kids Who Live in Walkable Neighborhoods Get More Exercise

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 11, 2013 | No Comments

A study published this month in the American Journal of Preventive Health finds that children who live in walkable places — “smart growth neighborhoods,” to use the authors’ phrase — get significantly more exercise than their peers who live in suburban environments designed for driving. Researchers from UC Berkeley monitored the activity of 59 children […]

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The Defense Department’s Embrace of Livability Will Save Money — and Lives

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 20, 2013 | No Comments

On Tuesday, we wrote about the Defense Department’s new rules for the design of their bases and installations. These rules make smart growth the law of the land on hundreds of vast military installations in the U.S. and abroad. There’s more to the story: In this post we examine how a smart growth development model […]

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New Pentagon Mandate: Make Military Bases Livable, That’s an Order!

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 18, 2013 | No Comments

This article is the first in a series about the U.S. military’s new embrace of smart growth planning. “The largest redevelopment opportunity in the world is at the Department of Defense.” Rep. Earl Blumenauer wasn’t exaggerating when he uttered those words to an audience of smart-growth developers earlier this month. While U.S. DOT, the EPA, […]

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