Issues: Smart Growth


Picturing Smarth Growth

Cities and towns across the country are embracing smart growth as a better solution to meet the needs of their growing populations. See visions for how 70 U.S. communities could apply smart growth principles that accommodate growth and development while saving open space, revitalizing neighborhoods and helping cool the planet.




News and Issues Highlights
Smart Growth on Switchboard
Kaid BenfieldNRDC's Kaid Benfield, one of the nation's leading smart growth advocates, writes almost daily about the intersections between development, community and the environment on NRDC's blog.

LEED for Neighborhood Development
New standards created by an NRDC partnership are providing a guide for developers and communities to build greener neighborhoods.

Affordable Green Housing
The Green Communities Initiative is building thousands of affordable, environmentally friendly homes across the country.

If You Build It, They Will Come
Smart growth strategies can save Americans thousands of dollars a year in transportation costs while improving quality of life and the environment. Get the facts.


What You Can Do
See how communities like yours are fighting sprawl

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Switchboard Blogs

More on Charlotte's urban renaissance, stimulated by transit
posted by Kaid Benfield, 1/9/09
Apologies for the light posting . . .
posted by Kaid Benfield, 1/8/09
Huge timber company backs off plans to develop Montana forest land
posted by Kaid Benfield, 1/6/09