Smart Growth Around America

Geoff Anderson, Smart Growth America CEO

Smart Growth America CEO Geoff Anderson appeared on a recent Island Press panel to discuss “How Policy Influences Development,” specifically with regard to transportation infrastructure. He spoke alongside Chris Leinberger, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution; Lawrence Frank, Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportation at the University of British Columbia; [...]

Last spring, Chris Leinberger wrote in The Atlantic that the pendulum was slowly shifting away from suburban life due to our country’s changing demographics, growing public demand for “urban” amenities like walkable neighborhoods and better transportation options, and the overbuilding of exurban housing — far from jobs and highly inconvenient when gas gets expensive.

View of Puget Sound. Creative Commons Flickr photo by Chas Redmond.

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Learn more about CSG & PEC’s “Blueprint for a Better Region” vision for the DC Region

While we’ve done much to clean up our water sources [...]

Governor Glendening addresses the conference attendees in Albuquerque after receiving his lifetime achievement award.

Governor Parris Glendening, who serves SGA as the President of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, received a few notable recognitions earlier in 2009.
In January Gov. Glendening received a lifetime achievement award at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in Albuquerque, [...]

Smart Growth America’s Restoring Prosperity campaign, which provides help for revitalizing our aging industrial cities, recently released four more policy packages for use by state advocates.  These packages are the part of a series of six policy recommendations for how state and city governments can transform struggling cities into places where anyone would want to [...]

Happy Earth Day everyone! One of the smartest things about smart growth is the way it takes care of the needs of people alongside the demands of the environment.
So whatever your Earth day plans — if you’re planting a tree in the park, going to see the new Disney “Earth” movie, making a spherical cake [...]

Tell your Members of Congress to support Complete Streets today!

Half of all trips taken in metro areas are three miles or less and 28% are one mile or less — yet 65% of those trips take place in a car.
A recent poll from the National Association of Realtors found that 83% of respondents would prefer [...]