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Sustainable Communities

 
Sustainable communities are communities planned, built or modified to promote sustainable living. They tend to focus on environmental sustainability (including development and agriculture) and economic sustainability. Sustainable communities can focus on sustainable urban infrastructure and/or sustainable municipal infrastructure. (Photo: Flickr)

Articles about Sustainable Communities

  • How the street failed Trayvon Martin

    Wed, Mar 28 2012 at 9:33 AM

    Numerous observers have noted that Trayvon Martin was killed on the streets of a gated community for the crime of 'walking while black.' His murder was aided and abetted by a failed urban design model tragically lacking in 'eyes on the street.'

  • Sustainable cities of the future

    Tue, Mar 27 2012 at 4:41 PM

    Here are 6 fresh ideas about how cities can adapt for a more sustainable future.

  • Global green cities

    Thu, Mar 22 2012 at 5:00 PM

    These 10 cities are among the world's greenest, encompassing all of the positive qualities that can make urban living more healthy, pleasant and sensitive to nearby ecosystems.

  • Make It Right makes it halfway

    Mon, Mar 12 2012 at 9:00 AM

    As Make It Right passes the halfway mark with 76 affordable green homes built in New Orleans, the foundation throws a fundraising fête to help ensure that the remaining 74 are completed by the end of 2013.

  • Wild orchard: A food forest grows in Seattle

    Wed, Mar 07 2012 at 8:00 PM

    Taking Seattle's P-Patch concept to dizzying, permaculture-tastic new heights, a 7-acre plot of unused land in the middle of the city will be transformed into the nation's largest 'food forest.'

  • Nature-City: Suburban housing for agrarians at heart

    Mon, Mar 05 2012 at 12:44 PM

    Conceived for the MoMA exhibit 'Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,' the Nature-City development in Oregon is a response to the question: 'What if we could live sustainably and close to nature?'

  • Tempe feeling many positive, unexpected benefits from light rail

    Fri, Mar 02 2012 at 5:28 PM

    Project that some thought too expensive when it was proposed has won converts by clearing up blighted areas and bringing in economic development.

  • What future cities can learn from 179-year-old Italian roads

    Thu, Mar 01 2012 at 1:52 PM

    The city of Groane was never formally planned, but looking at historical records, scientists think that they can form a mathematical model to predict growth.

  • 5 ways to make public transit awesome

    Wed, Feb 08 2012 at 12:06 PM

    From train tracks as urban gardens to bus stops as art installations, here are five exciting ways cities around the world are making transit awesome now.

  • Scotland helps Abu Dhabi build a green city

    Tue, Jan 24 2012 at 3:30 PM

    The low-carbon city is designed to ultimately house 40,000 people, offering transport by electric vehicle and a range of other green energy projects.

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