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Kaid Benfield
Senior counsel, environmental strategies, PlaceMakers, LLC; former director for sustainable communities, @NRDC.
The skinny on healthy neighborhoods
People tend to get more exercise, leading to a powerful salutory effect on health, in neighborhoods with four characteristics.
Is placemaking a 'new environmentalism?'
If our approach to environmentalism should be "new," so too should our approach to urbanism.