Village Green: For cities to be an environmental solution, we need to address public safety
23 Nov 2009 - F. Kaid Benfield, Director of NRDC's Smart Growth Program | TheHuffington Post
In his blog on The Huffington Post, NRDC's F. Kaid Benfield stresses the importance of public safety in environmental solutions, and cites the work and accomplishments of LISC and its Community Safety Initiative.
"...To slow the spread of development willy-nilly across the landscape, we need to repopulate our central cities, many of which lost population in the latter half of the 20th century. We're starting to make some real progress on that but, to grow that progress and make it stick, we need to get serious about crime." Continued[+]...
> Read the full blog entry on The Huffington Post
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