Pollution and the pavement
Our transportation system’s impact on the environment isn’t caused by tailpipe emissions alone. Protecting the natural resources we depend on requires rethinking how we travel.
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Request for proposals: Event photographer and videographer
Smart Growth America (SGA) is seeking an experienced professional or team of professionals to use photography and videography to capture an upcoming event on October 17-18 in Washington, DC and produce a short narrative video afterward. Please submit proposals to Elisa Ramirez ([email protected]) by September 20. About Smart Growth America Smart Growth America (SGA) is … Continued
Now hiring: Staff Accountant
Smart Growth America is searching for a new Staff Accountant to add to its leadership, administration, and communications team. This person will support general accounting, financial reporting, and internal controls and compliance. About Smart Growth America Smart Growth America is a leading national non-profit organization advocating for equitable, sustainable land use, development, housing, and transportation, … Continued
The 2024 Form-Based Codes Award: Meet the jury
Form-based codes offer a significant advantage over auto-oriented, use-based land use regulations by focusing on the quality of the space between the buildings; the scale, placement, and facades of the buildings; the public and private open spaces; and the streetscapes. While form-based codes are inherently equitable, this year’s award emphasizes a deeper exploration of equitable … Continued
Building Resilience: Housing Access in Greater New Orleans Post-Disaster
As part of a Sustainable Growth webinar series for Climate Resilience Month in August, Smart Growth America’s Vice President of Land Use and Development, Katharine Burgess, participated in a webinar conversation that reflected on how the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has shaped housing and community resiliency in both the Gulf Coast region and our national … Continued
Extreme Heat Resilience: Video Screenings & Workshops in Atlanta
This July, Smart Growth America traveled to Atlanta to support the Partnership for Southern Equity’s (PSE) screenings of the video, “ATL Rising: Building resilience in the face of extreme heat,” which highlights the interactions between extreme heat, the built environment, and health equity in the city. The two video screenings brought together residents, activists, and … Continued
We need to protect vulnerable road users, not fine them
A recent response to the traffic safety crisis in New Mexico was yet another example of the status quo approach of criminalizing individual behavior—particularly the behavior of the most vulnerable—in an effort to make the full system safer. It’s time for a better approach.
Now hiring: Senior Program Manager, Land Use & Development
Smart Growth America is seeking a Senior Program Manager with 5-7 years of experience to lead and manage technical assistance projects and work in direct collaboration with the Director of Land Use and Development to advance SGA’s zoning reform and housing attainability portfolios. The Senior Program Manager will report to the Director of Land Use … Continued
Press release: Six counties selected for inaugural Counties for Housing Solutions cohort
The National Association of Counties (NACo) and Smart Growth America announced the launch of the first Counties for Housing Solutions (C4HS) cohort, a program designed to increase housing supply in urban counties.
Health equity and the built environment
From reduced opportunities to travel by bike or foot to a lack of parks and green spaces, our built environment actively contributes to the state of our physical and mental well-being, and nowhere is its negative impact felt more than in Black and Brown communities.