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Q & A with Author Anthony Flint

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Anthony Flint, author of the new book, “This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America.” covered planning and transportation issues for the Boston Globe before leaving several months ago to help his home state of Massachusetts communicate with citizens about its smart growth programs. He recently was named public affairs director of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge. In a conversation with SGA’s communications director, David Goldberg, Flint talks about his emerging optimism.

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Gov. Glendening: "Americans demand more and better options"

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After years of inactivity while gasoline was cheap, leaders are now scrambling to “do something” about the high gas prices that are making life difficult for everyday Americans. The solutions range from short-sighted (drill ANWR) to ultimately ineffective (national speed limit), and most fail to address the core issue that makes gas prices matter so … Continued

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Rethinking traffic congestion

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This video comes to us from Sightline up in the Pacific Northwest. I’d summarize it myself, but Sightline’s Eric de Place does it better himself: It’s difficult to illustrate the opportunities that are available now on our roads. We don’t need big expensive building projects, just smarter systems that protect both our pocketbooks and our … Continued

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The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Brownfields Redevelopment

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This report by Evans Paull of the Northeast-Midwest Institute, “seeks to summarize established quantifiable impacts of brownfields redevelopment in the areas of environmental, economic, community, and fiscal effects. The approach is primarily a literature review. The author has relied on existing research, which has been assembled, compared, and analyzed in order to highlight the most relevant data and reconcile different findings.”

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Ask your representative to provide real alternatives to driving & high gas prices

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The picture is the same everywhere you look. You’ve been reading it here, in your newspaper, or watching it on the television nearly nonstop for the last few weeks: Gas is expensive, driving is down, transit systems are packed. Here in D.C., people are abandoning their cars and taking Metro in record numbers to save … Continued

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What do houses in distant suburbs and low-mileage cars have in common?

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Unfortunately for the owners of either, they’re both losing value. That’s the connection — echoed by SGA — in a Wall Street Journal piece this morning on today’s front page by Ana Campoy on gasoline consumption and miles driven trending downwards, and how it’s beginning to drastically affect Americans’ housing and transportation choices: Meanwhile, people … Continued

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SGA testimony before House Committee

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As we mentioned earlier, SGA communications director David Goldberg testified earlier this morning before the House Select Committee on Global Warming and Energy Independence. If you are so inclined, you can download the testimony of all the presenters on the committee’s home for this hearing. David’s testimony is available to download here (pdf). Some highlights: … Continued

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