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Healing Our Highways Convening: Atlanta, GA

By Courtney Cole · May 23, 2024

Healing Our Highways is a grant program led by Smart Growth America’s Arts and Culture team providing funding and technical assistance for arts and culture projects that confront the harms perpetuated through our transportation system on marginalized communities of color. On May 15, 2024, a cozy Filipino restaurant in a suburban Atlanta Asian shopping plaza was filled with energy, connection, and delicious food as the Healing Our Highways cohort of artists and cultural workers deliberated on strategies for community organizing, building power, and making change.

Rays of hope: National City & Southeast San Diego’s Community Connectors story

By Benito Pérez · May 22, 2024

After many decades of being divided by highways, community members in National City, CA are building capacity to reconnect their community in a project that will also acknowledge their community’s heritage and future.

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Request for proposals: Web developer with data visualization experience

By Eric Cova · May 16, 2024

Smart Growth America (SGA) and Transportation for America (T4A) are seeking a web developer with significant data visualization experience to build a user-friendly data hub by updating the t4america.org website so that advocates can better understand how transportation funding is being allocated and spent. This developer may also be retained to facilitate site updates over … Continued

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Bridging the gap: How the U.S. is starting to address wildlife-vehicle collisions

By Courtney Cole · May 14, 2024

Our built environment can pose a threat to animals, encroaching upon their habitats, interrupting their migratory patterns, and exposing them to risk of being hit and killed by vehicles. Federal funding opportunities are available to reduce these risks, which would have benefits for humans and animals alike.

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Meet the Healing Our Highways grant recipients

By Courtney Cole · April 16, 2024

Smart Growth America is excited to announce the recipients of the Healing Our Highways grant program. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kresge Foundation, Healing Our Highways will support creative ideas and activities that build knowledge, connection, and power within disadvantaged communities harmed by transportation systems and climate change. Beginning … Continued

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New survey: Accessible Streetscapes for the Disability Community

By London Weier · April 10, 2024

A new survey created in collaboration with Smart Growth America, the International Parking and Mobility Institute, and Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund aims to collect the experiences of people with disabilities navigating our streets.

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Accessible Streetscape Design Survey for the Disability Community

By Eric Cova · April 10, 2024

You are invited to participate in a research study being conducted by Smart Growth America, supported by the International Parking & Mobility Institute and the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund. The research team is seeking to learn more about the needs and challenges people with disabilities meet when walking and rolling in their community. … Continued

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A Q&A with Megan Kimble, author of City Limits

By Steve Davis · April 10, 2024

In her new book City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways, investigative journalist Megan Kimble weaves together the origins of urban highways with the stories of people impacted by our transportation system—and she features a behind-the-scenes look at how SGA is working with a handful of communities to repair the damage of … Continued

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Webinar: Transportation electrification and smart growth in the U.S.

By Abigail Araya · April 10, 2024

On Tuesday, May 14 from 2 – 3 p.m., we’re partnering with the International Parking & Mobility Institute to offer a free webinar exploring smart growth strategies. Register here. Many climate advocates and pro-climate decision-makers are focused on electrification as the primary, or even only, emissions reduction solution in the transportation sector. As transportation advocates … Continued

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What is the future of walkability in St. Louis?

By Dustin Robertson · April 2, 2024

As part of a technical assistance project to help local decision makers understand the needs for better mobility and craft stronger policies, I recently had the opportunity to visit and explore one of the great cities of the Midwest–St. Louis, Missouri. Like most American cities, St. Louis clearly demonstrates the impacts of design that prioritizes high-speed driving and punishes all other forms of mobility.

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