Monthly Archives: December 2002

Index of Weblog Posts – December 2002

December 31, 2002 – 6:59 am

Smart Growth: Stoking the Fires Fighting Fat on Two Fronts: Regional Growth and Personal Girth Regional Business Leadership: The ”Absentocracy” Dilemma

By Farley Peters | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)

Smart Growth: Stoking the Fires

December 30, 2002 – 6:59 am

My current column has two smart growth/new century focuses. One is the efforts and achievements of the Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, founded in 1999, directed by Ben Starrett and chaired by Hooper Brooks of the Surdna Foundation. The other is what appears to be a breakthrough experiment in Vermont to gather [...]

By Neal Peirce | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)

FIGHTING FAT ON TWO FRONTS: Regional Growth and Personal Girth

December 16, 2002 – 2:38 pm

BOULDER — To the iconic sounds of Joni Mitchell wailing “They paved over paradise and put in a parking lot,” the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation assembled a new coalition here last month. Planners, architects, and developers — people you’d ordinarily see at an Urban Land Institute gathering — sat down with doctors, fitness experts and [...]

By Curtis Johnson | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)