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Feature from Environmental Building News
March 1, 2009
Thinking Beyond Buildings:
LEED for Neighborhood Development
An Executive Summary is available for this article.
Imagine: on a Monday, you wake to breakfast in your energy- and water-efficient condominium. The kids head off to their neighborhood school on their bicycles, along the pathway that weaves through the park and adjoining housing clusters. Your spouse leaves for work, walking to the transit station several blocks away, and you walk to your office above the bookstore on Main Street. The walk to work is a pleasant one, along tree-lined streets past homes, shops, and offices in buildings of all shapes and sizes. Crossing the street is no problem at any of the intersection bump-outs that naturally calm the morning traffic on the narrow, sidewalk-lined streets....
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