A great new handbook for beautifying and making crosswalks safer in walkability-challenged areas: https://ndc-md.org/journal/made-you-look-art-in-the-right-of-way?&utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=standard&utm_content=body&utm_term=blog

Arlington, an #innersuburb that has invested big in #greennetworks , gets top ranking on latest AARP livability index: http://ow.ly/Cblt50J5R5Y. See other examples in our video here: https://www.neighborspacebaltimorecounty.org/2021/10/16/how-cars-greed-turned-the-suburbs-gray-what-can-be-done-to-green-them-again/

Mystic River Watershed Association is working on six signature greenway projects to improve the livability of #innersuburbs near Boston: https://mysticriver.org/greenways

A timely and beautiful chronical of the creative and spiritual rewards of gardening: http://ow.ly/hpt050J2c7O

“The master plan is to build a place that’s a neighborhood, where you can get to everything within 15 minutes by bike or car on our campus, and then support that with really great amenities, technology, programming, design, culinary, and wellness …”: http://ow.ly/gsQI50GhkEX

Learn how cars and greed turned the #innersuburbs gray and what can be done to green them again this Wednesday, 9/29, via zoom. Free signup: http://ow.ly/sjkr50GhgO9

A society that shorts public transportation in favor of the private vehicle deprives the poor of any other way to move: http://ow.ly/oACL50Ghj8H

Join the Baltimore County Green Alliance this Thursday at 6:30 PM for a discussion on “How to Curb Bad Development & Create More Livable Communities in Baltimore County.” Sign up here: http://ow.ly/b35050Ghhen; Read more here: https://www.neighborspacebaltimorecounty.org/2021/09/19/we-the-people-an-equitable-growth-strategy-for-curbing-bad-development-creating-livable-communities/ We the People: An Equitable Growth Strategy for Curbing Bad Development & Creating Livable Communities – NeighborSpace of Baltimore […]

Thank you Clean Bread and Cheese Creek Community Cleanups, Wells McComas Citizens Improvement Association, Maryland Waterways Foundation, Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail for your help at Bear Creek Heritage Trail on Saturday. Learn more here: http://ow.ly/fMHI50Ghglb

Not shocking, but new research shows that form-based codes produce better economic outcomes, lead to positive impacts for equity and equitable development, and provide the best zoning and regulatory framework for good smart growth development: https://smartgrowthamerica.org/in-the-zone-with-form-based-codes/