{"id":14135,"date":"2014-10-07T20:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T02:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=14135"},"modified":"2014-10-07T20:25:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T02:25:34","slug":"better-cities-towns-for-smart-growth-not-all-density-is-created-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=14135","title":{"rendered":"Better! Cities &#038; Towns | For smart growth, not all density is created equal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bettercities.net\/news-opinion\/blogs\/kaid-benfield\/21315\/smart-growth-not-all-density-created-equal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/15448740305_ec64a6f253_z_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you ever noticed how those of us who promote walkable, &#8216;smart growth&#8217; city neighborhoods often choose historic districts to illustrate what we advocate? &#8230; We show these neighborhoods because we know people will like them and, we believe, associate them favorably our cause, in effect thinking, &#8216;this smart growth stuff is pretty attractive.&#8217;\u00a0 And I submit that a huge reason why people feel attracted to and comfortable in historic neighborhoods is not just because of their familiarity and walkability but also because they present urban density at a human scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire post: <a href=\"http:\/\/bettercities.net\/news-opinion\/blogs\/kaid-benfield\/21315\/smart-growth-not-all-density-created-equal\">For smart growth, not all density is created equal | Better! Cities &amp; Towns Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Have you ever noticed how those of us who promote walkable, &#8216;smart growth&#8217; city neighborhoods often choose historic districts to illustrate what we advocate? &#8230; We show these neighborhoods because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[105,97,99,103,51,920],"class_list":["post-14135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-architecture","tag-density","tag-height-limits","tag-historic-district","tag-preservation","tag-urban-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14173,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions\/14173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}