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Roger Lewis's Rx for greening a city
Posted on September 29, 2008
I've long been a fan of University of Maryland architecture professor Roger Lewis, especially for his Shaping the City columns in The Washington Post. Roger was articulating the principles of smart growth and livable urbanism long before the rest of us, and his column has in many ways been a model for this blog.In his newest entry, Thinking of Bolder Shades of Green, Roger poses the question whether we can go beyond green building techniques and greener personal choices such as using CFL light bulbs and make an entire city green. He lays out seven sensible principles for doing so...
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