Green building as a concept and “green” approaches to community development have had parallel but distinct and sometimes conflicting paths. Only recently have they begun integrating. When New Urbanism was introduced it didn’t consider the environmental impact of individual buildings within a new urban development. It was about livability, designing around the needs of people rather than of cars. The environmental benefits were incidental.
On the other hand, green building proponents rarely took community development into account. This began to change when those responsible for green home rating programs realized what they were asking builders to do would be extremely challenging, if not impossible, without the context of green development.
Read the rest of the article in the September 2008 digitial edition of CitiesGoGreen magazine.
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