[Greenbuilding] Green Building Article

[Alan Abrams]

Interesting article--it's notable that some thirty-odd years ago a unique
coalition of Maryland suburbanites and DC inner city citizens successfully
fought off the completion of I-95, from a point just north of the Capitol
Building, to where the Baltimore leg of 95 hits the northern loop of the
Beltway.  

http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2006/05/white-mans-road-thru-black-
mans-home.html


Alan Abrams    

  
Our Generation's Urban Renewal?

by Bill Walsh, National Coordinator
Healthy Building Network
I-95 N Cross Bronx Expressway
Photo by Steve Alpert

September 13, 2006

Four months after the death of New York's urban visionary Jane Jacobs 
(May 4, 1916 -- April 25, 2006) [1], I found myself jockeying for 
position on the Cross Bronx Expressway stretch of Interstate 95. [2] By 
the time of her death, Jacobs was revered; and the philosophy of urban 
renewal she opposed was reviled. But I-95's monotonous lacerations 
through cities from Boston to Washington, DC remain monuments to the 
limits of Jacobs' contemporary influence. I wondered: how will history 
judge the structures that will define our generation's green building 
legacy?

Urban Renewal, like the Green Building movement, was inspired and 
catalyzed by some of the best and brightest design professionals of its 
generation. Their persuasive vision promised to link financial success 
and social well-being within a pleasing aesthetic.