Smart Growth America
Commentary: Best Foot Forward
Dear Denver: We met on Walk Score. Hello, again. I’m the woman who was looking to move from a mountain town of 450 people to you – you with public transportation and a large public library system and the symphony and museums and movie theaters and neighborhoods to walk.
April 26, 2021
This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar
Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years, and the one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.
March 9, 2021
Smart Growth America Equity Summit envisions a community-lead approach to planning


February 2, 2021
There is Still Structural Racism in Transportation: Report
Cities must include community members in planning, hire more diverse staff, and stop displacing residents to combat generations of structural racism in our car-dependent society that has long favored suburban commuters in single-family homes over poorer communities riven by highways and pollution, a new report argues. Smart Growth America’s report, “The State of Transportation and […]
December 18, 2019