Playbook for Green Buildings + Neighborhoods | Act | Neighborhoods

Keeping track of actions being taken by leading cities helps to establish the cutting edge of green and show what is possible.

Trinity River Corridor in Dallas, Texas. Courtesy of: City of Dallas

This page highlights some actions that are being taken by cities that have already made progress on creating green neighborhoods. Below that is a growing list of short articles about specific initiatives.

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Read more: You can read more about recent examples of leading actions, submitted by project partners and other cities, by clicking on each title in the list below.

Forest City Stapleton, Denver Colorado
Stapleton is an award-winning master planned community on a former airport site outside Denver, CO. Designed as a sustainable community, it will accommodate 12,000 homes and 13 million square feet of commercial space over the next 15 years.

Public infrastructure costs for sites close to city centers were just 10% of those for projects in the suburbs. (Hagler Bailley Services, 1999)