Urban Issues: Silicon Valley Housing, San Ysidro Culture Exchange, HUD Partnerships, City Budget Solving
May 6, 2013
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Problem with Silicon Valley, No Housing Boom
Slate Moneybox
The enormous wealth that’s pouring into Silicon Valley ought to be trickling down to at least some extent as a vast array of local service providers gain jobs and income as chefs, waiters, doctors, nurses, yoga instructors, gardeners, interior decorators, taxi drivers, accountants, opthamologists, tailors, and housekeepers to the new money elite.
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Urbanism & Design: Why Retail Matters, Urbanism w/o Effort, Walkability, Woonerfs
May 3, 2013
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Why Retail Matters
Better Cities and Towns
Recently I criticized the design of a supposedly nonpolluting, “net zero” Walgreens in Evanston, Illinois.
Read On Urbanism without Effort My Urbanist As many of you know, I’ve spent many exciting and rewarding years exploring and documenting cities around the world, as a land use/environmental attorney, as a writer, and for my own enjoyment.
Read On Urbanism without Effort My Urbanist As many of you know, I’ve spent many exciting and rewarding years exploring and documenting cities around the world, as a land use/environmental attorney, as a writer, and for my own enjoyment.
Urban Issues: Mel Watt FHFA, SF Ellis Act Maps, San Gabriel Valley Asian Population Growth, Suing Blight
May 3, 2013
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Tech Sets Up Shop in NYC’s DUMBO Neighborhood
USA Today
Aaron Shapiro, CEO of digital agency Huge, remembers what it was like to set up shop in the area known as DUMBO 10 years ago.
Read On Mel Watt Tapped to Lead FHFA National Housing Conference Open House Yesterday, President Obama nominated Representative Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance…
Read On Mel Watt Tapped to Lead FHFA National Housing Conference Open House Yesterday, President Obama nominated Representative Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance…
Urbanism & Design: Toronto's Waterfront Value, Shared Streets in LA, Smarter Smart Growth
May 2, 2013
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Toronto Waterfront Generated Twice the Revenue Spent
680 News Toronto
Waterfront Toronto is doing some bragging about taxpayers’ money being well spent. It has released a study that finds revitalizing the waterfront has generated more than twice the value of public investment to date.
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Urban Issues: Blighted Properties, Spanish Country Life, Naming Streets in Berlin, Food Deserts
May 2, 2013
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Baltimore Community Groups Sue Blighted Property Owners
Baltimore Sun, via: @RWhelanWSJ
Six Baltimore community groups filed an $8 million lawsuit Tuesday against a Texas man whose companies own dozens of properties in the city, alleging that he failed to improve rundown homes after purchasing them at tax sales and allowed them to become a danger.
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Urbanism & Design: Burying I-35, Urban Spaces, Web Places, Building Heights in Aspen
May 1, 2013
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Cabinet Okays new Bangkok City Plan
The Nation Thailand
The Cabinet yesterday approved a new Bangkok City Plan to replace the one in use since 2006 and due to expire on May 15. Property-industry observers say the new plan will open up new locations for development near the mass-transit routes.
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Urban Issues: Parks and Sex Offenders, Preservation Tax Credits, Necessary Slums
May 1, 2013
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Building Mini Parks to Get Rid of Housed Sex Offenders
Governing
Many municipalities prohibit sex offenders from living near parks. L.A. and Miami are taking it one step further and calling patches of grass “parks” in order to rid their cities of the offenders
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Urbanism & Design: Texas Stadium Redevelopment, Science of Parking, SEPTA Wayne TOD
April 30, 2013
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Texas Stadium Redevelopment Taking Place
NBC Dallas Fort Worth
An urban resort, a mixed use village and an eco-community were some of the initial visions Irving city leaders had when they knew the Texas Stadium would no longer host football fans.
Read On Mapping the Subtle Science of Parking Demand The Atlantic Cities In the absence of nuanced data about…
Read On Mapping the Subtle Science of Parking Demand The Atlantic Cities In the absence of nuanced data about…
Urban Issues: HUD Downsizing, Eds and Meds, Turin's Resurgence and Paris' Governance
April 30, 2013
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The Boom and Bust Cycle of Urban Investment
New York Times
FOR the past several years all the ingredients have been in place for an urban crisis. Unemployment has hovered above 15 percent in many of our most distressed cities.
Read On Paris’ Future Governance, a Discussion w Deputy Mayor Stephane Kirkland As Paris’s Deputy Mayor in charge of “Paris Metropole” and relations with the region’s…
Read On Paris’ Future Governance, a Discussion w Deputy Mayor Stephane Kirkland As Paris’s Deputy Mayor in charge of “Paris Metropole” and relations with the region’s…
Are We There Yet? The Bias Of Traffic Engineering
April 30, 2013
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Editor's Note: Walkable neighborhoods and bike-friendly streets are all the rage but its road rage and the legacy of decades of auto-oriented bias slowing the creation of complete communities. The impact of the automobile bias of traffic engineering is the topic of today's excerpt from Are We There Yet?
Visit the Are We There Yet? home The shift away from auto-oriented neighborhoods to a design that is more friendly to pedestrians and bicyclists is difficult because the tools used on a daily basis by traffic engineers have a built-in bias toward the interests of drivers. Travel models, for example, predict the future need for roads based on the need in the past, instead of recognizing that the priorities of Americans are changing. Studies have shown that people who live or work near transit are more likely to use it. This may seem like a no-brainer but conventional transportation models that are used to determine how…
Visit the Are We There Yet? home The shift away from auto-oriented neighborhoods to a design that is more friendly to pedestrians and bicyclists is difficult because the tools used on a daily basis by traffic engineers have a built-in bias toward the interests of drivers. Travel models, for example, predict the future need for roads based on the need in the past, instead of recognizing that the priorities of Americans are changing. Studies have shown that people who live or work near transit are more likely to use it. This may seem like a no-brainer but conventional transportation models that are used to determine how…
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