London’s Shard tower, soon to be the tallest in Europe, is, financially speaking, a bit puzzling. Europe is in the midst of an economic crisis, and London’s Southwark, across from the skyscraper-crazed City of London, is gentrifying, but not the safest place for a massive real estate investment. The developers have yet to sign a [...]
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December 31st, 2011 | Tags: energy, real estate | Category: Arts & Entertainment, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, World Affairs | Comments are closed |  printable view2011 is almost over, so it’s the last week I’ll be able to run random NYC street grid facts with the excuse that it’s the 200th anniversary of New York‘s 1811 Commissioners’ Plan! This WSJ blog post on the high cost of filming in Manhattan rare alleyways reminded me of these bits from Richard Pluntz’s [...] Quick, are you at the computer reading this around 2 a.m. Wednesday eastern time??… Continue reading at Forbes… If you’ve ever done a Google Scholar search for anything zoning related, you’ll probably recognize the name William Fischel. He’s an economic historian at Dartmouth who’s written a lot about local government, and especially land use regulations. He’s got a wide-ranging paper published in 2004 called “An Economic History of Zoning and a Cure for [...] December 22nd, 2011 | Tags: real estate | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Places & Spaces, Style & Design | Comments are closed | printable viewSurprise surprise, students at New York‘s existing universities are choosing to go into computer science even without a bling-y contest over land, favors, and cash worth hundreds of millions of dollars! Reporteth the WSJ: When city officials launched a competition last year to build an applied-sciences campus on Manhattan‘s Roosevelt Island, they hoped an outpost [...] This post originally appeared at Neighborhood Effects, a Mercatus Center blog where we write about the economics of state and local policy.
Via Flickr user Ian Caldwell Next week, New York Governor Cuomo is likely to sign a bill that will marginally increase competition in the NYC cab market. The new rule will [...] December 21st, 2011 | Category: Economics, Transportation, Uncategorized | 7 comments | printable viewThe sky's the limit for Dumbo! Last night I wrote a blog post about tech development in New York City, arguing that before the city pours money into a science campus for Cornell on Roosevelt Island, its planners should make more room for entrepreneurs in existing tech hubs like Union Square and Dumbo. …
December 20th, 2011 | Tags: real estate, regulation | Category: America's Most Promising Companies, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Entrepreneurs, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Management, Places & Spaces, Policy, Social Media, Style & Design, Tech, Techonomy | Comments are closed | printable view |
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A Roosevelt Island Campus To Make Le Corbusier Proud
Cornell-Technion has released another “fly-over” video, this one focused on the interior. But it does shed a bit more light on what the development will look like from the ground, and it ain’t pretty – the campus will be laid out in a fairly Corbusian plan, replete with lots of concrete plazas and grassy knolls [...]