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Pretty interesting article in the NYT today about the Gotham West development that recently broke ground on Manhattan‘s far west side. But I think the part about affordable housing could use some context: But the bulk of the project will be affordable units, 682 of them, or more than half the total homes….
January 9th, 2012 | Tags: politics, real estate, regulation | Category: Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Law, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design | Comments are closed |  printable viewThere’s been a lot of handwringing by American lefties over the austerity plans that Germany is asking indebted eurozone governments like Italy and Greece to implement in exchange for bailouts, but many aspects of the plans – especially labor market deregulation – are long overdue no matter which side if the aisle you sit on [...] January 7th, 2012 | Tags: energy, politics, regulation, retail | Category: Autos, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, International, Law, Logistics & Transportation, Management, Places & Spaces, Players, Policy, Style & Design, Taxes & Law, Travel, Vehicles, World Affairs | Comments are closed | printable viewScrapping viaducts like this would make California HSR cheaper, faster to build, and easier to maintain, without a loss in quality The recent peer review report recommending that California delay construction on the first segment of its high-speed rail project has caused a bit of consternation in the transit twittosphere. Blogger The Overhead Wire [...] January 6th, 2012 | Tags: energy, politics, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Tech, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed | printable viewEarlier today Urban Photo Blog tweeted earlier today a link to an article about Hong Kong’s latest land reclamation project, with an obviously sarcastic “because it worked so well in Dubai!” tacked on at the end. Not to pick on Urban Photo Blog – actually, his Twitter account is definitely one of the best I follow [...] January 6th, 2012 | Tags: energy, real estate | Category: Best Places for Business and Careers, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Human Ingenuity, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, video, Wall Street, World Affairs | Comments are closed | printable viewAre America's private railroading glory days gone forever? The folks at Freakonomics have asked me to contribute to a “Quorum” on Amtrak and whether it can ever be profitable. Maybe I was a sucker, but it looks like I hewed closer to the question that some of the other contributors…. Continue reading at [...] January 5th, 2012 | Tags: energy, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Entrepreneurs, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Management, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed | printable viewEnormous viaducts like this are one reason for the project's ballooning cost estimates Well, the other shoe has finally dropped: the California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group is recommending that the state legislature not authorize the issue of $2.7 billion in bonds to begin paying for the state’s planned $98.5 billion high-speed rail line…. Continue [...] January 3rd, 2012 | Tags: energy, politics, real estate | Category: Autos, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed | printable viewCornell-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 [...] December 22nd, 2011 | Tags: politics, real estate, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Op/Ed, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Tech, Vehicles | Comments are closed | printable view |
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“Upzoning means up yours!” Links
1. The title quote comes from this gem of an LA Weekly article about proposed changes to Hollywood’s zoning code which would allow for taller buildings and denser development. According to the Weekly, “For decades, zoning that governs height and size has preserved thousands of affordable, low-slung, older apartments, bungalows and commercial buildings in Hollywood.” [...]