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 [...]
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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 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 viewStanford's (losing) vision for Roosevelt Island, with requisite acres of green Big news out of New York City: Stanford pulled out of Bloomberg’s applied sciences university “competition” after Cornell got an enormous donation, leaving the upstate university the front runner to build a new campus, likely on Roosevelt Island. This comes with up to $100 [...] December 18th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, real estate, regulation | Category: America's Most Promising Companies, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Entrepreneurs, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Human Ingenuity, Innovation & Science, Intelligent Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Pharma & Healthcare, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Taxes & Law, Tech | Comments are closed | printable view |
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Cutting Costs On California HSR Doesn’t Have To Add Delays
Scrapping 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 [...]