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By Stephen Smith, on April 12th, 2011
Maybe if the developer was allowed more than two stories, they'd spend more than 10 minutes designing the roof…
1. Hamburg’s newly-revitalized port could get a completely privately-funded cable car line, if the city allows it.
2. Quincy, Mass., a few T stops away from downtown Boston, is getting a new downtown from a [...]
By Stephen Smith, on April 8th, 2011
1. Maps of sprawl and gentrification in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, and Boston. At first the picture looks bleak for cities, but Jesus – even downtown Detroit is growing! (More here.)
2. A real, live Texan (just kidding – he lives in Austin) replies to O’Toole on parking.
3. Why aren’t (more) urbanists cheering on [...]
By Stephen Smith, on February 7th, 2011
Andrés Duany, leader of the New Urbanism movement, comes out against LEED standards:
He said that high-density development in urban locations which entail less reliance on private cars should get a free pass on energy efficiency or energy generation standards. ”Don’t make apartment dwellers install solar power,” he said. ”They are doing their part [...]
By Stephen Smith, on January 25th, 2011
1. Systemic Failure praises Gov. (again) Jerry Brown’s efforts to do away with California’s redevelopment agencies and “enterprise zones” (there’s a euphemism if I’ve ever heard one), which the author claims promote autocentric development with public funds. He then cites a few examples of redevelopment agencies pushing such plans in San Jose. If he [...]
By Stephen Smith, on January 1st, 2011
Lake Oswego, a suburb of Portland where development began over a hundred years ago, has learned the hard way about the strings that come with taking federal money:
In the dim light of recent news and numbers, you’ve probably forgotten that the Lake Oswego streetcar was, once upon a time, a project worth celebrating [...]
By Stephen Smith, on December 9th, 2010
I know I’ve kind of beaten this horse dead, but this environmentalism vs. density stuff just enrages me too much to relegate it to a link list. Here are some excerpts from an article about how the EPA’s proposed new rules for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay could impede dense, environmentally-friendly development:
For decades, [...]
By Stephen Smith, on December 4th, 2010
One of the sickest paradoxes in American law has got to be the arduous environmental review that’s applied to transit and dense building projects, but I didn’t think it was this bad. From an article about San Mateo County residents bitching about being asked to pitch in for the roads they use:
The earliest [...]
By Stephen Smith, on November 28th, 2010
This is probably my favorite link list yet…enjoy!
1. The WSJ claims that delinquent homeowners can expect to stay in their homes after making their last mortgage payment – that is, they can live rent-free – for at least 16 months. The longer it takes for foreclosures to happen, the longer it will take [...]
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