It’s no surprise that a lot of politicians and policymakers believe that America’s biggest infrastructure problem is insufficient taxpayer funding. But never have I seen it expressed so condescendingly as in a Washington Post article published yesterday in the PostLocal section, not labeled as an opinion piece, titled: “Experts struggle to express direness of infrastructure [...]
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December 7th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Human Ingenuity, Logistics & Transportation, Op/Ed, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed |
 printable viewIt’s no surprise that a lot of politicians and policymakers believe that America’s biggest infrastructure problem is insufficient taxpayer funding. But never have I seen it expressed so condescendingly as in a Washington Post article published yesterday in the PostLocal section, not labeled as an opinion piece, titled: “Experts struggle to express direness of infrastructure [...] December 7th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Human Ingenuity, Logistics & Transportation, Op/Ed, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed |
printable viewTwitter tells me that earlier tonight, “not-ruling-it-out” possible future mayoral contender (and local smart growth demigod) Tommy Wells held his inaugural book club meeting; the book discussed was Ed Glaeser’s Triumph of the City. DC’s chief planner Harriet Tregoning was also there, and while she’s been relatively good to the cause of density in DC, the [...] December 6th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, real estate, regulation | Category: Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Culture & Books, Economics, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel | Comments are closed |
printable viewNew York City’s subway lines – the engines that keep the city’s real estate market moving – are notoriously expensive to build. Tunneling projects in New York routinely clock in at five to ten times the cost of their Asian and European counterparts, putting the city’s measly 20-30% aboveground union construction premiums to shame. [...] November 29th, 2011 | Tags: energy, real estate, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Vehicles | Comments are closed |
printable viewI'On Village, South Carolina About three years ago Adam wrote about the the story of I’On Village, a New Urbanist development build about a decade ago five miles outside of Charleston, and the difficulties that Vince Graham faced trying to build it. For one, the project had to be scaled down in [...] November 15th, 2011 | Tags: politics, real estate, regulation | Category: Autos, Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Law, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design | Comments are closed |
printable viewDo New Yorkers need to cram into cubbyholes to bring prices down? At a recent conference organized by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council (covered by the New York Times, Crain’s, and City Limits), we heard a familiar refrain about New York City’s building stock: regulations have not kept up with the times, and [...] November 14th, 2011 | Tags: real estate, regulation | Category: Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Human Ingenuity, Law, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design | Comments are closed |
printable viewAn Eric Colbert special, everywhere and anywhere in DC I’m a little behind on posting this, but Lydia DePillis at Washington City Paper did a great profile a week or so ago of DC architect Eric Colbert, whose buildings’ unifying features seems to be blandness. There are a lot of people out there [...] November 9th, 2011 | Tags: politics, real estate, regulation | Category: Arts & Entertainment, Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Places & Spaces, Style & Design | Comments are closed |
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