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I don’t want to give anyone the impression that I (or Robert Fogelson) thinks that the threat of nuclear war in the 1950s was anything but a minor footnote in the history of American decentralization, but this bit from Fogelson’s Downtown (I finally finished! – review forthcoming) caught my eye: The belief that [...] January 7th, 2011 | Tags: density, New Urbanism, terrorism | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments |
 printable viewExpect a lot more of these… 1. Beijing tries to relieve congestion by…building a quarter-million parking new spaces and 125 miles of new downtown streets?! But don’t worry – bike sharing! 2. Seattle inches closer to a Shoupian on-street parking policy, and Austin ponders charging for on-street parking after dark and on Saturdays. [...] January 7th, 2011 | Tags: Austin, China, congestion pricing, dc, density, london, nyc, parking, seattle, terrorism | Category: Uncategorized | One comment |
printable viewThe NYT has an interesting article on urban planning developments in Aleppo, Syria (the largest city in the Levant – bigger than Beirut, Tel Aviv, Damascus, and Amman!), which includes this section about the history of planning in the Middle East, with a development-as-preservation lesson at the end: The role of postwar urban [...] December 27th, 2010 | Tags: Middle East, preservation, terrorism | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments |
printable viewI didn’t mean for these all (except the last one) to be about DC, but it looks like it turned out that way… 1. Matt Yglesias on lot occupancy rules in DC. I have a feeling, though, that these are more or less irrelevant in the face of other, stricter limits on density. [...] December 24th, 2010 | Tags: China, dc, Iran, terrorism, transit | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments |
printable viewAnother week without posts (from me, at least), another giant consolation link list! I’ve got a lot of them piling up and probably won’t be back to regular posting for a few more days, so I’ll try to spread them out over a few posts. 1. Wendell Cox’s Demographia came out with its [...] November 9th, 2010 | Tags: Bay Area, Environment, India, terrorism, Wendell Cox | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
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