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Terrorism and cities, then and now

January 7, 2011 By Stephen Smith

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: density, New Urbanism, terrorism

Friday link list

January 7, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Expect 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin, China, congestion pricing, dc, density, london, nyc, parking, seattle, terrorism

Mohamed Atta as urban planner, and more from the Middle East

December 27, 2010 By Stephen Smith

The 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Middle East, preservation, terrorism

DC link list

December 24, 2010 By Stephen Smith

I 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.2. The feds, along … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: China, dc, Iran, terrorism, transit

Another week, another consolation link list

November 9, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Another 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 2010 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bay Area, Environment, India, terrorism, Wendell Cox

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