Entries tagged with Land Use
The 2010 Urban Mobility Report released today by the Texas Transportation Institute does nothing to correct the problems identified in an independent analysis of the report released last year by Joe Cortright for CEOs for Cities. It continues to present an exaggerated and incorrect picture of the extent and…
Nashville MPO Responds to Driven Apart
December 13, 2010
Driven Apart, the report released this fall by CEOs for Cities funded by The Rockefeller Foundation that identifies sprawl as the culprit behind more time spent in traffic, continues to get attention — this time in the Nashville Tennessean.
The sprawling nature of the Nashville area requires…
Spill, Baby, Spill
May 18, 2010
Last week on Urban Omnibus, Vishaan Chakrabarti penned an exceptional essay on the impact of unchecked materialism on the future of American leadership and prosperity.
With his timely, tongue-in-cheek title, “Spill, Baby, Spill,” Chakrabarti unflinchingly blames America's lack of self-discipline and introspection for its oil dependency, sprawl and…
Playfulness in Cities
April 5, 2009
At our recent Strategy Summit, we had a lively exchange between Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, and Tersesa Schwarz, who has done a brilliant job of reimagining Cleveland's vacant land as an asset for sustainability.
Promoting Growth in Downtown San Fran
March 2, 2009
A new report out from SPUR is urging more office development in downtown San Francisco. Quoting from the report...
Downtown San Francisco is the only employment node in the region where most people travel to work without bringing their own car. Downtown San Francisco is the node with…
Recommending Ryan Avant
July 29, 2008
If you haven't discovered Ryan Avant's blog, you should. Here's a recent gem:
"The two big challenges for fighting poverty are: 1) reducing, as much as possible, geographic segregation of socioeconomic groups, and 2) the tendency to choose affordability over proximity among the poor, which significantly affects expected income.…