Entries tagged with Sprawl
Subprime Lending, Not Smart Growth, Caused the Bust
June 21, 2011
The Wall Street Journal’s real estate blog recently featured a paper by National Center for Policy Analysis’s Wendell Cox implicating smart growth planning and policies for the housing boom and bust. Cox holds that metro areas with prescriptively regulated land use restrictions suffered the most from skyrocketing housing…
Urban Mobility Report: Not Even the Title Gets it Right
June 16, 2011
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…
Getting Around Must Be Smarter
December 17, 2010
Reacting to Monday's article in the Tennessean about Driven Apart, CEOs for Cities' critique of the Texas Transportation Institute's Urban Mobility Report, the Daily News Journal published "Getting around must be smarter," an editorial calling for Rutherford County to "get serious about mass transit solutions 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…
The Frustrations of Shovel Ready
March 23, 2009
NYT today documents stimulus money to states being used to encourage sprawl with shovel ready road projects. Although President Obama's Administration opposes sprawl (and he has so stated as recently as last month), "quite a few" states are using their stimulus money "to build new and wider roads that…
More on Pittsburgh
January 10, 2009
One more thought on Pittsburgh... The NYT noted that Pittsburgh had not experienced a housing boom, which has left the city in stronger shape as the housing market tanked. One thing the article did not note is that Pittsburgh is far more centralized and economically integrated than most major…
Curbing Sprawl and Emissions
August 30, 2008
California is nearing adoption of a law to encourage housing close to job sites, rail lines and bus stops to shorten the time people spend in their cars. And, surprise! The homebuilders are on board. The measure, which has passed the State Assembly and awaits Senate approval, would be the…
Chicago, January 20, 2011 - 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…