Archive for the 'economic strategy' Category
Family-friendly, Bill White, winning cities, NIMBYs, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis November 29th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesCatching up again on some smaller misc items:Joel Kotkin in the Wall Street Journal on the rise of family-friendly cities vs. “cool, hip” cities.”…an analysis of migration data by my colleagues at the Praxis Strategy Group shows that the strongest …
Houston becoming an “Emerging Global Portal”
Closed Published by Tory Gattis October 22nd, 2007 on Houston StrategiesMichael Boyd is an aviation expert and consultant who is frequently quoted in articles on the airline industry. He posted today on emerging trends from his recent Boyd Group Aviation Forecast Conference:International-generated traffic is now the #1 mo…
I actually got this idea a while back in April when Thomas Friedman wrote a long article in the NY Times Magazine on “The Power of Green” (also a good short video summary there), arguing that America could build a great export industry around green tec…
Evidence for Opportunity Urbanism
Closed Published by Tory Gattis October 8th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesDigging through some of my older stuff looking for some good blog material, I came across this Demographia analysis of Sydney vs. DFW. Their main point is that Sydney’s extremely tight land use restrictions drive up housing costs, which are three time…
Kotkin on infrastructure investments
Closed Published by Tory Gattis August 30th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesThe Wall Street Journal opinion page has been featuring Joel Kotkin more frequently lately, the most recent one being on infrastructure underinvestment in American cities, as politicians overfocus on “sexier” investments like stadiums and convention ce…
Why city growth and size matters
Closed Published by Tory Gattis August 20th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesHouston is lucky in that we still have a generally positive attitude towards growth, although I see that attitude weakening every year as the burdens mount on our transportation, health care, and education systems (among others). Many cities on the ea…
More on a SWSX/ETC for Houston
Closed Published by Tory Gattis August 13th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesI’m back from SoCal for my brother’s wedding, and I have a new appreciation for what people mean when they say “LA traffic.” It’s a whole ‘nother level well beyond anything you find in Houston. Traffic that *creeps* along at less than 10mph for miles…
Hou vs. NOLA, Google maps adds Hou street views, homebuyer prefs, CA vs. TX housing cost drivers, commuter rail, transit safety, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis August 8th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesI’m heading to Orange County, CA for my brother’s wedding until Monday, so no posts for a few days. In the meantime, here is a long post of misc smaller items with a lot of links to keep you busy for a while:Google maps has added parts of Houston to i…
Houston’s SXSW = a global Energy Technology Conference (ETC)
Closed Published by Tory Gattis August 2nd, 2007 on Houston StrategiesI was thinking last night about how cities carve out distinctive industry niches for themselves, like Silicon Valley and Austin in technology. It occurs to me that energy technology of all kinds is going to be a major world issue for some time to come,…
Battery tech, baby boom 2, rail vs. ridership (and stadium), energy trading, and Texas job growth
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesAn assortment of smaller items today:Stanford researchers claim they can get a 10x improvement in lithium ion batteries. If the improvement can be manufactured affordably and reliably, it would certainly be a great improvement for laptops and cell pho…