Archive for the 'growth' 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 moving on up list of Best Performing Cities
Closed Published by Tory Gattis October 4th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesThe Milken Institute recently released their 2007 list of Best Performing Cities, based mostly on job and salary growth, and Houston has moved on up from #129 to #32 out of 200 cities since 2005. 32 may not sound great, but that’s partly a reflection …
Houston and TX dominate Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies
Closed Published by Tory Gattis September 6th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesFortune recently released their 2007 list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies, and there’s a pretty stunning domination by Texas and Houston. We all know there’s an energy boom, but it’s stats like this that really drive it home.Texas has the most w…
Whose “quality of place”?, transportation history, and Houston mixed-use
Closed Published by Tory Gattis September 3rd, 2007 on Houston StrategiesThree miscellaneous pass-alongs today:A blog post comparing creative class rankings with domestic migration census data, finding an inverse relationship: a higher CC ranking tends to have lower, or reverse, migration. By far the most migration is to o…
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…
Our boom, Houston’s other mission control, a top-tier blog-savvy town, videos and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis July 19th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesTime again to cover the smaller miscellaneous items. Been coming across a lot of these lately.Houston tops the residential construction rankings (thanks to Hugh for the link)Why is Houston booming, you might ask? Well, the most recent issue of Fortun…
Thoughts on Brown and Crossley pieces
Closed Published by Tory Gattis July 2nd, 2007 on Houston StrategiesA couple different items I’d like to respond to today. The first, and largest, is Peter Brown’s op-ed yesterday on what he calls the urbanists vs. suburbanists debate, but what I’d call the government-planning-and-control vs. free-market land-use deba…
Joel Kotkin on Houston’s unique 21st century development pattern
Closed Published by Tory Gattis June 24th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesDouble posting today because I wanted to cover both congestion pricing and Joel’s op-ed in the Sunday Chronicle Outlook section today (sorry if you got a double email on congestion pricing - hit a snag with Blogger and had to repost it). I highly reco…
Opportunity Urbanism op-ed in the Chronicle
Closed Published by Tory Gattis June 10th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesMost of you probably caught my Opportunity Urbanism op-ed on the front of the Houston Chronicle Sunday Outlook section today, but even though it’s too long for a typical blog entry, I’d like to put a copy here for comments and permanent archival (Chron…