Archive for the 'mixed-use' Category
New Urbanism comes to Galveston
Closed Published by Tory Gattis September 20th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesTonight I want to pass-along a Wall Street Journal article on the wave of new urbanist projects coming to the Gulf Coast, especially Galveston (7-day nonsubscriber link, permalink).Beachtown, as Mr. Sherazi’s project is called, is part of a wave of New…
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…
What can Houston learn from LA’s transit-oriented development failure? (+Tory rides transit!)
Closed Published by Tory Gattis July 5th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesTom managed to beat me to the LA Times front page story on the utter failure of dense transit-oriented development (TOD) there to get people out of their cars.”Among the few academic studies of the subject, one that looked at buildings in the Los Angel…
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…
Urban Corridors and learning from Dallas’ transit mistake
Closed Published by Tory Gattis June 22nd, 2007 on Houston StrategiesWell, I’m finally back from a very successful conference for OpenTeams. Today’s super busy with conference followups, so I’m just going to pass this blurb from Planetizen along on the importance of the Urban Corridors initiative in Houston to get the …
WSJ on the surge of urban mixed-use projects in Houston
Closed Published by Tory Gattis May 31st, 2007 on Houston StrategiesYesterday the Wall Street Journal had a fascinating piece (7-day nonsubscriber link) on the explosion of urban mixed-use projects coming to Houston. Some excerpts:In Sprawling Houston, Urban Style Gains TractionSlate of Mixed-Use Projects Shows City’s…
Urban Corridors preliminary public findings (and a rebranding proposal)
Closed Published by Tory Gattis May 23rd, 2007 on Houston StrategiesThe Urban Corridors Planning project had a meeting tonight at the GRB to present the preliminary findings from their multiple corridor workshops (coverage of previous meetings here and here). They had an interesting PowerPoint presentation (which shou…
Randal O’Toole of the Cato Institute and the Preserving the American Dream Coalition visited Houston last week from Oregon and spoke to a substantial crowd at a Houston Property Rights Association luncheon. He gave a compelling slideshow on overreachi…
So I attended the City of Houston Planning Department’s event on the urban corridors initiative on Saturday at the GRB. I’d say about 100 or so people attended. The goal is to improve our development regulations around LRT/BRT transit stops to get th…
OK, I’ve finally got some time to pass along some of my notes and thoughts on the Tuesday night land-use forum. I already covered my introduction speech in the previous post. Unfortunately, the Powerpoint presentations do not seem to be posted yet, b…