Archive for the 'new urbanism' Category
Doing Urban Corridors the right way, the Houston way
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesHad a conversation this week about the Urban Corridors initiative moving forward at the Houston Planning Commission, which involves encouraging dense development near Metro rail stops. There are debates about the right standards, but the real issue is…
Rail, bikes, IAH, Texas, infrastructure, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSorry for the late post this week - busy holidays, you know. Got some smaller misc items to pass along:Galveston rail moves forward. One of the lines I agree with (also here), and the $400m price is almost reasonable given the length and potential ri…
My TEDx Houston talk, mostly about Houston
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSorry for the post delay this week - got back midweek from California and ran right into a giant pile of work. Back in June I had the opportunity to speak at TEDx Houston on the UH campus. It was a fantastic (and yet nerve-wracking) experience I really enjoyed. Well, the professionally edited video of my talk is finally available: “What is Social Systems Architecture and why does it matter?”
290 rail, IAH A380, city GDP, H-town Hackerspace, K12’s future, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesOK, the smaller miscellaneous items just keep stacking up:
Check out TX/RX Labs, Houston’s Hackerspace. I just think it’s awesome that Houston has something like this. Very cool and expanding fast.
Peter Wang writes about a nightmare traffic experience at CityCentre for a holiday party, noting that New Urbanist/”Livable Center” developments in Houston will still need to accommodate large
I’m staying at the Chautauqua Institution lakefront resort in western NY state this week, and thought I’d pass on some personal observations about living in a new urbanist community. Well, to be technical, it’s old urbanism - it started in 1874 - but …
Harvard prof on Houston (again) and transport energy
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesI’m back in town, but I have a major project due Friday, so I’ll just be passing along some smaller misc items split across this post and another later in the week:An interesting graph and discussion of energy use by different modes of transport, inclu…
The Rise of Urban Romanticism
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesQuite a while back, someone sent me a link to an interesting white paper from New Zealand’s Center for Resource Management Studies titled “The Rise of Urban Romanticism (or The New Road to Serfdom)”. I finally got a chance to read it, and I think it h…
Lessons for Houston from the global urban revolution
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThanks to a generous invitation from the World Affairs Council of Houston, I was able to attend a recent talk by Jeb Brugmann, author of “Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities are Changing the World”, on “Cities of the Future: Ideas for Houston f…