Archive for the 'rankings' Category
Metro stats, school choice, Rice #1, NYT Texas, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis November 5th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesI’ve let my list of smaller miscellaneous items get so long, I’ll have to break it into two posts this week. Here’s the first half:Christof does a good job analyzing H-GAC stats on Metro’s HOV system and the Main St. rail, which is “carrying more peop…
Texas Triangle a Top 10 Global Mega-Region
Closed Published by Tory Gattis October 29th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesCaught this Richard Florida blog post on the rise of global mega-regions - essentially continuous urban areas like the Boston-NYC-Philly-DC corridor. In that post he links to a recent paper he collaborated on identifying the top 40 mega-regions in the…
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 …
Dallas vs. Houston GDP confusion
Closed Published by Tory Gattis September 27th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesSo, after seeing the Chronicle article this morning ranking Houston #7 nationally in metro GDP (behind NYC, LA, Chicago, DC, DFW, and Philly - and SF would be ahead of us if San Jose and Silicon Valley weren’t carved off into it’s own metro), I was a b…
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…
Forbes flubs Houston commute costs + misc
Closed Published by Tory Gattis August 23rd, 2007 on Houston StrategiesSeveral people have passed along the recent Forbes article proclaiming Houston the most expensive city in the country for commuting. Forbes is usually on the ball, but for some reason they let the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership (STPP), a no…
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…
Hou #1 mfg city, public routes service, sprawl args, WSJ Menil, transit resistance, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis June 28th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesI let the list of small miscellaneous items get too long again before posting. Sorry, but here it goes:Very cool interactive downtown map. Turn on and off what you want to see on the left, then mouse-over to get info.Houston has been ranked as the #1…
Kotkin’s ‘Opportunity Urbanism’ unveiled
Closed Published by Tory Gattis June 6th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesThe Kotkin project I’ve been involved with for almost two years now finally got formally released to the public at a Greater Houston Partnership luncheon yesterday. The goal was to understand cities as engines of upward social and economic mobility, w…