Archive for the 'world city' Category
The essence and future of TX vs. CA
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesI know there have been a lot of articles and references to Texas vs. California recently in this blog, but, well, there’s a new one with some genuinely new contributions to the argument (”America’s Future: California vs. Texas”, Trends magazine, hat ti…
Houston vs. Chicago, Seattle, Portland - plus stagnant stadiums, giving thanks, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSome smaller items for your weekend reading pleasure:The Wall Street Journal recently had an op-ed titled “What Oprah’s Departure Means for the Windy City,” which serves as a warning to Houston and other cities:”Chicago is a city of magnificent parks a…
Houston accolades, criticism, and a crisis
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesA whole ‘nother bunch of smaller items:Following up on the Center for Houston’s Future symposium I mentioned a couple weeks ago (but was unable to attend at the last minute), they released this report on the state of air quality, parks and trails, and …
Gov 2.0, crossroads Houston, HSR, TOD, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesA busy holiday season week with a business trip to Austin thrown in, so just a few small misc items to pass along: Fast Company on “How an Army of Techies Is Taking on City Hall: Still waiting for a full reboot in Washington, D.C., an army of citi…
Tops for global connections, shale gas, new map, regs vs. density, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSince it’s a short week where people usually don’t have a whole lot going on in the office, I thought it’d make sense to do a misc items post this week since people might have more time to follow the links. So here they are:
From the Houston airports newsletter: “On November 16, Houston will become the only city in the Western Hemisphere to offer non-stop flight service to every inhabited
A targeted tourism strategy for Houston
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesI recently got engaged on an interesting discussion thread on HAIF about making Houston more of a tourism magnet, an area where we are sadly lacking compared to other global cities of our stature. In that thread I reposted my July post on attracting national and international tourists to Houston, where I talked about converting the Astrodome and empty land nearby into the world’s largest
Securing Houston’s economic and world-city future
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesHouston has a unique window of opportunity right now to secure its economic future as well as improve its world-city status. We’re currently the global capital of the oil and gas industry, one of the most important industries in the world. The short …
Why the ‘Livable Cities’ rankings are wrong
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesJoel Kotkin has a great piece over at New Geography (originally at Forbes) describing what’s wrong with all the ‘livable’ and ‘best’ city rankings from places like The Economist, Mercer, and others. Highlights:For the most part, the top ranks are domi…
Houston a “World Capital of the Future”
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesJoel Kotkin has an article on the “World Capitals of the Future” (originally in Forbes), focused mainly on emerging countries, but with a nod to a handful in North America, including Houston (Forbes detail page).Of course, none of these cities’ wealth …
Joel Kotkin in Forbes on Houston as a model city
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesJoel Kotkin has a great piece in Forbes titled “Houston: Model City” (also reposted on New Geography), holding that our innovation, job growth, and immigration put us ahead of other cities like NYC and Boston. Originally I wanted to show key exce…