Houston Strategies

Summer 3Q07 Highlights

Time for the quarterly highlights post. These posts have been chosen with a particular focus on significant ideas I'd like to see kept alive for discussion and action, and they're mainly targeted at new readers who want to get caught up with a quick overview of the Houston Strategies landscape. I also like to track what I think of as "reference posts" that sum up a particular topic or argument.

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September

• The potential for GPS at Metro
  

August

• What really preserves a neighborhood's character?
• Houston's SXSW = a global Energy Technology Conference (ETC) (original post, followup/more)
  

July

• Private toll roads: take the money (and concrete) and run?
  
• Reason on Why Mobility Matters to Personal Life (part 1, part 2)
  
• The many meanings Houston as an "Open City of Opportunity"
  

From Spring 2Q07:

June

• Joel Kotkin on Houston's unique 21st century development pattern
• Getting congestion pricing right on Westpark and elsewhere
• Opportunity Urbanism, 4 drivers op-ed, and response to critics
  

May

• How mixed-use development is done better in Houston than other cities
• Eurocity (urban) corridors
• Cheap fixes for traffic congestion
• Is urban form the root of politics?
  

April

• Economics of transit vs. cars
• Mayor expands historic preservation, air pollution initiatives (April Fools)
  

From Winter 1Q07:

March

• Houston vs. Dallas, Portland - Who builds more density?
• Architects vs. Economists (the planning vs. free market spectrum)
• Bruegmann on developers' attitudes towards land-use regulations
• Prospects for Texas commuter and inter-city rail
  

February

• Big plans for 288, but it could be better
• City size, and growth, matters
  

January

• Seven reasons why government planning fails
• Wrapping up Superstar Cities week: solutions
• The Wrong Way to Reform Property Taxes (arguments vs. appraisal caps)
  
• Planning: Panacea, Poison Pill, or just Purgatory?
  

And don't forget the highlights from the first two years. For what it's worth, I think the best ideas are found there, often in the first year (I had a lot "stored up" before I started blogging).

• 2006 Highlights here
• 2005 Highlights here

Labels: highlights

posted by Tory Gattis @ 5:42 PM