Houston Strategies

Spring 2Q08 Highlights

It's time again 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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June

• Pros and cons of the new commuter rail plan
• Historic preservation should be a neighborhood choice
  

May

• Houston #1 Best City to Live, Work, and Play - Kiplinger 2008
• A Map to Houston’s World-Class Future (part 1, part 2)
  

April

• The link between fertility and housing
  

And from Winter 1Q08:

March

• Time to go back to BRT, Metro?
• Academic study of land-use regs increasing housing prices
• America's next great world city (+ tourism proposal)
  

February

• My intro speech from the land-use regulation forum
• Making transit free
• A simple rule for high-rise development
• ULI verdict on Houston
• Finally, a book that truly understands Houston
  

January

• Houstonians for Responsible Growth and finding a compromise "third way" for Houston development between developers, planners, and neighborhoods
  

And don't forget the highlights from the first three 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).

• 2007 Highlights here
  
• 2006 Highlights here
• 2005 Highlights here

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posted by Tory Gattis @ 9:34 PM