Houston Strategies

2008 Highlights

It's time for the Fall 4Q08 quarterly highlights post, which in this case sums up all the highlights from 2008. 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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December

• Doing Urban Corridors the right way, the Houston way
  

November

• Six Federal stimulus infrastructure projects for Houston (Chronicle op-ed)
• An image overhaul for Houston?
• Houston's great competitive advantage
  

October

• Houston Best Performing Large City - Milken Institute
  

From Summer 3Q08:

September

• Not much because of Hurricane Ike, other than minor posts on why Reason and Milwaukee like Houston, and the concept of Urban Romanticism
  

August

• What message is your city telling you?
• Puncturing Rail Myths
  

July

• Adapting Metro Solutions to the new realities
  
• Doing commuter rail right by 2012
  
• Harvard prof on Houston over NYC
• Why there aren't more New Urbanist developments
• My solution to the national housing crisis
  

From Spring 2Q08:

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 @ 9:48 PM