Summer 3Q09 Highlights
First, a quick note: I'll be traveling over the next week or so, and probably not blogging.It's time for the Summer 3Q09 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
August
July
And from Spring 2Q09
June
- Mitigating some issues from Houston Urbanism (last paragraph)
- Securing Houston's economic and world-city future
- Ike Dike (affordable hurricane protection for Houston)
- Why rail to the airport doesn't make sense
- Surface transportation innovations for Houston
- Gas cost vs. commuting and a realistic climate change solution
- The four Houstons
- Radically increasing IAH express bus ridership and revenue
- >>>>Texas and America's four great growth waves<<<<
March
- Texas on the brink? (or maybe not - immigration, opportunity, education, and rankings)
- How to make Houston and Texas the next Silicon Valley
- The Grand Parkway, stimulus-for-tolls, and the secret benefit of HOV->HOT conversions
- Ten principles for developing a great city
January
And don't forget the highlights from the first four 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).
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posted by Tory Gattis @ 8:33 PM
2 Comments:
Just two nitpicks about the Four Waves of Growth thread:
1. DC grew much later than the other cities in the Northeast. Until the New Deal, it was a small Southern city, and the Northeast proto-megalopolis ended in Baltimore. You should put DC's growth burst together with California - in both cases, the catalyst was public works and general government spending.
2. Large capital cities occur even without welfare states and big governments. South Korea is dominated by Seoul even though for most of its recent history it was run by people from a separate province, Gyeongsang, who steered economic development to their home towns (the largest of which is one sixths as big as Seoul). Japan has a smaller government than the US by spending metrics, though not by regulatory one; Tokyo still dominates it. Ireland, Iceland, and all Eastern European EU members except Poland are dominated by their capitals as well (ironically, Poland has the biggest government among the new members of the EU).
A blog post that's entirely a meta-agglomeration of other blog posts?
It's almost like a TV show.
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