Houston Strategies

2009 Highlights

It's time for the Fall 4Q09 quarterly highlights post, which also sums up all of 2009 (if you've been outside recently, then you clearly understand that we are now officially in the 'Holy Crap It's A Cold Winter!' quarter). 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

• If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch...
• An agenda for Mayor Parker and Why Mayor Parker needs to audit Metro's plans
  

November

• The essence and future of TX vs. CA
  

October

• Report from the HRG Smart Growth Conference
  

And from Summer 3Q09:

September

• Why the feds should stay out of high-speed rail (and most transportation)
  

August

• Is a 'SmartCode' the answer to Ashby?
  
• Houston's intangible identity
  

July

• The Economist special report on Texas and TX vs. CA
• Transform NASA into the "Google of Government"

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
  

May

• Surface transportation innovations for Houston
• Gas cost vs. commuting and a realistic climate change solution
  

April

• The four Houstons
• Radically increasing IAH express bus ridership and revenue
  
• >>>>Texas and America's four great growth waves<<<<
  

Winter 1Q09:

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
  

February

• Houston vs. how Americans want to live
• Comprehensively addressing graffiti
  

January

• A Pragmatic Approach to Houston’s Future (part 1, part 2)
• Keep Houston Houston
  

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).

• 2008 Highlights here
  
• 2007 Highlights here
  
• 2006 Highlights here
• 2005 Highlights here

Labels: highlights

posted by Tory Gattis @ 5:39 PM