The best posts of the first 1,000
Apologies for the long break between posts. Not only has work and life been insanely busy, but I really wanted to do something special for my 1,000th blog post after almost 9 years(!). What I finally decided to do was extend and update my five-year anniversary post to include what I consider the very best posts of the first 1,000. If you're curious, you can find the inaugural post here, and my very first "strategy" post here: a proposed elite UH - Institute of Technology campus (which I still think is a good idea). And now here we are 1,000 posts later with so much content I can't even remember most of it, and count on Google to help me find it. Most of you know I do regular quarterly and annual highlights posts, and I decided to cull those down to the very most important posts of the last nine years - roughly the top 5% - the ones that I think really form the foundation of the blog's reputation. As you skim this list, I hope you find some of interest that you missed, forgot, or may have been posted before you discovered Houston Strategies. Enjoy. As always, thanks for your readership.-Tory
2013
- Options to Save the Astrodome
- The Future of Transit
- An alternate view of sprawl
- Seizing the Astrodome opportunity to establish Houston's new global identity
- Attracting more educated talent to Houston
- A vision for Metro's new CEO (Chronicle op-ed)
- A new brand for Houston: Houspitality
- Does Houston have the highest standard of living in the world?
- Houston's Walled Garden
- 7th anniversary post: The Ultimate Houston Strategy
- My TEDx Houston talk, mostly about Houston (a summary of some of my better ideas from this blog)
- A targeted tourism strategy for Houston
- The real answer to Houston's traffic congestion
2009
- Securing Houston's economic and world-city future, including increasing local venture capital
- An agenda for Mayor Parker (links to many key posts)
- Why the feds should stay out of high-speed rail (and most transportation)
- Texas and America's four great growth waves
- A Pragmatic Approach to Houston’s Future (part 1, part 2)
2007
- The many meanings Houston as an "Open City of Opportunity"
- Opportunity Urbanism, 4 drivers op-ed, and response to critics
- Architects vs. Economists (the planning vs. free market spectrum)
- Planning: Panacea, Poison Pill, or just Purgatory?
- Houston's identity: Global Village, American Dream, Texas Spirit (lead-up posts: strategy and previous branding attempts, why brand a city?)
- Transportation Lessons from Houston: Part 1, Part 2
- Applying Jane Jacobs' 4 tenets of vibrant neighborhoods to car-based cities (mobility/draw-zones for vibrancy)
- Density, Vibrancy, and Opportunity Zones
- Unity vs. fragmentation in metro areas and a related post, The importance of keeping jobs in the core
- A hypothesis on the deeper psychology of rail
- Commuter rail is the wrong ride (Chronicle op-ed)
- Why does Houston have such a great restaurant scene?
- Keys to unlock our gridlock (includes a link to the op-ed and the 3-part series)
- Realistically repurposing the Astrodome
- Relieving the north-south traffic bottleneck
posted by Tory Gattis @ 3:50 PM
3 Comments:
Congrats on reaching your 1000th post. You have provided a steady stream of interesting and thought-provoking information over the years. Thanks for all the effort you've put into it.
It surely takes a lot of dedication to keep a blog active, and as long as you can do it, I'm sure it will be appreciated.
Thanks!! It's feedback like that that keeps me going :-)
Keep going. I don't agree with 60% of what you say, but it's important that the conversation be had. It helps the city in silent, unseen ways.
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