Adding more freeway capacity at the Rose Quarter will thousands of tons to the region’s greenhouse gas emissions If you say you believe in science, and you take climate change seriously, you can’t support spending $800
Widening I-5 at the Rose Quarter will increase greenhouse gases Read Post »
Houston’s “Energy Corridor” gets a pedestrian makeover, but just one thing seems to be missing. Bollards and better landscaping can’t offset the increased danger from wider, faster slip lanes. Most “pedestrian” infrastructure projects are often
More performative pedestrian infrastructure Read Post »
What City Observatory this week Institutionalized housing discrimination. A recent study of housing discrimination in Detroit came to a seemingly surprising conclusion:Â Fair housing complaints were less likely to be filed in higher income, higher
The Week Observed, January 22, 2021 Read Post »
What City Observatory this week 1. The Urban Institute gets inclusion backwards. The Urban Institute has released an updated set of estimates that purport to measure which US cities are the most inclusive. The report is
The Week Observed, January 15, 2024 Read Post »
Hartford Connecticut considers a pioneering move to make parking pay its way A higher parking tax works much like a “lite” version of land value taxation (LVT) Surface parking lots are highly subsidized polluters As
Why parking should pay its way instead of getting a free ride Read Post »
The Urban Institute has released an updated set of estimates that purport to measure which US cities are the most inclusive. The report is conceptually flawed, and actually gets its conclusions backwards, classifying some of
The Urban Institute gets inclusion backwards, again Read Post »
