Introduction to New Urbanism…or just Urbanism: How it Works and Why It Matters
As you may have heard, Monte Anderson formerly owner of the Belmont Hotel and owner of Options Real Estate and I will be teaching a series of classes for the Dallas Institute on New Urbanism. Since...
View ArticleRise of The Open City
Envision a scenario where all city data and systems were open to be consumed. Restaurant inspection grades combined with data from Yelp so people can see restaurant reviews next to health information....
View Article2014 American Community Survey (Census) Data
If you’ve followed me for any time, you know that I keep vast databases of census data for all cities and metros in order to compare and contrast cities as well as individual cities over time. I tend...
View ArticleCharting Cities: Wealth/Inequality
The 2014 ACS is out and I’ve begun assembling the data into the master databases I keep on cities to compare contrast cities vs each other at a point in time as well as cities to themselves over time....
View ArticleDowntown Plano – National Award Winning Neighborhood
Plano has won a national award for best neighborhood. No, not the entire 70+ square miles of the entire municipality, as apparently sometimes gets confused for a neighborhood. Neighborhoods should be...
View ArticleCityMAP
Brandon Formby has an article up over at the News that in many ways is an introduction to and an announcement for CityMAP, which many people didn’t even know was going on. He provides all the details...
View ArticleDallas Institute, Class 2
The second of three classes, nominally on ‘New Urbanism’, as taught by Monte Anderson and myself will be at the Dallas Institute next Monday evening. We have structured the three classes as Past,...
View ArticleDallas Institute Class 1 Presentation
If you happened to miss my first lecture at the Dallas Institute for the Humanities and plan on attending the 2nd and/or 3rd lectures in October and November (or not!), I’ve embedded the slideshow...
View ArticleThe Little City by Monte Anderson et al
Last night, Monte Anderson and I gave the 2nd in a series of classes at the Dallas Institute. I’ll be posting the slide show of my presentation shortly, but first I wanted to share the video that...
View ArticleDallas Institute Class 2
Last night, Monte Anderson and I gave our second of three lectures on New Urbanism. In the slide show below I finally get around to talking about New Urbanism, but not until about 100 previous slides...
View ArticleAn Ode to Northwest Highway
Northwest Highway is one of the busiest thoroughfares in North Dallas, connecting and passing through major centers of employment and retail. However, it wasn’t always this way. In fact, the Northwest...
View Article“Our World is Getting Smaller”
In case you didn’t know, TxDOT is undergoing a study of all of the highways in and around downtown Dallas called CityMAP. The last public input meeting is tonight from 5 to 8 pm at the African...
View ArticleDowntown Stuck in Park
I had the good fortune of being invited to a meeting with Chris Leinberger who was stopping through town on his way to Mexico City. Leinberger keynoted CNU23 here in Dallas where he showed off his...
View ArticleForget #EndTheStreak; Go With #VisionZero
The problem with #EndTheStreak, like most non-reforms is that it aims too low and isn’t about altering policy. The hashtag to end the streak of at least one Texan being killed on Texan roads every...
View ArticleThe Best Satire Is Blissfully Ignorant Non-Satire
You might be surprised to hear me say it (read me write it), but LA has some of the smartest thinking and political leadership in the country right now regarding how they’re changing courses to build a...
View ArticleSponsored Content?
I really wasn’t planning to post today, but between an illness forcing me to stay at home, general restlessness, and this cheerleading piece in the DMN that even gets the fancy graphics treatment (the...
View ArticleCalifornia, Yes California, Leading the Way Out of Congestion
Probably because they have to. If you think we have congestion locally, I suggest you try to take a spin on the 10 from LA to Santa Monica sometime. I still have nightmares of the last time I did...
View ArticleOT: Boston Transportation Study
I’m able to get the latest American Community Survey data from 2014 down to a granular level for the first time so I’ve been playing around with it a bit. Since I made the graphics I figured I might...
View ArticleOT: Bay Area Commuting Pattern Study
For today’s lunch hour, I’m foregoing eating because I feel like expanding on the Boston commuting pattern study to take a similar lens to the Bay area. Bay Area aerial As with the Boston study, the...
View Article2014 Uptown/Downtown Population Change
I don’t need Christmas presents. All I ask for is new data. The US Census slid down my chimney with 2014 ACS data at the census block group level. Block groups are the smallest level that the census...
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