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Showing posts with label sustainability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sustainability. Show all posts
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Stop romanticizing the country

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Recently on Twitter I attacked the practice of transferring resources from city dwellers to country dwellers. One of my followers tried to...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Windows on the Van Wyck

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A few weeks ago I went for a walk in Briarwood and Kew Gardens Hills. I got off the train at Jamaica-Van Wyck, the first time I’d ever used...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Coming downstairs, bump, bump, bump

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Last year, a number of people noted that recently there had been a significant drop in vehicle miles traveled across the country. At a mini...
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Sunday, November 22, 2015

I am Monoculture, Destroyer of Worlds

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There's an idea going around that "gentrification" imposes a monoculture on the neighborhoods it touches. In a whirlwind of de...
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Monday, July 13, 2015

Do New York's "manufacturing zones" promote driving?

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I read on YIMBY that some people who live or work in the Jerome Avenue corridor in the Bronx are concerned that rezoning the area to allow ...
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Saturday, May 2, 2015

The long game in transit advocacy

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While I generally appreciate other transit activists, I’ve criticized plenty of them in the past. Recently I’ve figured out what it is that...
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Friday, September 12, 2014

Did you bring enough housing for everybody?

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When I was a kid, one of the things the teachers told us was that if you bring snacks or candy, you have to bring enough for everyone. If y...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Five migrations in gentrification

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In a recent post I noted that the demand driving up rents and prices ("gentrification") in big cities like New York, San Francisc...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

Unpacking gentrification

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Transit advocates, pedestrian advocates, urbanists and in general all the people who are trying to improve the quality of life in cities nee...
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Friday, February 28, 2014

Strong towns don't have pension problems

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Joe Nocera and Rana Foroohar were talking about municipal pension woes this morning. Or at least that's what Charlie Herman told them ...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Will "Willets West" relieve Flushing Meadows's parking curse?

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One of the least pleasant things about Flushing Meadows is the sheer amount of parking, as I've helpfully highlighted for you on the Goo...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

What is the best use for the Flushing River valley?

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I've lost count of all the proposals to build things in the Queens Valley. Here's a map from the Wall Street Journal: In additio...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

We don't want a Frackin' Zee Bridge

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Environmental advocates are doing a great job educating people on how horrible hydraulic fracturing is - in particular, it means hundreds mo...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Greenfield toll, HOV and bus lanes are no improvement

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The news is that the toll roads in Orange County, California are not bringing in as much money as planned. Similarly with Maryland's I...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Real Rockaway train service

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As I've written before , the Rockaway Peninsula is one of the least sustainable places in the New York area. This sand bar might be oka...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

The Cap'n's Bookshelf: Two Coots in a Canoe and Becoming Odyssa

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One of my recreational pleasures is reading what I call self-propelled travel memoirs. I can't stand travelogues that are full of passa...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

A grand bargain for walkable streets

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As I wrote before, after the failure of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing campaign in 2008, advocates realized that the plan had fail...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

What Not to Rebuild

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I'm glad to see that some people have broached the topic of sustainability in the areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and in particular...
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