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George Will Criticizes Transportation Secretary for Praising Portland
Apparently our New Urbanism is “metastasizing” to the rest of the country, according to Will.
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Land Use and Transportation Connect at Federal Level
I greatly enjoyed this Neil Peirce column over the weekend and am delighted to see this kind of cooperation between HUD and Transportation. By coincidence, Rep. John Oliver, the Congressman mentioned, represents the district in Massachusetts where I grew up.
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Transportation and Land Value
OK, slightly geeky, but still interesting… Topic: Transport, Land Use, and Value Abstract: This presentation considers co-evolutionary process between the development of land and transport networks. Using data from the rail and Underground in London and the streetcar system in the Twin Cities, the empirical relationship is established statistically under several different contexts, and hypotheses…
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Major Sports Facilities – Land Use and Transportation
In another thread here, and on blogs all over town, people were just itching to talk about the new Major League Soccer proposal, the future of baseball in Portland, the fate of Memorial Coliseum, a stadium for Lents, etc… Please consider this thread the place to talk about the transportation and land use impacts of…
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A Shout Out from the 20-minute Neighborhood
I bragged a bit last week about the resilience of my 20-minute neighborhood in the face icy weather. At the beginning of week two, it’s becoming increasing obvious to me that this is only possible because of the work of a lot of committed people, including: Our local transit providers and especially their drivers The…