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Remembering Steve Jobs, Land Use Advocate

October 6, 2011 by Chuck Wolfe
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  Steve Jobs’ last public appearance was as a land use advocate, presenting plans for Apple’s circular new headquarters to the Cupertino City Council just four months ago tomorrow. “Pretty cool” and “like a spaceship has landed” made the news last June, because Jobs was talking like pundits expected, while framing the rollout of... [read more]

'Urban farming' is not always the right answer

May 20, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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  Urban farming is all the rage, and not without reason, as more and more city dwellers are taking an interest in growing some of their own food, or at least buying as locally as possible, and as we search for creative uses for city properties not occupied by buildings.  I’m on record as supporting ... [read more]

Some thoughts on high-speed rail - part 4: Land value creation

April 25, 2010 by David Levinson
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`The estimated functions show that HSR accessibility has at most a minor effect on house prices" in Taiwan. [Andersson et al., 2010] Examination of local land uses around international high-speed rail stations suggests that were it not for commuter traffic, the effects on land use will not necessarily be localized near the station,... [read more]

Sobering Fact: All America’s Households Could Fit in California

April 16, 2010 by Tyler Caine
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Sobering Fact #2 When it comes to American development over the past half century, suburban sprawl is the issue. Unlike the efficiency that comes with urban construction, suburban planning to date is an expansive practice that spreads habitation out across virgin, natural land to carve it up with fences, utilities and roads. It is easy... [read more]

Optical Spelunking

April 3, 2010 by Geoff Manaugh
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[Image: The CAVE at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, now called the CAVCaM]. I mentioned a week or two ago that I had been out to Reno, Nevada, visiting, among other things, the Desert Research Institute, where Nicola Twilley of Edible Geography, Mark Smout of Smout Allen, and I began a roadtrip down to Los Angeles, through San... [read more]

Lessons from the Sun Belt: replacing sprawl with smart growth requires sustained commitment

March 4, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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For smart urbanism to be more than a boutique product, it must become not an experiment but standard practice in jurisdictions across the county.  When Parris Glendening was governor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, for example, the state of Maryland had real leadership on progressive land use; it was just beginning to make... [read more]