Archive for March, 2009
Pierce / Dallas
First off, major props to Tory Gattis for what he had to say about toll roads yesterday: Road needs far outstrip demand in fast-growing Texas, we refuse to inflation index or increase the gas tax (which will soon barely cover maintenance on our existing network), and we refuse to convert historically free freeways to toll [...]
America’s Worst Intersections According to Forbes
I was just checking out this list of the worst traffic intersections in the United States, and I couldn’t help but noticed that none of them are in Houston.
Briefly
I-10 is a joke. I passed 3 speed traps today driving outbound on I-10 from Taylor St. to Campbell. That’s 10 miles. Meanwhile the inbound lanes were already moving at a snail’s pace at 7:30 in the morning. Congrats Houston! Way to spend 3 billion dollars! By the way, do you think we could learn [...]
Antanas Mockus and a Multi-Regulated Society
Today I wanted to start unpacking some of the sessions from the De Lange Conference with a look at the first talk by Antanas Mockus, the former mayor of Bogota Colombia. Mockus is an especially interesting figure. Throughout the 80s and early 90′s, Bogota was a mess, and of particular concern were violent crimes and [...]
De Lange Conferece: Day Three
Highlights again from a fine set of presentations, and we’ll dig into some of the meat of this in the upcoming days. We started the morning off with a really mind-blowing presentation by William Mitchell from the MIT Smart Cities Research Group. Mitchell highlighted some of the work of his group, including what they call [...]
De Lange Conference: Day Two
Another great day at the De Lange Conference. Here were some of the notable quotes and excerpts: Today 1 in 7 people are living in slums and shanties, and in 20 years it will be 1 in 3. This is the market for housing in the world, and the most important priority for architects, urban [...]
Pseudo-Live Blogging the De Lange Conference
Update from the morning session: Cameron Sinclair is a pretty cool dude. Here’s the unedited notes from the morning session, I’ll come through and clean these up later. Cameron Sinclair: Architecture for Humanity The group builds things in developing countries, places where there’s a real lack of resources and professional services. The group is not: [...]
De Lange Conference: Day One
Well that was fun! I just got back from day one of the De Lange Conference. This week I’ll be looking at the conference and the speakers, giving some recaps of what they had to say, and in many cases adding some additional background and commentary. Later in the week I’ll try and really dig [...]
Welcome to neoHOUSTON.com
Well, I told everyone there was going to be some news, and here it is! We’re taking things up a step, and now are going to be operating from our own domain. First off, let me take a minute to thank Dave, who has been instrumental in the move to a little more sophisticated technology. [...]