Posts Tagged ‘access’
Access to Nature
Texas is often seen as quintessentially “Western.” The big open spaces and the images of cowboys, cattle and horses abound. Certainly many residents of Texas think of the state in that manner; even when they reside in one of the state’s enormous cities. One needs only to look at the recent Houston Live Stock and [...]
The Hyperlocal Web – EveryBlock.com
As a former architecture student turned software developer, I’m always looking for interesting web sites that bring together different fields of study and disparate sources of information, and I thought everyblock.com deserved a mention here at neoHOUSTON. EveryBlock is one of many recent web sites that fall under the umbrella of the Hyperlocal Web: EveryBlock [...]
The value of transit
Today I wanted to take a few minutes to talk through the effect that transit has on cities, and to illustrate one of the least appreciated aspects of the car-only infrastructure system. When land prices are high, there are only two ways to develop that land profitably: you can either charge extremely high rent/sale price, [...]