Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurship’
Liner Buildings
One of the things that drives me crazy is when I’m walking around somewhere and I encounter a building with a giant blank wall set back some distance from the street. Wearing my capitalist hat, I see these kinds of “nothing” spaces and I just cringe at the lost income that it represents for the property owner. Wearing my urbanist hat, I see these kind of spaces and feel frustrated by the lost opportunity. Where there could be life, there is void. Here’s an idea for how to use these spaces to improve walkability and boost the economy at the same time.
Advancing Houston
Tory Gattis wrote this column yesterday, and I have to say I heartily agree with it. Here’s the bulk of it: Houston has a unique window of opportunity right now to secure its economic future as well as improve its world-city status. We’re currently the global capital of the oil and gas industry, one of [...]
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, [...]
Necessity is the mother of invention
There was an article on CNN today talking about entrepreneurs. The article begins by discussing the difficulty in quitting a project when it’s failing, but then goes on to discuss entrepreneurship in general, and it really hit home with me. In a recession that has forced employers to eliminate 2.6 million jobs in 2008, people [...]