Posts Tagged ‘history’
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 [...]
Common Law, Civil Law, and the Supreme Court
The recent nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has again brought to a head the oft heard words of “judicial activism” and “judge made law.” ”Conservatives” often make the statement that judges should only “apply the law and not make it.” But this begs the question, given the legal history of this country, is this [...]
Rivercrest: Why the Urban Network is Essential
Yesterday the Chronicle posted an interesting article titled: Did street closing bypass fairness? Neighbors inherit wealthy Rivercrest’s traffic problem. The article considers the plight of the Briargrove Park subdivision, which has seen a significant increase in traffic since the adjacent Rivercrest subdivision succeeded in having their streets made into one-way (exit only) at Westhiemer. The [...]
Context-Sensitive Streets
Continuing in our discussion of some of the basic ideas behind good urbanism, today we’re going to look at Context-Sensitive Streets (or CSS). This idea came about after many years of study on the neighborhood impacts of very wide suburban thoroughfares, and the design requirements that mandated them. The definitive source of information on Context-Sensitive [...]
Random Facts about Houston
My grandmother sent me an article from the Chronicle last night that mentioned a series of stories from the 1920s and 1930s in Houston. I found some of the information quite interesting and thought they deserved a mention here.
Hobby Airport was purchased by the City of Houston in 1937 for just under $300,000. I found out from Wikipedia that it also used to be called Howard Hughes Airport.
Russian predicts imminent collapse of US
This is pretty amusing, but also pretty sad: There have been a series of news articles over the last few months highlighting the predictions of Igor Panarin. He came up with a theory about 10 years ago that sometime between 2010 and 2011 the US would collapse into four nations, that Alaska would be reclaimed [...]
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