Posts Tagged ‘opportunity’
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 [...]
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, [...]
West Gray Streetcar
Christof just finished a three part series on streetcars for Houston, which you can find here: part 1, part 2, part 3. It was a great read, and I highly recommend it. Kuffner then chimed in with his own iteration, which struck me as a great corridor, but really long for a streetcar. That would [...]
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 [...]