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| | marketurbanism.com
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| | [AI summary] The article discusses Houston's unique urban development model, emphasizing its lack of historic preservation constraints, ability to annex surrounding areas, and lower infrastructure costs. It highlights the city's market-based approach to urban issues, contrasting it with older cities like New York or Boston. While acknowledging Houston's progress, it notes the city still has significant walkability issues, particularly in areas like Montrose, Rice Village, and the Heights. The piece also touches on zoning regulations, minimum lot size requirements, and their impact on housing diversity. Overall, it presents Houston as a city with potential for growth and innovation but still facing challenges in creating walkable, vibrant neighborhoods.
| | www.cnu.org
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| | This is second in a series of articles on the advantages of building human-scale cities and towns.
| | humantransit.org
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| | Columbus, Ohio's metro transit agency, COTA, has now released a new network plan for public comment. As in the recently unveiled similar plan for Houston, I led the network design task on this project as part of a consulting team led by IBI Associates. Again, the core idea is to expand the Frequent Network [...]
| | coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov
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| Researchers and stakeholders use SAR data to monitor the ice conditions such as six different types of ice, ice thickness, and ice cover.