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Infrastructure
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Land Use Prof Blog
An infrastructure dream …
Here's a challenge for the upcoming elections, in light of the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis and the steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan. Let's vote for…
China Law Blog
China’s Instant Cities
By Dan Harris
Excellent in-depth National Geographic feature story by Peter Hessler (of Oracle Bones fame), on the National Geographic site, entitled, China's Instant Cities [link no longer exists]. Subtitled, "How one supercharged…
Land Use Prof Blog
Pay as you ride for public transportation?
Public transportation has been funded with billions of dollars over the past 40 years, much of it from federal funds. (As a former Washington, D.C., Metrorail rider for more…
Land Use Prof Blog
New looks for NYC …
[“Downtown Week,” continued …] What land uses make a city distinctive, memorable, and pleasant? In addition to buildings, roads, and vegetation is its “street architecture.” New York City, that crazy…
Land Use Prof Blog
Rail or bus? More arguments for the urban bus …
[More on transportation during this busy travel week ...] The nation continues to spend billions of dollars on urban rail systems, which are touted as green solutions to congestion, pollution,…
Business and Commercial
Revenue shortfall & increased truck traffic may force more toll roads in Georgia
By Ken Shigley
I have written several times this year about proposals for toll lanes for trucks on metro Atlanta interstate highways. An article this week shows another reason why this may become…
Land Use Prof Blog
Returning to rebuild in New Orleans?
The $7 billion that Congress has agreed to pay for home rebuilding in Louisiana is finally starting to make its way to homeowners. According to a report released last…
Land Use Prof Blog
“Big plans” … on China’s Yangtze …
[Global Sunday] “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood …. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram…
Land Use Prof Blog
The amazing Dubai …
[Global Sunday] Can giant land use projects make a nation? Dubai certainly appears to think so; perhaps no other place in the world has spent more money and effort…
Land Use Prof Blog
Interstate highways — A happy 50th birthday?
Tomorrow, June 29, is the 50th anniversary of founding of the federal interstate highway system. The freeway web transformed how Americans moved, and thus how we constructed our communities,…