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urban development
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Land Use Prof Blog
The past and future in New York …
Before I get to a more serious land use comment, please indulge a little architectural criticism from a complete amateur, just back from New York. As…
inversecondemnation.com
NY Times on Columbia U’s Expansion Plans
The NY Times posts a story, "Despite Earlier Defiance, Holdouts in Columbia's Expansion Zone Are Down to 3," about Columbia University's move into the area north of W. 125th Street. …
Land Use Prof Blog
Fewer Stonewalls, and other losses of the city …
If you wanted to figure out whether a neighborhood was safely hip back in the 1990s, you might have asked whether it held a Starbucks. And if you wanted…
The Right Coast
Downtown San Diego Tom Smith
It's all true. San Diego does seem to be developing a certain urban vibe, and that's good. LWJ and I spent a night a few months back here, and it…
The CPA Desk
Houston: A World City
By Greg Price
In conjunction with the Greater Houston Partnership Joel Kotkin recently published Opportunity Urbanism: An Emerging Paradigm for the 21st Century . Using Houston as a model, Kotkin explores “the fundamental economic…
Real Estate, Land Use & Environmental Law Blog
Test for Preparation of Supplemental or Subsequent EIR is Significance of Impacts from Project Modifications, Not the Modifications
By William M. Fleishhacker In Mani Brothers Real Estate Group v. City of Los Angeles, the Second District Court of Appeal of California addressed the issue of whether the City…
Land Use Prof Blog
Old suburbs are now like old cities …
The hoary stereotype of a “suburb” as a uniform, conformist area of mostly white and affluent homeowners needs to be put to rest. In a nation in which most…
Land Use Prof Blog
When parking becomes economic policy …
[Hometown Week, continued …] How much (and when) should the public pay for parking? In my old hometown, Silver Spring, Maryland, the local county government has just decided to…
RedevelopNJ
Newark Real Estate Conference Keynote Speaker is Mayor Cory Booker
By Ted Zangari
By Susan Piperato of New Jersey & Company magazine ScheinMedia and New Jersey & Company magazine announces that Newark Mayor Cory Booker will be the keynote speaker at The Newark…
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…