March 2008
37 posts
The Columbus Dispatch : Cities with streetcars... →
“A year ago, we were told the problems were in subprime, and what is becoming...”
– David Rosenberg, chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch - A Nervous Wall St. Seems Unsure What’s Next - New York Times
Strickland's work-force development shuffle aims... →
“Bigness, as [Rem] Koolhaas theorized in his book S,M,L,XL, required a giving up...”
– Star Cities - The world’s best-known architects are turning to planning. Joan Ockman asks: Is a new form of urbanism emerging?
Report: Area construction pipeline jumped in... →
“Calcutta is, frankly, obscene. I walked out of a tony espresso bar—its windows...”
– Robert D. Kaplan, “Oh! Kolkata!” The Atlantic Monthly, April 2008.
“The subaltern cannot speak.”
– Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Inflation Up at the Producer Level - New York... →
“I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe...”
– Barack Obama’s Speech on Race - New York Times
WBNS 10TV : TRANSCRIPT: Read Mayor Coleman's State... →
FriendFeed, Twitter →
If you’ve taken a keen interest in me, geek that I am, you can keep up with me through friendfeed, which aggregates all the little micro/tumble/standard blogging RSS traces I leave across the…
Mayor Michael B. Coleman cordially invites you to... →
“Everybody in the slum wants to work, and everybody wants to make themselves...”
– Michael Cronin, quoted in Heads Up: Poverty Tours - Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? - Travel - New York Times
“Americans are not as wealthy as they thought they were, and that’s going...”
– Edward Leamer, UCLA’s Anderson Forecast, quoted in Economists See US Avoiding Recession - New York Times
Ceterus Paribus →
If only all other things were held equal.
Many analysts believe speculative investing attracted by the weak dollar is the primary reason oil has risen so far so fast in recent months. Crude…
They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know. - New... →
The Columbus Dispatch : Strickland on board effort... →
Michael Hill - Don't Blame Subprimes -... →
“What’s happening in the market today is not the bursting of a five-year bubble but the bursting of a 40-year bubble and the failure of the mortgage loan system to meet the needs of the marketplace.”
I’d suggest looking back 74 years to the creation of the FHA.
Colleges Teach 'Urban Development 101' - WSJ.com →
“Universities, increasingly, are extending their reach to off-campus development in an effort to give their surrounding areas and town centers a vibrant and modern feel. In the process, they are becoming major drivers of economic development after concluding that their fortunes are directly tied to those of their cities.”
Facing Default, Some Walk Out on New Homes - New... →
Since the Depression, American government policy has encouraged homeownership as an absolute good. It protects people from increases in rent and allows them to build equity as they pay off their mortgages. And it creates stability in communities, because owners are invested in their neighbors.
But new types of loans like interest-only mortgages and cash-out refinance loans mean buyers do not pay...
