Streaming Veracity

(via ‘Smart parking’ comes to downtown Los Angeles |...

Wed, 30 May 2012 07:57:00 -0400

(via ‘Smart parking’ comes to downtown Los Angeles | Roadways content from American City and County)

(via Casey B. Mulligan: Do Tax Credits Encourage Work? -...

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:02:05 -0400

(via Casey B. Mulligan: Do Tax Credits Encourage Work? - NYTimes.com)

(via This Collapse In Automobile Usage Is Like Nothing The...

Wed, 09 May 2012 16:03:21 -0400

(via This Collapse In Automobile Usage Is Like Nothing The Economy Has Ever Seen Before - Business Insider)

While “soda” commands the Northeast and West Coast (green) and...

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:01:18 -0400

While “soda” commands the Northeast and West Coast (green) and “pop” is in between (black), “Coke” reigns in the south (turquoise). These small distinctions can often act as touchstones for larger cultural differences. (via The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture - Arts & Lifestyle - The Atlantic Cities)

(via Free exchange: Petrodollar profusion | The Economist)

Wed, 02 May 2012 07:16:47 -0400

(via Free exchange: Petrodollar profusion | The Economist)

Colorado Government Takes a Play from ‘Moneyball’

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:43:49 -0400

Colorado Government Takes a Play from ‘Moneyball’

How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (without Parking) | Laws That Shaped LA | Land of Sunshine | KCET

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:59:40 -0400

How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (without Parking) | Laws That Shaped LA | Land of Sunshine | KCET:

During an almost thirty-year period beginning in 1970, Downtown Los Angeles gained a grand total of 4,300 units in housing stock. Then, between 1999 and 2008, Downtown gained at least 7,300 housing units just from long-term vacant buildings. What accounts for that tremendous uptick? Many factors, of course; but at least in the policy realm, arguably none are nearly as significant as the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, or “ARO.”

(via Tulsa councilor fears downtown getting too many parking...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:00:26 -0400

(via Tulsa councilor fears downtown getting too many parking lots; wants zoning policy | Tulsa World)

Parking mandates stymy development in Cincinnati’s urban neighborhoods — UrbanCincy

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:00:06 -0400

Parking mandates stymy development in Cincinnati’s urban neighborhoods — UrbanCincy

"I’m using private capital to improve a public entity that stays public."

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:00:06 -0400

“I’m using private capital to improve a public entity that stays public.”

- Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Private Aid Will Help Chicago With $7 Billion Plan - NYTimes.com

"While the world appears to be getting only more complex over time, there are in actuality just four..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:00:05 -0400

“While the world appears to be getting only more complex over time, there are in actuality just four massive, full-certainty threats at play:
1. Deleveraging: the depression-scale event we’re experiencing, thanks to the burst credit bubble. It’s at least a 10-year process, and we’re not very far along.
2. Global economic inclusion: Roughly 3 billion people will enter the global middle class in the next 20 years. We don’t even have enough resources for the 2.5 billion already here, meaning commodity prices—and strategic behavior—have only begun to rise.
3. Ecosystem depletion: Whether it’s climate change or the destruction of natural capital, we’re rapidly depleting the systems that provide us air, water, and food, while floods, droughts, tornadoes, and hurricanes are getting more extreme.
4. Resilience: Finally, our systems, supply chains, and infrastructure are simply not resilient. Instead of compartmentalizing shocks and risk, our lean, just-in-time “value chains” are magnifying disruptive events and the systems themselves are vulnerable to breakdown, attack, and capture.”

- Resilient communities with smaller homes can rescue the economy. - Slate Magazine

(via Pricing Parking by Demand - Graphic - NYTimes.com)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:00:05 -0400

(via Pricing Parking by Demand - Graphic - NYTimes.com)

(via Why affordable housing is a myth, in one chart - The...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:00:06 -0400

(via Why affordable housing is a myth, in one chart - The Washington Post)

"Our school system was designed in the Nineteenth century to socialize immigrants and provide them..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:06 -0500

“Our school system was designed in the Nineteenth century to socialize immigrants and provide them with the skills they needed to work on production lines. It is badly broken – a giant creativity-squelching machine—and must be retooled from the bottom up, no more tinkering at the margins. Our schools should stoke their students’ passions, unleash their talents, and nurture their creative and entrepreneurial potential.”

- RICHARD FLORIDA: It’s Up To The Cities To Bring America Back

"Surveys have shown that controversies like Alaska’s infamous bridge to nowhere have left the public..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:00:06 -0500

“Surveys have shown that controversies like Alaska’s infamous bridge to nowhere have left the public so suspicious of transportation projects that most people resist appeals for more funding.”

- - The Washington Post

(via Grassroots Mapping: How You Can Create Aerial Cartography...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:31:12 -0500

(via Grassroots Mapping: How You Can Create Aerial Cartography for Under $100, and Use It to Do Good - Environment - GOOD)

(via Indonesian Economy Booms, Its Infrastructure Groans :...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:19:06 -0500

(via Indonesian Economy Booms, Its Infrastructure Groans : NPR)

(via Colombian city gets giant, outdoor escalator - Yahoo! News)

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:01:05 -0500

(via Colombian city gets giant, outdoor escalator - Yahoo! News)

(via Alexander Garvin Looks at Public Spaces in New York -...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:13:06 -0500

(via Alexander Garvin Looks at Public Spaces in New York - NYTimes.com)

(via The Value of Transportation Enhancements; Or, Are Walking...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:12:05 -0500

(via The Value of Transportation Enhancements; Or, Are Walking and Cycling Really Transportation? | Planetizen)