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In most metropolitan areas, land values increase over time at least in proportion to population growth, and the higher the land value the more intensively land needs to be used to justify the cost of acquiring the property and redeveloping it.
Arthur C. Nelson • Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030 (Metropolitan Planning + Design)
Fixed features of space can be real or perceived, tangible or imagined.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
Cities whose economic-development strategy is a corporate-capture strategy are typically those whose economic development director and planning director don’t talk to each other. The smart cities, like Lowell, hire a director of planning and development, who is first charged with creating a city where people want to be. Rather than trying to land n
... See moreJeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
try to understand, still based on economic modeling, under what conditions agglomeration economies create differentiated land uses within the city.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
each land parcel on the landscape is characterized by its distance to market,
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation is
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Devon Zuegel • Part 3: The first walkable city in America in a century
Lord Foster’s focus on a seemingly intractable problem, slum dwelling, has taken him, his team, and the Norman Foster Foundation (a nonprofit institution) to different parts of the world to meet with experts in solar power and in infrastructure that doesn’t rely on soil (such as boats and airplanes).