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Alex Taussig • Firehose #168: 🏙 Urban flight. 🏙
One approach that has been developed and is likely responsible for the turnaround of many downtown districts is the community economic development model of the business improvement district (BID), which is shown to reduce crime in business areas and improve real estate.6 The BID model relies on special assessments levied on commercial properties lo
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
strong income segregation by neighborhood. This is particularly interesting because these cities are currently among the fastest growing in the nation
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Back in 1991, the Sierra Club’s John Holtzclaw studied travel habits in twenty-eight California communities of widely varying residential density. He found, as expected, an inverse relationship between urbanity and driving miles. But, perhaps not expected, he also found his data points distributed around a pretty sharp curve, with most of the gains
... See moreJeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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One geographer found that early-stage start-ups tend to be in highly walkable census tracts, whereas more established firms tend to cluster in less walkable areas.
Adam Alter • Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
When a city doubles in size, every measure of economic activity increases by 15 per cent per person.