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Exploring the World’s “Best” City
by James A. Bacon Last year Price Waterhouse Cooper crowned London as the “best” city in the world based upon a range of factors encompassing technology, innovation, transportation, tourism, livability, corporate clout and sustainability, beating out such great metropolises as New York, … Continue reading
No Wegmans for Tysons… Too Bad for Wegmans
Can Tysons have its cake and eat it, too? Perhaps not, at least if the cake is baked in a Wegmans Food Market bakery. Discussions to bring the Rochester, N.Y.-based grocery chain to a transit-oriented development around the McLean Metro station … Continue reading
Buffalo, N.Y. — More First Impressions
by James A. Bacon Let me say up front that any comments you read in this post about Buffalo, N.Y., are totally superficial and devoid of authority. They are based upon a single stroll through downtown last night without benefit … Continue reading
The Electoral Implications of Smart Growth
by James A. Bacon Marc Tracy conducts an interesting thought experiment in the New Republic: Would increasing the height restrictions on Washington, D.C.’s buildings turn Virginia back into a red state? His logic runs like this: The District of Columbia … Continue reading
The Walkability Premium
The scholars over at New Geography just won’t give up trying to make the case that most Americans prefer to live in single-family detached houses in the suburbs. Citing data from the 2010 American Community Survey, Wendell Cox wrote that … Continue reading
Posted in Land use & Development, Transportation
Tagged James A. Bacon, smart growth, Walkability
Mayor Jones’ Ambitious Plan to Bust up Poverty
by James A. Bacon The City of Richmond is embarking upon the boldest experiment in a generation to tackle entrenched, multi-generational poverty in the Richmond region. With the hoped-for assistance of $30 million in Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds, … Continue reading
The Evil These Proffers Do
by James A. Bacon A few days ago I published a post about the effort of a Chesterfield County business group to rid the county of proffers. It was a bad idea, I suggested. As long as government is responsible … Continue reading
Holding the Line in Henrico
by James A. Bacon Sidney Gunst has never been reluctant to express his ardent views on the failings of government and has never been shy about chastising public officials, even to their face. But the former real estate developer has … Continue reading
Out: Sustainability. In: Resilience.
by James A. Bacon If you want to move green initiatives forward in the Richmond region, it’s best not to invoke “sustainability,” a word that quickly gets tangled in the controversy over global warming and inflames the anti-Agenda 21 element … Continue reading
Smart Growth for Conservatives
Smart growth is too important to leave to liberals. Conservatives must articulate their own vision for creating prosperous, livable and fiscally sustainable communities. Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Land use & Development, Planning, Property rights, Transportation
Tagged James A. Bacon
Americans Need to Drive Less, Walk More
by James A. Bacon WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.–Something is very wrong with America’s health, Dr. Richard Jackson, professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California-Los Angeles, told the Congress for the New Urbanism today. Rates of depression, obesity and diabetes … Continue reading
READ IT NOW — THREE PART ANALYSIS
David Owen’s book Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability is a very important book. Owen’s book kicks open the portals to information and understandings that citizens must embrace if they are … Continue reading
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