In my City Talk column today, I summarize some of the latest home sales data for the Savannah area. Single-family home sales were essentially flat compared to a year ago, but inventories are shrinking because of a decreased pace of…
“Pure Mountain Angel”:
I’ve been writing and reading a lot lately about urban design issues — especially streets.
Thanks to a Twitter post, I found Is Bad Urban Design Making Us Lonely? at The Atlantic Cities, which included a link to a lengthy and well-researched study of urban design and social connections in Australia: “Social Cities” by Jane-Frances Kelly for the Grattan Institute.
Romney wins among whites, in the South, in rural areas, and among those over 65, but trails — in some cases really badly — for other demographic groups and geographies.
Who next? Michael Jackson? Tupac Shakur has been dead for 15 years — shot to death at age 26 — but he still made a stir at the Coachella Music Festival yesterday. The hologram of Tupac joined Dr. Dre and…
I’ve already posted links, comments, and excerpts for Tom Vanderbilt’s 4-part series at Slate about the state of walking and pedestrianism in America. This morning he talked to NPR’s Morning Edition about these issues — and made a compelling case…
Here’s the latest from GasBuddy.com.
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We don’t have good data from the Great Depression, but the U.S. probably lost more than 15% of its civilian jobs from 1929 to about 1932. The jobs recovery was pretty quick from there, but then jobs were lost again…
New construction is typically a driver of economic recoveries, but the combination of tighter credit because of the financial crisis and the massive overhang of existing homes — we built too many plus saw many others become distressed — could not be countered by any conventional, or politically acceptable, policy moves.
“The white idiot writhes on his chair begging for cheeseburgers.” That’s just great.
Open the post to see part one from a few years ago.
I’ve already posted a few Savannah-centric comments about as well as links to Traffic author Tom Vanderbilt’s 4-part series in Slate about walking in America. My posts are here, here, and here. Why do Americans walk less than most other…
Tom Vanderbilt, in the 3rd part of his excellent 4-part series on pedestrianism and walking in America, focuses on Walk Score, “the company that tracks the “walkability†of locations around the world.”
