Smart Growth and Housing Affordability
&helli... Imagine that a household must choose between a suburban house with a $12,000 annual mortgage
Yearly Archives: 2009
Forest Park Southeast footbridge gets lit
One more reason the new footbridge is better than the old footbridge: lights! Additional railing and lights were installed this
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Free Metro: Make Mass Transit Free For Everyone
What’s the purpose of a mass transit system? Reduce road congestion. Increase air quality. Increase mobility for individuals. Would free…
Takeaway: The Image of the City
How do we imagine St. Louis? What landmarks would you include? Which places come to mind as you traverse this
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When Good Neighbors Do Bad Things
I wanted to highlight another demolition in the city’s Central West End. This one is especially notable as it comes
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New Town St. Charles: Your future is here (it’s ugly)
{an aerial photo of New Town St. Charles}
For all the hype, New Urbanism has largely failed to live up
… What would you give to have St. Louis produce this?
Yes, it’s a 25-year transit and development vision for the entire Denver metro area. Why can’t St. Louis City, FOCUS
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Forest Park Southeast welcomes revised Drury Hotel plan, groundbreakin...
The plan to build a Drury Hotel in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood took an unexpected leap forward yesterday. At
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No hope for St. Louis regional planning?
While local municipal governments continue to wield their zoning and taxing powers and states are flush with stimulus cash, metropolitan
… Genius: Brookings Institution calls for integrated transportation and ...
It seems logical enough and should have been practice all along, but it’s good to see intelligent advocacy, especially at
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Commits Heinous Act of Pseudo-Journalism
So the Post-Dispatch apparently wanted to jump in on the “housing markets crash” bandwagon and figured they might as well
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The Least Regressive Way to Fund Highways
It’s past time that we should implement congestion pricing for our highways. Of course some like to point to the