didn't want to lose these links, since i don't have time to do the survey right now ( Read more... )

Thinking about the housing industry in the US and how Section 8 has a bad rap, how we handle low-income housing and etc, it often makes me very upset ( Read more... )

Raise your hand if you've ever played a game (computer game, board game, RPG, whatever) where you get to set the qualities of your character/tool/system on a sliding scale. zB: I think it's the Sims game where, at start-up, you get to pick the look of your character and then you get to pick their personality, by starting with a set number of ( Read more... )

as a citizen-urbanist and professional land planner, this made me want to break something the first time i read it.

( seriously. i wanted to punch these assholes in the face. )

check this out:

http://www.walkscore.com/TX/Houston

( random political thought, ignore at will. )

Vatti sent me ( this email. )

Jim got me hooked on Cracked articles throughout all of Sunday, after reading ( this. )

"For every doctor working at [the medical center] there are three people making less than $50,000 a year who come from 140 countries and speak 100 languages. Where are they going to live? How are they going to get to work?"
-Rollin Stanley, AICP, in the article "The Upsizing of White Flint" by Andrew Ratner in this month's Planning magazine.