* A rough assumption here is that each 1,000 sq. ft. apartment would have one parking space, which works out to about 3:1 residential:parking floor space. The ratio seems to work for the Houston example, which promises its residents the ability to park in-building rather than having to ...
Fierce rainstorms and floods threaten flat, paved-over cities; Houston-esque heat and humidity will make summer unbearable in much of the Corn Belt and especially the Mississippi and Ohio valleys; and “polar vortex” cold snaps will get more frequent and severe during the winter as cold air ...
I visited Houston, Texas in December 2022, on my way back fromCorvette driving school report (Ron Fellows near Las Vegas). A friend invested heavily there in 2009 when everyone else was running away. Specifically, he invested inThe Woodlands, a town north of Houston in a Republican-dominated ...
The cities that have benefited from all three are located largely in the Sun Belt—Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Dallas, and Houston in Texas; Riverside and Sacramento in California; Orlando in Florida; and Phoenix, Arizona, among them—but also...
As an example, Hurricane Harvey remained stationary over Texas for multiple days guided by a persistent meander in the jetstream leading to extreme flooding in Houston in 2017. It has been suggested that global warming leads to a slow-down in the mid-latitudinal summer circulation which would ...
Moreover, Houston residents did not seem to care; one official observed that “urban renewal was not even in our lexicon.”76 Strong ideological scruples motivated opponents of federal urban renewal in Fort Worth, where the Citizens Committee for Protection of Property Rights led the crusade ...
cities diverge from West’s predictionsaccording to the degree to which they have done so. The worst examples of American sprawl such as Houston, Texas have enormous ecological footprints compared to the standard of living and level of economy activity they support; more forward-thinking cities ...
The worst examples of American sprawl such as Houston, Texas have enormous ecological footprints compared to the standard of living and level of economy activity they support; more forward-thinking cities such as Portland, Vancouver, Copenhagen and Freiberg are far more efficient (and Charles ...
* A rough assumption here is that each 1,000 sq. ft. apartment would have one parking space, which works out to about 3:1 residential:parking floor space. The ratio seems to work for the Houston example, which promises its residents the ability to park in-building rather than having to...
Reported research is as follows: Weinstein and Clower (1999) found that community retail properties in the DART corridor (Dallas and Denver) experienced a value jump of 29% compared to other areas of Dallas Texas. In a case study of Santa Clara County, California, Cervero and Duncan (2002)...