Urbanexus Update - Issue #1
These updates present selected articles, tweets, and images about evolving physical, social and economic conditions within and around metropolitan regions that shape opportunities--and create challenges--for equitable and sustainable real estate investment and development.
Articles
Interactive: The Fastest Growing Cities in the World (2000-2016) — www.visualcapitalist.com
Interactive map showing 500 cities with over 1M+ inhabitants, sorted by growth rate from 2000-2016.
Welcome to Zucktown. Where Everything Is Just Zucky. — www.nytimes.com
Can social media experts make a go of community development? We may find out soon. In Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook is building a real community and testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside them?
The Evolving Urban Form: Paris — www.newgeography.com Suburbanization is a big part of the story about the urban form of Paris, France.
San Francisco Is Suffering From The Excesses Of Its Own Liberalism — thefederalist.com
Here is a sobering report on how the public realm is (mis) managed in the City of San Francisco.
The world's first health metrics sciences department — newsroom.uw.edu The University of Washington is creating an innovative academic department designed to measure the to measure population health, its determinants, and the performance of health systems.
Detroit's economy is growing in spite of the fact that the city is losing population.
Why Outer Suburbs in the East and Midwest Have Stopped Booming — www.nytimes.com Many counties, including rich ones, are aging and experiencing more deaths than births, without growth through immigration or migration.
Can mass timber help California build its way out of the housing crisis? — archpaper.com
There is potential for cost savings for mid-rise housing construction.
Amazon is the most sought-after employer in the U.S. We went inside to find out why.
Insight on why people are attracted to this rapidly growing firm.
More than 500 people saved a historical bungalow and its coffee shop — www.seattletimes.com In West Seattle, patrons of a homey coffeehouse have forked over more than $77,000 — no strings attached — to save a historic bungalow from development. The money allowed the owners of C & P Coffee to buy the home and keep the business open.
Stephen Shore's "Uncommon Places" Today — archidose.blogspot.com
Some places change a great deal over the course of four decades and some not much at all.
A Baby Step toward Revamping Single-Family Zoning — www.sightline.org Seattle’s plan to allow more homes near transit and shops doesn’t go far enough.
Plan to dramatically increase development would transform some L.A. neighborhoods — www.latimes.com Senate Bill 827 could "upzone" huge stretches of Los Angeles near bus stops and rail lines. Backers see it as a bold effort to reduce gridlock and carbon emissions, while critics fear it would destroy the character of neighborhoods.
Tweets
YIMBY Action 🥑 on Twitter: "Tell us your #YIMBYmoment… " — twitter.com YIMBY (yes-in-my-backyard) moments from folks who want more housing in their neighborhoods, cities and regions https://t.co/GDB0rcDegJ