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posted by Richard Layman @ 10:22 AM&Permanent Link
I am an urban/commercial district revitalization and transportation/mobility advocate and consultant. I was a principal in BicyclePASS, a bicycle facilities systems integration firm, based in Washington, DC. Now I'm in Salt Lake City for family reasons. Urban economic competitiveness is dependent on efficient transit and mixed use, compact places. Therefore, I end up writing a lot about mobility and urban design. I still own a house in DC, so I write a lot about Washington, DC issues. I try to write so that "universal lessons" are evident in the entries, regardless of the place.
Jane's (Jacobs) Walks, first weekend in May
Parking Day, 3rd Friday in September
Western Baltimore County Pedestrian and Bicycle Access Plan
Baltimore County Pedestrian and Bicycle Legislation
Cambridge, Maryland Commercial District Revitalization Framework Plan
Easy print Florida Market Directory
Florida Market Map & Directory
Urban Safeway Design Misses Mark op-ed, WBJ
Temper Walmart Glee with Planning op-ed, WBJ
ANC4B Large Tract Review Report on Walmart, 5/2011
ANC4B Large Tract Review Report on Walmart, Summary Recommendations
Bordercross Communications (Corinna Moebius)
This is None: Storytelling by Design
Capital City Market (w/Frozen Tropics)
Dr. Transit/League of Transit Doctors
4 Comments:
Offtopic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/world/europe/uk-austerity-poverty.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
When do you leave?
I really don't view what has happened in England as "austerity". Local funding sources have been cut. That isn't unknown.
What happened in Ireland, Greece and Portugal is austerity. 10x worse.
Again, we aren't precise on language here.
will read momentarily. Thanks.
Simon Wren-Lewis (mainly macro) is pretty adamant about the term austerity. (And Krugman.) It's more about classic Keynes. In a downturn the govt. is supposed to spend. Not cut. Not increase taxes. Etc.
The UK cut the national budget and viciously cut the local budgets. I don't know if before the Tories the local govts. were responsible for social care too. They are now.
Greece, Ireland, Iceland were more what Naomi Klein calls " shock doctrine." Again, in a downturn they needed govt. spending, instead they got catastrophic cuts. I'd call that devastation vs. austerity.
wrt your point about 10x and the need for more precision, I guess we need to think about this along the lines of the Richter Scale and logarythmic scales.
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am leaving tomorrow mid-afternoon. I haven't set up some appointments in London so I need to get those queries out before I leave, along with a couple job applications.
But I have my basic itinerary and lodging stuff. Have my train ticket to/from Liverpool and my London Oyster visitor pass!
Any recommendations on things I should try to see are welcome.
In the UK, benefits cuts too. We didn't do that, but are doing it now (work requirements, cutting subsidies for health care, eliminating CHIP program, at least for awhile, etc.).
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speaking of reading, you really should read that Buehler et al. article I cited the other day on the German (and Austria and ZUrich) transport associations. A really great article. Great list of references, including a 2009 publication by the German association of transport assns. I downloaded the latter but haven't read it yet.
https://www.apta.com/resources/mobility/Documents/UJST_A_1431821_O%20FINAL%20correction.pdf
I'm embarrassed that I never did a Google Scholar search before, although the article is pretty fresh, but not the various cites.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr/29/the-austerity-delusion
I’d agree with you and Krugman. Benefits cuts (like here) ins’t austerity, it is a policical choice.
In the US we don’t have a semblance of austerity; in the UK they used that as cover.
I do think Krugman is too Keynes and not enough on monetary issues. Given how Italy is the news today, lets remind us theat $6 trillion on Keynes inspired debt is going to be due at some point, and somebody is going to pay for it.
(Probably the Germans, as what it means it we need much higher inflation to pay for it)
Good luck on the trip. I made a small donation. Sometimes it takes 6 months before you realize the value of a trip like this. Save the Guardian article for the flight — very long.
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