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Joe the Planner: April 2010
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Thursday, April 22, 2010. Sprawl and the r-word: The Sequel. Was picked-up by Buffalo Rising. Generally refers to development outside of, and often geographically separated from, the population of a central city, but still socially and economically dependent on it. Suburban development is typically (but not always) less dense, diverse, and self-sufficient than its urban counterpart. If you will. On the other hand, most post-WWII development in this area was (and continues to be) low-density, automobi...
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Joe the Planner: February 2009
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009. The white elephant in the room. I’m certainly not the first pundit to comment on the recent economic meltdown, and I sure won’t be the last. But there is a side to this crisis that almost no one is talking about, perhaps because it hits a little too close to home—literally. The two primary assumptions embedded in our national dialog seem to be that (1) like the dot-com bust of 2000, the problem is a fairly recent phenomenon caused by the latest round of irrational exuberance.
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Collected Newspaper Articles 1981-1984: November 2010
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Collected Newspaper Articles 1981-1984. By Bill Brown: You Should've Heard Just What I Seen: Collected Newspaper Articles 1981-1984 (Colossal Books, 2010) . New from Colossal Books. Bill Brown, You Should've Heard Just What I Seen: Collected Newspaper Articles 1981-1984. Thursday, November 25, 2010. Interview with Bill Brown. Diet Soap Podcast #84, hosted by Doug Lain, posted 25 November 2010. Monday, November 22, 2010. Barnes and Noble says "No". Labels: symptoms/causes of the decline of the bookstore.
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Joe the Planner: March 2010
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Sunday, March 07, 2010. Sprawl and the r-word, a Buffalo-Niagara case study. A short prologue: I apologize that I had to take an extended hiatus—some personal matters intruded. Although I did say from the beginning of this blog that I'd emphasize quality over quantity, this is certainly not what I had in mind! I'm not sure how triumphant my return will be, but hopefully for those that read this, the wait will be worth it. Here in the Buffalo-Niagara region, only one other word is as divisive: regionalism.
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Joe the Planner: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010. An open letter to the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation. Buffalo’s Inner Harbor project suffers from a failure of strategy, and therefore a failure of leadership. My intent, therefore, is to write to you today not to lecture as an expert (for I do not claim to know all of the answers) but yet to make a sincere and ultimately convincing argument for a shift of strategy. In short, any development such the Inner Harbor should serve several fundamental goals:. Certainly, w...
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Joe the Planner: January 2009
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Monday, January 26, 2009. Putting parking in its proper place. In The Buffalo News, citing a study of downtown parking, offers some interesting blog fodder. The Desman Associates study asserts that the parking situation in Buffalo is a mess, and requires better management. To the uninitiated, this may sound reasonable, except for one thing. Downtown can never. So, if it is evident that an urban environment can never offer as good a "suburban product" as the suburbs can, then why do we continue to play t...
