MetaFilter posts tagged with urban and suburbs

The High Cost of Free Parking

parudox — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:36:56 -0800

"Eighty-seven percent of all trips are made by personal vehicle and 99 percent of those trips arrive at a free parking space." But that free parking comes at a high cost according to Donald Shoup's research. He advocates for charging the right price for on-street parking and for removing off-street parking requirements. Shoup's ideas are coming to the streets in San Francisco's new demand-responsive parking system. Loyal Shoupistas work to spread and implement his ideas.

What to Do About Suburbs?

lunit — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:15:43 -0800

As suburbs become home to more poor people, immigrants, minorities, senior citizens and households with no children and we face what may be the end of suburbia, planners are wondering what do we do with suburbs? Ellen Dunham-Jones thinks we should retrofit them. Victor Dover lays out some issues (pdf). Aaron Renn has a strategy, but Alex Steffan isn't sure it's even worth the time.

The Changing Face of the Inner City

digaman — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:43:58 -0800

Are you a young middle-class creative type (probably white) who has chosen to live in an urban neighborhood that your parents would have shunned? Have the families that formerly lived in your neighborhood (probably not white) been pushed out by soaring rents and real-estate prices to the city fringes or suburbs? The New Republic on demographic inversion.

Sprawl-induced aberrant driving behavior

mcwetboy — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:34:00 -0800

Sprawl-induced aberrant driving behavior is a theory proposed by University of Ottawa geography professor Barry Wellar. Suburban roads, built for speed, encourage aggressive driving and bad habits that drivers can sort of get away with in the suburbs, but that carry over to other areas. So that's why it always seems that they're trying to run me off the sidewalk.