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Yes, the census numbers are what I quoted from above.  Total net migration into NYC was 18,000.  That consists of international net migration 128,000 and domestic net migration of negative 110,000 (that is to say 110,000 more people chose to leave NYC for other US locations than chose to move to NYC from other US locations). 

 

Meanwhile, the much smaller and car-choked, unhealthy, unsustainable, undesirable Houston had total net migration of 81,000.  That consists of international net migration of 25,500 and net domestic migration of 55,600 (that is to say, 55,600 more people chose to move to Houston from other US locations than chose to move from Houston to other US locations.)

 

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk

Deal with it. 

This park would be a good opportunity in the future to bridge-cap over I-69 like Klyde Warren Park in Dallas.

Yeah, I went there..

Another parking lot bites the dust..

The streets are pretty bad, but apparently not bad enough to get people to slow down over said potholes. 

^Whatever, the trains are already full. We need jetpacks, stat.

Houston Chronicle building.

Why did they cut down the trees in the ROW?

It's become a lone modern art masterpiece.

There's still the Melrose tower..

Days Inn should be converted into a high-rise mausoleum. 

What's with the weird Post sign in the acute angle?

Never been stuck in traffic on 10 using the Katy Tollway, I use it even on late nights to avoid the drunks.. 

Money is what makes the world go round and time is money. I consider myself lucky to have lived in both a sleepy suburb and in the left ventricle of this town. There is a psychological limit to commuter driving, around 30 to 45 minutes; anything longer is considered a super-commute (something I did for work on occasion). In terms of the 10 expansion and Culberson's role in it, I think he did well in est'n a bread & butter legacy for the shape of his district. Politicians are only as good as their constituents, in the sense that sprawling development is a defacto form of segregation with implicit symptoms of racism. So I can see how divisive the personal motive issue can be for some but the reality is and without regard to his rail line politics, the 10 redevelopment was a form of socialism that really works as a rising economic tide for west Houston and thereby all of Houston. I also understand that to be a politician you have to take some pretty unpopular positions (now, but not 13 years ago) like he has; when you get to know people, and I mean really get to know People, on a personal level you realize that we all suffer in some way or ways. It's why I live downtown now and am contemplating selling my car for a car subscription; the socialism downtown is just healthier, walking and all that parklife. Plus the big secret was that suburbs are where the Haves traditionally wanted to live, now we got "diversified housing stock" and "multiple bids on the first day." I sure hope we overbuild cause my rent needs a relief valve. Praise no zoning!

A greenbelt park would be really cool for the entire metro region. Sprawl can be fixed with good architecture; even old sprawl heading southwest from Montrose to Sharpstown to Sugar Land has a great history of examples where thoughtful place making washed ashore in time. Oh yeah and that greenbelt park saves your little nature too, know we call that?

-Win-Win

He can block rail, but can he get Richmond re-surfaced & paved?

Such a waste.

I gonna miss getting lunch at the ET grill ("eat grill").

Main St. has a new-found, prestigious address branding among service oriented firms. Energy is still about Louisiana and Smith streets.

How does this solve panhandling?

I think it gets down to whether one considers internet as a purely private good, or as infrastructure that benefits society as a whole, like roads, airports, landlines or sewers.  If the latter, then it would be considered perfectly valid for it to be subsidized in some way, as are roads, airports, landlines and sewers.  

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/12/30/municipal_broadband_s_death_by_lobbyist_san_antonio_has_the_fiber_they_should.html

And CPS Energy already has the fiber. So it's not a question of should a municipally owned utility spend money on building a fiber-optic network. It's a question of given that the municipally owned utility already has a fiber-optic network, shouldn't it do something with it? The Texas state Legislature, doing the bidding of local telecom firms, says no. It can't.

 

Must be a different design entry. The park has "MIDTOWN" spelled out similar to the I :heart: Houston sign on I-10.

You can see through the Lars Bang addition now with windows taken out on both eastern and western faces.

The old building looks encased in glass formaldehyde, like Stone's 2 Columbia Cir. by Allied Works' for MAD. 

It's a mirrored twin.

ugh

and boxes too.

What boxes?

Gross.

http://www.gsd.harva...ck/26_Fein.html

One wonders, with this proliferation of Modernist-minimalist residential properties and the growing spate of shelter magazines promoting similar styles of living as well as a mass audience for now household-name architects,15 is Modernism just a new sign of hipness for the ultra rich and those that aspire to join the circle of real estate fashionistas? By branding minimalist-chic living in properties priced far beyond the reach of average homebuyers, are starchitect designers collaborating in the creation of a culture of good taste inseparable from social exclusion?

In 1919, Georg Simmel observed that fashion is, for the middle classes, tied inextricably to a need for belonging and is, for the upper classes, deeply fixed to a desire for distinction.16 Perhaps it is the exclusivity of maintaining truly minimalist conditions in one’s dwelling and the exclusivity that ownership of such rarities as these properties brings that secures the rich in the realm of distinction so desired by all hoarders of cultural capital. The painful question is: Are these social constructs in any way compatible with Modern architecture’s essentially utopian foundations, and are these starchitects — at least those truly capable of imagining new modes of living for all classes — creating and contributing to a lifestyle that they themselves admire?

Why is it that identifiable "architecture" is always the province of the affluent?

Disclaimer: I grew up poor in rural Louisiana and have to admit a chip on my shoulder every time I see "tetris" styled architecture under construction. Why is it that so much emphasis is placed on expensive interior finish materials yet exteriors are slapped with stucco? And why is it that hardly any other of my graduating architecture classmates haven't ever really struggled just to live let alone foot an unpaid summer internship or even have the proper attire to associate with potential cliente? I think maybe I was born into the wrong passions...

Your thoughts?

Wish we could make it, but I've gotten some informational interviews with some pretty fancy arch firms in DFW. Have fun, ska shows are always ragers!