Des' City Links of the Week 2021-07-15
This week's planning, transport, and urban development links of interest
Hi everyone,
Here are a few interesting reads on cities, development, and transport that I’ve come across recently. Please share!
Planning/Development
In fast growing Charlotte NC, duplexes and townhomes have been legalized citywide:
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article252617598.html and https://slate.com/business/2021/06/charlotte-single-family-zoning-segregation-housing.html
Advice from Alain Bertaud on housing affordability and density in New York:
https://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/blog/densification-advice-for-new-york-citys-next-mayor-to-address-the-housing-affordability-crisis
Lovely photos of a miniaturized Hong Kong:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/06/photos-preserving-hong-kong-miniature/619316/
“Value capture mechanisms that are triggered by development tacitly punish landowners who share land value, and tacitly reward owners who withhold it. The fair and efficient approach to value capture involves taxing land, not development, and encouraging rather than discouraging the production of new homes.”
https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/value-capture-reconsidered/
Conor Dougherty on YIMBY, NIMBY, and the west coast’s housing crisis:
https://www.vancouverrealestatepodcast.com/podcast/the-west-coast-housing-crisis-with-ny-times-conor-dougherty/ [podcast]
Releasing the shackles on mid-rise development:
https://brandondonnelly.com/2021/06/25/releasing-the-shackles-on-mid-rise-development/
Here’s a handful of interesting new developments and architecture from the Netherlands:
Four storey apartments! https://architectenweb.nl/projecten/project.aspx?ID=41667
Rural/exurban rowhouses! https://architectenweb.nl/projecten/project.aspx?ID=41732
Urban rowhouses! https://architectenweb.nl/projecten/project.aspx?ID=42784
Mobility/Transport
“Within automated on-demand ride services, exclusive use services are cost effective for more cases compared to pooled, shared-use type options, with uncertain consequences for future travel demand.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0965856421001737
Why do users of shared e-scooters pay so much more for street use than users of private vehicles?
https://cityobservatory.org/miamis-e-scooters-revisiting-the-double-standard/
Should cycle tracks be one-way or two-way? It depends!
https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2021/07/got-any-salmon-sorted.html
It’s not just the pavement that produces the heat island effect, it’s the vehicle flows:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15869-6
Nice profile of this summer’s pedestrian streets in Montreal:
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/here-are-the-montreal-streets-going-pedestrian-only-this-summer
[NL] or [FR]? Usually the link will be image-heavy. In Chrome, right click and select ‘Translate to English’ for the text.