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| All Offcite Posts Tagged: Walking | Date Posted | Categories |
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Can Houston Feed Itself?Illustration by Amir Kasem The next issue of Cite is at the bindery. Enjoy this preview and subscribe or join the Rice Design Alliance now to get the whole issue. |
12.01.09 | Architecture |
What Parts of Houston are Walkable?Map generated by Walk Score. Green means very walkable, red means car-dependent, and yellow is in between. The above map purportedly shows what parts of Houston are walkable. An algorithm generates the scores using distances from a given location to different types of amenities. That measurement is weighted according to population density. So a place where [...] |
04.15.09 | Architecture Infrastructure |
Houston Belongs to the CarsBuffalo Bayou Montage [Shannon Stoney] Shortly after I moved to Houston, I had the weird thought that it was actually a city where cars were in charge and ran the city. Humans were just sort of their servants. We provide them places to park; we maintain them and gas them up. The actual environment of Houston [...] |
02.24.09 | Infrastructure |
I fought the infrastructure and the infrastructure wonBolt on sidewalk on Old Spanish Trail When I lived in Houston Heights, I could walk to the grocery store, the post office, the drug store, the public library, the hardware store, the bank, and the garden center. And I did. But recently my partner and I moved to University Oaks, a small neighborhood [...] |
02.14.09 | Architecture Infrastructure |
Houston: The Walking CityPedestrian realm cross-section showing a 15 foot minimum distance from a mixed-use development to the street [From City of Houston Urban Corridor Planning] The city released an implementation report for the urban corridor planning initiative, which aims to “create a high quality urban environment in areas along METRO’s light rail corridors.” It is the product of [...] |
01.14.09 | Infrastructure Place |
