[Houston Strategies] Summer 3Q09 Highlights

[Tory Gattis]

First, a quick note: I'll be traveling over the next week or so, and probably not blogging.

It's time for the Summer 3Q09 quarterly highlights post. These posts have been chosen with a particular focus on significant ideas I'd like to see kept alive for discussion and action, and they're mainly targeted at new readers who want to get caught up with a quick overview of the Houston Strategies landscape. I also like to track what I think of as "reference posts" that sum up a particular topic or argument.

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September

• Why the feds should stay out of high-speed rail (and most transportation)
  

August

• Is a 'SmartCode' the answer to Ashby?
  
• Houston's intangible identity
  

July

• The Economist special report on Texas and TX vs. CA
• Transform NASA into the "Google of Government"

And from Spring 2Q09

June

• Mitigating some issues from Houston Urbanism (last paragraph)
• Securing Houston's economic and world-city future
• Ike Dike (affordable hurricane protection for Houston)
  
• Why rail to the airport doesn't make sense
  

May

• Surface transportation innovations for Houston
• Gas cost vs. commuting and a realistic climate change solution
  

April

• The four Houstons
• Radically increasing IAH express bus ridership and revenue
  
• >>>>Texas and America's four great growth waves<<<<
  

Winter 1Q09:

March

• Texas on the brink? (or maybe not - immigration, opportunity, education, and rankings)
• How to make Houston and Texas the next Silicon Valley
• The Grand Parkway, stimulus-for-tolls, and the secret benefit of HOV->HOT conversions
  
• Ten principles for developing a great city
  

February

• Houston vs. how Americans want to live
• Comprehensively addressing graffiti
  

January

• A Pragmatic Approach to Houston’s Future (part 1, part 2)
• Keep Houston Houston
  

And don't forget the highlights from the first four years. For what it's worth, I think the best ideas are found there, often in the first year (I had a lot "stored up" before I started blogging).

• 2008 Highlights here
  
• 2007 Highlights here
  
• 2006 Highlights here
• 2005 Highlights here

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Posted By Tory Gattis to Houston Strategies at 10/07/2009 08:33:00 PM