Some more notes about urban design:
1. Communities vie for uses that produce sales tax dollars such as
shopping centers and office parks. That's called fiscalization
of land use.
2. By adding traffic fatalities to homicides, William H. Lucy,
professor of urban and environmental and planning at U.Va.
with graduate research assistant Raphael Rabalais show
inner ring suburbs are safest place to live.
Lucy reports, 'The truth is people traveling from
the exurbs to the city have many more opportunities to
get killed than those traveling closer in'.
Lucy and Rabalais' Original Study[.PDF], press release: 1, 2.
News coverage: Contra Costa Times, Perimetergo.
3. A letter from Mike Jacoubowsky argues the grade-school
environment of removing lockers and prohibiting cel phones encourages
students to bring cars, if only to for use as lockers to secure after-school
gear. No wonder few children bicycle or walk to school.
4. Another study shows 70 percent of tot run-over deaths involve SUVs.
Posted by dc at September 3, 2002 08:38 AM