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November 10, 2005
Zell-Lurie Center, real estate development survey
Zell-Lurie Center. For the past 14 years, researchers throughout the
country, including government agencies, have used a Wharton survey
conducted by Linneman and Anita Summers, now an emeritus professor of
public policy, management, real estate and education. That survey
covered the 60 largest central cities and 2,474 suburbs in the U.S.
Following up on that effort, the Zell-Lurie Center has launched a
bigger, more complex nationwide survey on residential land use
regulation. The latest survey covers 6,900 jurisdictions with a
response rate of 37%. Three specific metropolitan areas are also
covered in depth -- Philadelphia, Boston and the Bay Area in
California.
Summers talked about some of the questions her researchers have been
asking those who have been surveyed:
* What are the lot development costs; and
* What have been the increases over the past decade ?
* Have they been required to pay the allocable cost of
infrastructure costs and infrastructure support ?
* Have they had open space requirements; and
* Do they need to include affordable housing ?
We are able to analyze these results looking all across the nation,
sorting by rich and poor communities; more educated and less educated
communities; high and fewer pockets of poverty; and combining our
survey data with census data.
-- Anita Summers.
There questions also cover the effects of regulation on certainty,
including length of time for issuance of a building permit, as
uncertainty translates into higher costs. The surveyors also looked
at who is responsible for whatever level of regulation exists in a
community. [*]
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November 09, 2005
Real estate sentiment at Miller Samuel Soapbox
Real estate sentiment and appraisal of the New York market at
Miller Samuel's Soapbox. [*]
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November 08, 2005
Arctic MINI map and photo mashup
NoNo's Arctic MINI map and photo mashup is live.
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November 07, 2005
Tour de NORD: Hudson Bay or Bust III
Mapping the 2006 arctic expedition.
Planning threads:
MINI2
NE MINI
Arctic MINI reference by Ross Trusler.
More about Newfoundland:
Picture gallery by Jerry Curtis.
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November 06, 2005
plazoo
Search for search for stylized facts at the plazoo.
Posted by omor at 10:18 PM | Comments (0)
November 05, 2005
Real Estate in Academia: The Schools
Saunders, UBC
Harvard Joint Center
UCB
Penn (Zell-Lurie Center)
Posted by omor at 07:43 PM | Comments (0)
November 04, 2005
Judith Miller bio
New Yorker bio of person of the month Judith Miller, in the circle
of Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Valerie Palme, Joseph Wilson, Karl Rove
and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
"Unfortunately a lot of fine young people were gotten for perjury
during Watergate."
-Al Haig
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November 03, 2005
Rhetorica: propaganda, spin, journalism and politics,
Rhetorica Network offers analysis and commentary about the rhetoric,
propaganda, and spin of journalism and politics, including analysis of
presidential speeches and election campaigns. [*]
Shows that the Show ME state is still home to touchstones of
journalism since Network.
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November 02, 2005
Saint Louis road geeking
Road geeking around Saint Louis County and STL city, Missouri,
by Jey Ping. Movies and pictures.
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November 01, 2005
Nina Hagen, Les Rita Mitsouko
iTunes Music Store (IMS) sadly lacks content from
Les Rita Mitsouko and their Nina Hagen collection
is woefully thin.
No New York, New York.
I create ecstacy in my world
I know who I am
And I am willing to declare myself to the world
I am a star!
In New York
Whosoever with me
No Smack Jack.
You've never could have thought or guessed
That things could get so far out of hand hahahahaha
I'm gonna see you coming down in a cold sweat running
It's gonna be a different tune that you will soon be humming.
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