Category Archives: Personal/Admin

The Different Cities We Inhabit

Posted on 2013/05/20 by

I do not know many people who live in Boston proper. I know about a hundred who live in the Greater Boston area, but only a small minority lives in the city proper, as is of course true in general. … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal/Admin, Politics and Society, Providence, Urbanism | Leave a comment

SkyTrain and UBC

Posted on 2013/02/18 by

I live about 3 minutes from an express bus stop, where I can get the express bus and be at UBC within 15 minutes, whereupon I can walk from the diesel bus loop to my classroom in 6 minutes. Since … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal/Admin, Transportation, Urban Transit, Vancouver | 64 Comments

Asymmetric Mode Choice

Posted on 2012/11/24 by

In most models I have seen, ridership and mode choice are assumed to be symmetric: if I take the bus to work, I will also take it back home. Of course those models distinguish home from work: if a bus … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal/Admin, Transportation, Urban Transit | 25 Comments

How Residential Blocks Act As Barriers

Posted on 2012/10/12 by

Two weeks ago, I found a board game store in Vancouver, and through it a variety of gaming events. The store is located about five blocks from my apartment, and I first saw it from a bus nearly two months … Continue reading →

Posted in Pedestrian Observations, Personal/Admin, Urban Design, Urbanism, Vancouver | 17 Comments

Immigration Choice

Posted on 2012/09/23 by

Houston booster and blogger Tory Gattis has a theory of what he calls opportunity urbanism, i.e. a focus on upward mobility as the primary goal of urban policy. Responding to a post of his on The Urbanophile, in which the … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal/Admin, Politics and Society | 11 Comments

Pedestrian Observations from Vancouver: Street Width and Building Height

Posted on 2012/07/26 by

I moved to Vancouver last weekend. The slow pace of posting will probably continue for another week, but I do have multiple posts in the pipeline. I am currently at a downtown hotel, commuting to Kitsilano to look at apartments … Continue reading →

Posted in Pedestrian Observations, Personal/Admin, Urban Design, Urbanism, Vancouver | 26 Comments

Formal Announcement

Posted on 2012/01/30 by

Those of you following my Twitter feed already know this: I’m moving to Vancouver sometime in this summer for a two-year position at UBC. Expect a dramatic reduction in the number of posts expressing exasperation with local transit planning beginning … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal/Admin | 17 Comments

Quick Note: No More Track Maps

Posted on 2011/12/07 by

I regret to say that I’ve taken down the track maps by Rich E Green that I’d hosted, in accordance with requests by him and by his employer, to whom he sold the maps. This involves breaking past links; I … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal/Admin, Regional Rail, Transportation | 8 Comments

Categories

Posted on 2011/08/05 by

I’ve just added categories to this blog, due to what appears to be popular demand. I saw too many hits coming from people who Googled key phrases together with the name of this blog, which suggests the blog itself needs … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal/Admin | 5 Comments

Where Did You Grow Up?

Posted on 2011/08/05 by

The last few weeks’ posts on Old Urbanist made me think about what urban forms people prefer, and how it’s affected by what they are familiar with. Rather than speculate on what people in my social circle prefer, I yield … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, New York, Personal/Admin, Urban Design, Urbanism | 34 Comments