January 2009 Archives
Cars On Sidewalks Draw Parking Guru's Ire
By Jeremy Rosenberg
January 28, 2009
Last week, TTLA mentioned Donald Shoup, UCLA professor of urban planning and, among many honors and accomplishments, past director of the university's Institute of Transportation Studies.
This blog emailed Prof. Shoup to check in and see if he could answer user JK's comment left at the end of that recent post.
Shoup's famously been labeled the rock star of parking, not the rock star of stop-and-go traffic, so turns out that JK's question wasn't up his alley. (Still expecting a reply from another expert later this week or next, JK.) But something else, something parking related, was on Professor Shoup's mind: Cars parked on sidewalks.
Permalink Discuss (3 Comments)Convergence, Depressions, And The WPA
By Jeremy Rosenberg
January 24, 2009
On January 5, 1999, the Weekly World News published a cover story titled, "Crisis Alert! Great Depression by March!" The subheads, split by a torn $100 bill featuring a bemused-looking Ben Franklin, read:
"Will you survive the coming financial chaos?" and in all caps, "WORLD ECONOMIC COLLAPSE LOOMS, WARN WALL STREET INSIDERS."
Permalink DiscussObama Time
By Jeremy Rosenberg
January 20, 2009
So, today's the big day....
The great majority of think tank-centric media coverage of the period between election day and noon's scheduled inauguration has focused on transition co-director John Podesta, president of the Washington, D.C. based Center for American Progress
Permalink DiscussWant Less Traffic? RAND Offers Help
By Jeremy Rosenberg
January 15, 2009
Los Angeles has a traffic problem.
You've probably at some point noticed this, oui?
If not, then maybe it's because your car is moving so slowly at this very moment, as you scroll through this post on your Blackberry Storm, violating this law, that you probably think you're home already.
Permalink Discuss (5 Comments)"Belief Tank" - Says Doonsebury's Bush
By Jeremy Rosenberg
January 13, 2009
LAT Piece Points To Tanks' Role
By Jeremy Rosenberg
January 5, 2009
Today's L.A. Times features an article near and dear to this blog's ongoing 'What is a Think Tank?' discussion.
The story, headlined "Think tanks get more direct" in the print edition of the periodical and "Foundations take active role on health policy," in the online version, was written from Sacramento by Jordan Rau.
Permalink DiscussMore KCET Local Blogs
404 City- Read Ophelia Chong's latest post, The Bespoke Book
Blur + Sharpen- Read Holly Willis's latest post, Proud and Passionate City
Cakewalk- Read Erin Aubry Kaplan's latest post, It Can't Happen Here
Movie Miento- Read Adolfo Guzman-Lopez's latest post, Bloguero
Pixeltown- Read Pixelbot's latest post, links for 2009-01-16
The Other Room- Read Kevin Ferguson's latest post, The Virtual Field Trip
Where We Are- Read D.J. Waldie's latest post, 22. Unsuitable art, unsuitable places
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