Portland is a PR machine for light rail & streetcar
Here are Some Facts About Portland
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Alan Pisarski (author of Commuting in America) Gives an in depth presentation on travel habits, characteristics and congestion. |
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Wendell Cox describes how city planning is destroying the American Dream, especially housing affordability
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Owen McShane Describes how low density communities can be more sustainable than high density using his own sustainable community as an example |
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Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby explains how redevelopment takes money from basic government services and harms people. |
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How traffic calming actually kills many times as may people by slowing emergency responses as are potentially saved by slowing traffic. |
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James Heartfield describes how most land is off limits to building in England, leading to high housing costs. USA is following a similar path.
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Alan Pisarski: Credibility; Vision; Plan; Finance Alan Pisarski describes history of the interstate highway system, financing, politics and the future. |
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The Anti-Car Movement in Britain An overview of British methods of harassing car drivers, includes speed humps, narrowing roads, bus lanes, spy cameras, speed cameras, serpentine devices, congestion charging. |
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The Planning Penalty - How Smart Growth Makes Housing Unaffordable Randal O’Toole describes how city planners are making housing unaffordable in many areas of the country, including California’s draconian LAFCOs, CEQA and appeals process |
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Michael Cunneen tells how Albuquerque New Mexico decided to remove speed humps because they save fewer lives through accident reduction than they lose due to slower emergency response. |
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Wendell Cox presents some results from his on-going studies of urban growth trends around the world, including links between transportation and prosperity, housing ownership & affluence, affluence & density and planning’s damage to prosperity. |
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Jim Dale Helps low income people get better jobs and improve their standard of living by helping then achieve car ownership |
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The Case for Privatizing Roads Gabriel Roth (Independent Institute) makes the case for privatizing roads. |
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How to Make Housing Expensive: The British Way Mark Pennington looks at the current British housing prices and underlying factors, how land use regulations has affected them and what lessons can we learn. |
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What is Sustainable Development Skaidra Smith-Heisters talks about is and is not sustainable development and urban planning practices and results. |
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Sam Staley talks about sustainable development and its practical problems. Mentions problems with horses before the auto, more people were killed by horses then than by cars today (per capita) |
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Productivity & Prosperity Growth Peter Gordon: good news is that cities will continue to prosper in spite of smart growth’s negative effects. Factors that affect prosperity. |
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Protecting Property Rights in California
Jon Coupal (Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association): |
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The Case for Public-Private Partnerships
Sam Staley (Reason Foundation) |
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Stopping Urban Renewal in San Jose Loraine Wallace Rowe (Coalition for Redevelopment Reform) (1st of two presentations) |
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Don Racheter (President of Public Interest Institute, Iowa) |
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The Public Finance of Private Communities and Private Transit Fred Foldvary |
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John Forester |
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Joel Kotkin, speaker and futurist, author of THE CITY: A GLOBAL HISTORY |
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Stopping redevelopment in San Jose Loraine Wallace Rowe (Coalition for Redevelopment Reform) talks of Stopping redevelopment in San Jose, Redevelopment & city debt (2nd of two presentations) |
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Federal Transportation Funding Adrian Moore (Vice President Reason Foundation)
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James Dellinger (research analyst at the Capital Research Center) |
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Videos of the 2007 American Dream Coalition Conference