tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post8645503765990281422..comments2024-03-28T14:02:40.132-04:00Comments on Discovering Urbanism: What will a recovery look like?Daniel Nairnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14127732825472374125noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-36121068351594645852017-07-15T10:34:34.849-04:002017-07-15T10:34:34.849-04:00يمكنكم الان الحصو على صيانة ال جي الان فى مصر , وك...يمكنكم الان الحصو على <a href="http://maintenanceg.com/Lg-Agent-Service-Egypt-Center.html" rel="nofollow">صيانة ال جي</a> الان فى مصر , وكافة المحافظات التان , وباقل الاسعار الممكن الت ىنقدمة الان فى مصر , كما اننا نقد العديد من المميزات المختلفة الان <br />maintenanceghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08757097790712517942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-48467910677704938522009-11-18T04:10:26.724-05:002009-11-18T04:10:26.724-05:00On the employment front, smart growth really has b...On the employment front, smart growth really has been a non-factor. If anything the higher prices for residential usages maybe crowding out employers from city centers. <br /><br />According to Brookings study of job sprawl, most of the regions praised as smart growth success stories are also the regions with rapid employment decentralization. Note the job sprawl in Portland, Seattle, Washington DC, Minneapolis. See table 5 here. <br /><br />http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2009/0406_job_sprawl_kneebone/20090406_jobsprawl_kneebone.pdf<br /><br />Most smart growth policies have relied extensively on metro rail transit programs. But one of the unintended consequences of these rail programs was to make suburban office complexes along those rail lines essentially part of the CBD. The suburban office parks along these rail spurs areas have access to the transit networks for the entire region, but offer much lower office rates. They also offer shorter commutes for those employees who wish to drive in from the burbs. As gas prices go up and as long as office rents remain cheap in the burbs, there are incentives to move out to the burbs.<br /><br />In practice so far smart growth hasn't involved higher value employment in city centers as much as the transformation of older office buildings into new high rise residential units. <br /><br />If you look at CBD's they are still having problems retaining employers. Chevron left SF for San Ramon. The economic center for the bay area shifted from the City of SF to the very suburban Silicon Valley. The Venture Capital firms in the bay area left SF for Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. The largest law and accounting firms branch offices in the bay area are generally in the Silicon Valley, (not SF) because the Silicon Valley is where most of the SF bay area Fortune 500 companies reside. <br /><br />Economically speaking the City of San Francisco is now a high end residential suburb of the Silicon Valley with a lot of tourism related business. Google runs a shuttle between Mountain View and SF, but its to pick up employees in SF and drop them off to work in Mountain View.<br /><br />The corporate headquarters, the accounting, legal and banking jobs are dispersing throughout the region and the high end work is going to the high end suburbs. <br /><br />If you look at Los Angeles region their is a similiar pattern. Downtown Los Angeles is having a residential renaisance, but the area has lost most of its large Fortune 500 companies that built skyscrapers in downtown LA. First Interstate, Arco are long gone. <br /><br />Disney is headquartered in Burbank. Taco Bell is in Irvine. Amgen is in Thousand Oaks. The major law firms accounting firms are as likely to be in Centry City, Beverly Hills or Orange County as to be in downtown LA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com