Comments on: Observations about Houston http://www.chrisamiller.com/blog/2005/09/11/observations-about-houston/ politics, tech, humor, and science since 2002 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Liz http://www.chrisamiller.com/blog/2005/09/11/observations-about-houston/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Liz Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:50:21 +0000 http://www.chrisamiller.com/wp/?p=887#comment-283 Sarcasm... yep. Ok- mixed use community it's not, but that's what you get for moving to Texas. Maybe you'd like Austin? Have you been there? Or maybe you should move over yonder in my neck of the woods- mass transit (and everything else- including the shitty stuff) aplenty. Speaking of mixed use communities- I'm going down to the corner to get a coke... Oh grad school... it will be a long night. Sarcasm… yep. Ok- mixed use community it’s not, but that’s what you get for moving to Texas. Maybe you’d like Austin? Have you been there? Or maybe you should move over yonder in my neck of the woods- mass transit (and everything else- including the shitty stuff) aplenty.

Speaking of mixed use communities- I’m going down to the corner to get a coke… Oh grad school… it will be a long night.

]]> By: Chris http://www.chrisamiller.com/blog/2005/09/11/observations-about-houston/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Chris Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:19:57 +0000 http://www.chrisamiller.com/wp/?p=887#comment-282 Mixed use is a little different. One of the ideas behind those kinds of neighborhoods is that its residents have the convenience of walking to all the stuff they need. People live above shops, there's a food market down the street, a coffee shop on the corner, etc.<br /><br /> Houston is very much a mecca of flat suburban sprawl - there's no effort to be in vogue or even practical. It's the growth in the suburbs, cars are mandatory model. There also seems to be little desire to change that fact. Sigh...<br /><br /> So far I seem to be missing the whole 'Texas charm' thing that makes people so proud of the state. Houston's not a bad to live, but right now I can't see it as someplace I'll be settling down in once I get out of school. Mixed use is a little different. One of the ideas behind those kinds of neighborhoods is that its residents have the convenience of walking to all the stuff they need. People live above shops, there’s a food market down the street, a coffee shop on the corner, etc.

Houston is very much a mecca of flat suburban sprawl – there’s no effort to be in vogue or even practical. It’s the growth in the suburbs, cars are mandatory model. There also seems to be little desire to change that fact. Sigh…

So far I seem to be missing the whole ‘Texas charm’ thing that makes people so proud of the state. Houston’s not a bad to live, but right now I can’t see it as someplace I’ll be settling down in once I get out of school.

]]> By: Liz http://www.chrisamiller.com/blog/2005/09/11/observations-about-houston/comment-page-1/#comment-281 Liz Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:20:50 +0000 http://www.chrisamiller.com/wp/?p=887#comment-281 Zoning laws aren't a great idea anyway; they don't do much to control sprawl and in many ways they encourage it. Think of the church/strip club situation as a "mixed use community"- that's what the planners and architects call it and it's very much in vouge right now. Zoning laws aren’t a great idea anyway; they don’t do much to control sprawl and in many ways they encourage it. Think of the church/strip club situation as a “mixed use community”- that’s what the planners and architects call it and it’s very much in vouge right now.

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