Are your taxes paying for the cost of your street? Nitin Gadia has created an interactive mapping tool to explore the answer to this question in his hometown of Ames, Iowa.
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Today we're sharing a fascinating, educational and free tool that you can use to compare transportation spending in all fifty states.
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Urban3 just released a brand new mapping tool. And we think you're going to like it.
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These maps illustrate the way parking lots deplete your town's tax base and alter your landscape to detrimental effect.
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See which cities are getting rid of parking minimums, from Miami to Portland.
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The structural problem in our road building system is that we’ve based these large financial decisions on faulty premises and inaccurate estimations. We’ve justified and enabled the subsidizing of less efficient forms of development through the aid of cost-benefit analysis. The 494 /169 interchange looks great on paper at first glance. It’s going to create jobs, handle more traffic, help the economy, and save time.
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Joe Minicozzi, principal of the econometric consulting firm Urban3, challenges assumptions about land use and development. With tools like basic arithmetic, maps, and 3D visualization using ArcScene and CityEngine, he makes the case against suburban sprawl and reaffirms the value of mixed-use urban development.
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