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I've excluded Austin blogs and blogs that focus on just one city.  These are in no particular order.

1.

 Ryan Avent 

Elegant writing on urban economics and transit.

2.

 Creative Class 

Richard Florida's consistently interesting ideas on why some cities flourish and others do not.

I've excluded Austin blogs and blogs that focus on just one city.  These are in no particular order.

1.

 Ryan Avent 

Elegant writing on urban economics and transit.

2.

 Creative Class 

Richard Florida's consistently interesting ideas on why some cities flourish and others do not.

The Overhead Wire points to this at the ULI blog:

It implemented a trial road-pricing system for Stockholm and is running an advertising campaign touting the results:

It implemented a trial road-pricing system for Stockholm and is running an advertising campaign touting the results:

Gary Barnes, a professor at the University of Minnesota, wrote a paper back in 2001 that calculated weighted densities for a number of U.S. urbanized areas.

 Like me, he used the term "perceived density."

If you haven't noticed, I mostly blog about urban economics and Austin development.  I rarely blog about transportation issues, though, and when I do I mostly write about congestion pricing of roads.

So where are my posts on light rail?  That ought to be within my bailiwick. 

Today is the second anniversary of my first post.  

I've covered this before, but it's popped up again, thanks to The Overhead Wire and others.

A short summary:

Take a look at this photo of Budapest from The Overhead Wire (republished with permission):

What's your gut reaction to it?