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There's a lot of redevelopment potential in Northside...but is there really that much in Clifton gaslight?

cute!

As a UC grad, I really would not have minded picking up the streetcar at the edge of campus. It's only a few minutes' walk. But that's just my opinion.

^PS I think they are actually surface-parking a lot of Manhattan Harbour. They could push their pricepoints down, which I think they should, since it's kind of isolated and they have competition with better riverfront locations.

^He is correct, although fixed transit will lower lender's parking thresholds. Refer to examples in Dallas, Charlotte, Bay Area, etc. For example, if you could somehow get a streetcar line going down Route 8 from Newport into Dayton, you could put a TOD overlay onto both Ovation and Manhattan Harbour, and probably get some lenders to accept a lower parking ratio. This would allow for smaller, cheaper units.

Was this more or less than expected?

I'm thinking 20 years.The Banks is 1,800 units. Ovation is only 970. Manhattan Harbour reports up to 2,000. That's about 4,800 units. I think Cincinnati could pump out 250 new riverfront households a year, but not 500.

I want to go see them!

I have no connections to the City anymore at all, but I can tell you as someone who's worked for many city governments in transit planning, having one department or another start thinking about accommodating transit is no indication that it's imminent. I think we will know more after the stimulus appropriations, which are in just a few months at the most.

China unveils fastest operating route. 390 Km/h. BBC News - World's fastest train unveiled in China

^Good to know, I want to go down there this weekend.

"We all know the placebo effect is quite powerful. If you're paying $6, $7 or $8 a gallon for milk versus $3, you might think it tastes better simply because it costs more," Galen says." Oh you disgusting piece of shit. Of course your factory milk tastes worse than organic, you milk your cows until they literally discharge pus into the pump stream, then boil it off.

Ohh, imagine that. An Irish Catholic gets wooed to an Irish Catholic university. Didn't see that one coming. It's sad how they skirf teams between the end of season and the bowl game. That's kicking your teams ass on the way out the door. One of a million reasons why I don't even bother to follow big money college and pro sports. You are rooting for a brand, nothing more.

MUCH better looking than their old Corbusier-style rendering.

Rural air subsidies, even though they are pretty small, are one of those things that screams "appease my district." I also had no idea that some of the tax of airline tickets goes to building and maintaining little-used rural airfields.

A job. :(

All these stories bring up another point that I think is far, far more important than WHERE you go to school. And that's WHEN you go to school. Human brains mature in abstract thinking and computation around age 22. Emotional maturity lags WAY behind, into the 30's, and recent research indicates that emotion just keeps maturing into old age. Given this fact alone, it's amazing that anyone graduates from college in four years. A lot of Nordic countries still have mandatory domestic military service at age 18, and I know that in Germany this can be replaced with a year of public service or international development service. This might not rub well with America's concept of personal freedom, but this country sure does excel at graduating 18 year olds who fall flat on their faces.

Yay, that was easy. Now I don't have to go spend another half an hour on Wikipedia.

Where is global warming when you need it. :(

Lafayette. Modeled that whole place in Sketchup.

Please try to keep in mind the bigger picture here everyone, which is that the historic basin bears the burden of social services for the entire county, when ironically it is also the richest cultural asset. I know everyone agrees in principal that this isn't the ideal situation. Every time this topic comes up, people indulge in sword-rattling for their side of the issue, then quickly back off in subsequent posts and play the semantics game, with the favorite line being "you misinterpreted what I said." Then everyone gets to wade through 12 posts of it.

One firm I worked at had a wide variety of interns and new hires. Another place I worked had a love affair with UPenn, even though I thought all the interns they brought in from there were pretty useless academics. My opinion might be a bit jaded, but I have found in my limited experience that unless a program is very well known as being a knock-out, like Architecture at Cincinnati, or Landscape Architecture at Purdue, most managers will idolize private and ivy leauge grads because it looks good on paper and sounds good dropping fancy names at a luncheon.

^Because ColDay would end up wedged into an I-75 overpass pylon while he was posting a 150 photo mega-thread on his way to work. Or because MTS would simply cease to exist in corporeal form. Take your pick. (Actually its a valid question but someone else can answer it better than I could.)