A few months ago, students at the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs had the opportunity to sit down and speak with Tom Madison, former Executive Director of the New York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA). He was reportedly ousted for some combination of failure to ensure snowplowed highways and “inconsistent” accounting practices within the semi-autonomous agency…. Read more »
Much has been said about China’s “big city disease.” As population, industry, and traffic are growing in cities like Shanghai, what’s the impact on how the city operates? Data from the General Bureau of Statistics showed that by the end of 2013, Shanghai’s permanent residence population was 24.15 million; among them was the native population… Read more »
Image via Wikimedia Commons Form Based Coding (FBC), a land development regulation, is sweeping the country as city after city adopts the New Urbanism technique of controlling their built environment. FBCs have been adopted in 252 municipalities since 1981, with 82 percent of those within the last decade. Reasons vary from a desire to spur… Read more »