tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post7026898220158054919..comments2024-03-26T14:19:33.332-07:00Comments on Bench Grass: The Electric City, I: The First TripErik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-71175445530626570552012-03-15T13:44:43.116-07:002012-03-15T13:44:43.116-07:00Well, I can't speak for London in this one, bu...Well, I can't speak for London in this one, but there's a pretty clear (re)development effect from separated-grade heavy transit in Vancouver, with Burnaby's Metrotown as the classic example. <br /><br />By fiddling with density limits, urban governments in B.C.'s Lower Mainland have captured some portion of the profit that accrues to landowners when a major transit stop is built in an area. I'm sure that that's true elsewhere, it's just that I'm not an urban development theorist, and don't want to sound off about it.<br /><br />I also can't help thinking that this has something to do with the interminable debate over LRT versus separate grade lines.Erik Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-10362778070431483382012-03-14T12:48:45.025-07:002012-03-14T12:48:45.025-07:00It wasn't just in the London area that the tra...It wasn't just in the London area that the trams and subways and elevateds were built for the landowners.<br />In America we had a situation where the financial types would buy up big chunks of land from farmers every few thousand feet and build a tram down the road with a stop at the land they owned, and build commerical and multifamily residence buildings at the stops.<br />The beautiful Huntington Library (really a museum) in Los Angeles was built by one of these people.<br />I wonder why we didn't do it that way with the Interstate Highway system? Would have helped out financing if all the malls were owned and leased out by the government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com