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A Conference Held to Honor my Father, Howard F. Ahmanson Sr.: “WWHD — What Would Howard Do?”

  • California
August 24, 2018October 1, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The “WWHD Conference — What Would Howard Ahmanson, Sr., Do?” — was held August 1, 2018, the year marking the 50th anniversary of my father’s death.  I decided I wanted to sponsor it, mostly to honor him. In the tumultuous year […]

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A New Federal Department of Cities?

  • Politics
February 17, 2013July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Oh good grief.  Don’t we already have a Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Florida?  As C. Northcote Parkinson pointed out more than 50 years ago in Parkinson’s Law, only dictatorships have a cabinet larger than approximately 20.  It […]

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Agriculture in the ‘burbs and exurbs’

  • Economics
February 11, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Looks like the plummeting housing market has given a new lease of life to agriculture in the ‘burbs and exurbs.’ Related: “U.S. Farmers Reclaim Land From Developers,” by Robbie Whelan at The Wall Street Journal

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The Suburban Paradox

  • Culture
January 17, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The attached article criticizes the effect of ‘greenbelts’ in Britain, and calls for ‘green patches’ instead of ‘green belts.’  The paradox is that a lot of what people move out to the suburbs for is precisely what these anti-suburban NIMBYs […]

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A New Word – ‘Blurb’

  • California
December 4, 2010July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In the old days a ‘blurb’ was a positive promotional recommendation statement on a book jacket.  I have done a few myself.  Now we are informed by the developer of Civita, an urban infill project in San Diego, that ‘blurb’ […]

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New Urbanism: Not Suitable for Large Families

  • Culture
November 1, 2010July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Jonathan V. Last has written an excellent article on natality in America and why we have few large families now, whereas 50 years ago they were very common.  (I can testify, being of a certain age myself, that I as […]

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One Reason to be a Red Sox Fan…

  • Politics
August 9, 2010July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One reason to be a Red Sox fan is that they were the one team to rehab their stadium without using any government money – and this in blue big-government Massachusetts! Mark Yost describes this in the Wall Street Journal […]

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A Return to City Life After 20 Suburban Years

  • Politics
June 24, 2010July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Ah, so the real reason people with kids live in different places than people without kids – it’s hard to find a three bedroom place in the hip parts of town. In Response To: “A Return to City Life After […]

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More Atlanta Oddities

  • Politics
May 23, 2010July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The territory of Incorporated cities in Georgia is often circular, giving a stroking appearance on the map.  They do not cover most of the urbanized territory.  I would guess that half of Atlanta’s population of 5.9 million lives directly under one of the […]

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Atlanta

  • Politics
May 22, 2010July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As I take more of the tours provided by the New Urbanism conference I am attending, I get to find out some of the attractive and interesting things about Atlanta.  It’s easy to dismiss: “Sprawlanta” When people from here want […]

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