Regular reader, Bill forwarded this article from the New York Daily News calling it an “outstanding collection of anti-density and anti-market propaganda presented (as always) as objective journalism.” The article is riddled with misconceptions (aka Urbanism Legends) about zoning and development and is a perfect example of the quality of journalism that touches [...]
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June 30th, 2008 | Tags: density, development, nyc, parking, planners, Transportation, Urbanism, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 8 comments |
 printable viewHere’s a link to an interesting article by Scott Page at Planetizen called A Journalistic View of Cities Scott discusses how mainstream journalists are poorly equipped to write appropriately on urban issues aside from than architecture. I was reading the New York Times Magazine special architecture issue a few weeks ago when something [...] June 30th, 2008 | Tags: architects, architecture, cities, Jane Jacobs, journalism, master planning, planning, Urbanism | Category: planning | Leave a comment |
printable viewLast week, a reader submitted a Market Urbanism post to Reddit, a social networking site. The submission generated quite a bit of traffic from the economics category on Reddit. It was #3 on the hot list for economics for a while that day. Seeing what kind of traffic that can be generated from [...] June 30th, 2008 | Tags: social networking | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |
printable viewThis post will be the first of many of an ongoing feature at Market Urbanism entitled Urbanism Legends. (a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) In many public forums and in the blogosphere, I consistently encounter myths about land development and Urban Economics. These myths typically look [...] June 28th, 2008 | Tags: Beverly Hills, construction, demand, density, Economics, Free-market, infrastructure, smart growth, urban growth boundaries, Urban Legends, Urbanism, Urban[ism] Legends, William Graham Sumner, zoning | Category: Economics, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | 30 comments |
printable viewI need help with this one. Is this a phenomenon of statistical cherry-picking or a true trend that should worry us? New York Observer – A Yoke for the White Collar New York’s college grads now hustle for jobs paying 1970s wages. Meet their coping mechanism—massive debt! A younger New Yorker could be [...] June 25th, 2008 | Tags: college, college grads, cost of living, debt, demographic trend, demographics, Economics, immigration trends, manufacturing, manufacturing jobs, nyc, real estate, Wages, white collar jobs | Category: Economics | 4 comments |
printable viewPaul Krugman asks a question that has been addressed at Market Urbansim: But here’s a question rarely asked, at least in Washington: Why should ever-increasing homeownership be a policy goal? How many people should own homes, anyway? Listening to politicians, you’d think that every family should own its home — in fact, that [...] June 24th, 2008 | Tags: condo developers, Economics, energy efficiency, housing, mortgage interest deduction, regressive tax, rental housing, rental properties | Category: Economics, housing | 2 comments |
printable viewI found a link to a great article at FreeColorado.com. It doesn’t apply to urbanism specifically, but conceptually deals with privatization of publicly owned land. Free Colorado – Should Government Own Wilderness? The original article was from Grand Junction Free Press – Armstrong Column: Should the government own, manage wilderness? here’s a few [...] June 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Environment, politics, privatization, Sierra Club, wilderness | Category: privatization | 4 comments |
printable viewphoto at Brooklyn Paper was attributed to Montague Street Business Improvement District Stephen at rationalitate occasionally brings up that truly privatized streets could be converted to other uses. I think it would be inevitable that on streets with many shops and cafes, such as Montague Street in Brooklyn, the shops may get [...] June 21st, 2008 | Tags: BID, brooklyn, montague street, pedestrians, private streets | Category: privatization | 10 comments |
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