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by Sandy Ikeda The other day I was lecturing to my students about externalities and the Coase Theorem. One of the examples I used came directly from the our textbook – Heyne, Boettke, & Prychitko’s The Economic Way of Thinking. It asks what would happen if you tried to declare a large tree in [...] November 29th, 2008 | Tags: coase theorem, demolition, externalities, historic preservation, Landmarks, nyc | Category: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Economics, Environment, preservation | 3 comments |  printable viewWhile well intentioned, like many progressive interventions of the eary 1900s, zoning has contributed to sprawl (which has begun to be demonized by progressives over the recent decades) and served to inhibit the vitality and diversity of urban neighborhoods. The triumph of the core philosophy behind Euclid vs. Ambler later enabled destructive urban renewal [...] November 28th, 2008 | Tags: Euclid, Euclidean, Kelo, NIMBY, progressivism, sprawl, zoning | Category: sprawl, zoning | 3 comments | printable viewI related to this particular post by Michael Lewyn at Planetizen, Why I fight: Occasionally, someone familiar with my scholarship asks me: why do you care about walkability and sprawl and cities? Why is this cause more important to you than twenty other worthy causes you might be involved in? The answer: Freedom. Now, [...] November 25th, 2008 | Tags: freedom, Michael Lewyn, mobility, Planetizen, sprawl, suburbia, Urbanism, walkability | Category: sprawl | 32 comments | printable viewMarket Urbanism readers may not have noticed, but not too long ago I added a feature to the sidebars labeled “Check these out.” This is a feed from the Market Urbanism del.icio.us bookmarks. I added this feature as a timesaving alternative to creating a new post every time I find a relevant article, leaving [...] November 22nd, 2008 | Tags: social bookmarking | Category: Uncategorized | 20 comments | printable viewDaniel Nairn at Discovering Urbanism brings up a great point about cul-de-sacs. Are they public goods, or truly unnecessary “socialism in its most extreme form”? Take the standard cul-de-sac that serves a handful of households. The purpose of this design is to exclude the general public from passing through while serving the automotive needs [...] November 18th, 2008 | Tags: cul-de-sac, Daniel Nairn, DOT, driveway, network, socialism, Transportation, Urbanism, Virginia | Category: privatization, Transportation | 28 comments | printable viewAlex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution – Now is the Time for the Buffalo Commons: The Federal Government owns more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Alaska and it owns nearly half of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming. See the map for more. It is time for a sale. Selling even [...] November 13th, 2008 | Tags: federal, public land | Category: Environment, privatization | 7 comments | printable viewCongestion pricing schemes, touted as environmentally-responsible at the time of $4 gas, were defeated in New York City last Spring. However, as the market turmoil threatens to wreak havoc on tax revenues, fiscal necessity has lured New York State and New York City politicians to re-examine the political viability of charging [...] November 13th, 2008 | Tags: bridges, congestion pricing, history, nyc, privatization, tolls | Category: privatization, Transportation | Leave a comment | printable viewMatt Yglesias is one of the best mainstream bloggers on land use/transportation that I know of. As one blogger (who I don’t recall right now) once said, his urban planning and transportation posts could be blogs in their own right. However, it’s puzzling that in an article for Cato Unbound, he comes up with [...] November 12th, 2008 | Tags: free market urbanism, private transit, public transit, Randal O'Toole, Stephen Smith | Category: Free-market impostors, Transportation, zoning | 17 comments | printable view |
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