Brian Phillips at Live Oaks contacted me regarding the recent post by Stephen Smith on planning in Houston. Brian is a long time opponent of land use restrictions and defender of property rights in Houston. Brian has a different point of view on the subject, and has written a post on his [...]
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December 29th, 2008 | Tags: developer, development, Houston, libertarian, planning, property rights, regulation, Stephen Smith, Urban Legends, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 6 comments |  printable viewRecently, I came accross an article by Charles Johnson, who blogs at Rad Geek. The article had linked to a Market Urbanism post about how user fees and gas taxes fall well short of funding road use in the US. Charles’ article further debunks the Urbanism Legend asserted by free-market imposters that a free-market [...] December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Economics, eminent domain, gasoline, highways, infrastructure, Interstate Highway System, libertarian, privatization | Category: privatization, Transportation | 6 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith It seems to be an article of faith among many land use commentators – both coming from the pro- and anti-planning positions – that Houston is a fundamentally unplanned city, and that whatever is built there is the manifest destiny of the free market in action. But is this true? Did [...] December 10th, 2008 | Tags: Dr. Shoup, Houston, parking, sprawl, Stephen Smith | Category: planning, sprawl, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | 18 comments | printable viewThis morning, as I stepped to the stairway that brings me into Brooklyn’s 86th street subway station on the R line, I was greeted by two MTA employees who handed me MTA’s ‘Rider Report Card’ to fill out and mail in. As I started down the steps, I noticed something different than the usual [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: incentives, maintenance, MTA, nyc, subway, transit | Category: corruption, Transportation | Leave a comment | printable viewBrendan Crain at Where tipped me off to a great post by Ryan Avent at The Bellows. Here’s a little snippet of Shortage: For whatever reason, we’re not built to naturally internalize negative externalities. When riding on a crowded highway, no one (no non-economist, at any rate) curses the government for not making the [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: anti-market bias, Chicago, government, highways, Matthew Yglesias, parking, Shortages, traffic | Category: Economics, parking, Transportation | Leave a comment | printable viewThis post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) Last week President-elect Obama announced some details [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: Barack Obama, carbon, Henry Hazlitt, infrastructure, Market, stimulus, subsidization, Urbanism | Category: Environment, sprawl, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends | 18 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith The Weekly Standard has a comprehensive and compelling piece of investigative reporting on Columbia University’s attempt to acquire 17 acres in the heart of the Manhattanville section, north of its Morningside campus. The tale is a classic example of eminent domain abuse – the university worked hand-in-glove with the government to [...] December 4th, 2008 | Tags: blight, eminent domain, Euclid, Kelo, nyc, Stephen Smith | Category: corruption | 3 comments | printable viewOf course, Chicago is just privatizing the revenue from meters, not the actual parking spaces. Plus, the city will regulate rate increases, but it’s a step in the right direction. (right?) For today’s politicians, this is a great way to get windfalls of money today for revenues of future generations in order to [...] December 2nd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, parking, parking meters, privatization | Category: privatization, video | 25 comments | printable view |
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