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Mathieu Helie has been writing at a blog he calls Emergent Urbanism. His most recent post is the first part of a series that will be published as an entire article entitled “The Principles of Emergent Urbanism” at International Journal of Architectural Research. This first part of the series, and hopefully the entire [...] March 31st, 2009 | Tags: emergent urbanism, Hayek, Jane Jacobs, spontaneous order | Category: Economics, history, Jane Jacobs | 16 comments |  printable view(Map of Robert Moses’ unbuilt proposals via “vanshnookenraggen.”) Sandy Ikeda blogs: If Moses were around today I don’t think he’d waste any time getting every major project he could think of “shovel ready” for hundreds of billions of stimulus money. While he’s no longer with us, I do fear that, with the [...] March 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, infrastructure, nyc, robert moses, stimulus | Category: corruption, history, infrastructure | 10 comments | printable viewOriginally published at Freedom Politics: In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists. Economists don’t spend much time debating the issues they agree on, and to them, rent control is about as dead an issue as [...] March 19th, 2009 | Tags: Assar Lindbeck, housing, rent control | Category: housing, rent control | 9 comments | printable viewThomas Schmidt wrote a great article for LewRockwell.com that covers a lot of urbanist ground, with some help from a broad selection of Jane Jacobs’ work. Here’s a snippet: Though you might blame any number of obvious villains and historical processes for this, the name Ebenezer Howard would probably not come to mind. Howard [...] March 17th, 2009 | Tags: Euclid, history, Jane Jacobs, Thomas Schmidt, zoning | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning, zoning | 6 comments | printable view
Some other things to ponder for the next time you are sitting on a congested highway… When I talk to people about tolling roads, most people immediately reject the idea entirely. I like to ask them to think about it next time they are in a traffic jam. Hey, if you sit in [...] March 16th, 2009 | Tags: congestion, congestion pricing, highways, John Stossel, Private Roads, privatization | Category: privatization, Transportation | 17 comments | printable viewOver at Where, Dan Lorentz identified the top 5 books that he considers “the basics of urbanism”, as well as a “Tall Stack of Other Suggestions”: Based on that library visit, on posted comments from readers, on behind-the-scenes advice from Where contributors and my interpretation—from my own very amateurish (and American) perspective—of what counts [...] March 9th, 2009 | Tags: books, Jane Jacobs | Category: Jane Jacobs, Uncategorized | 8 comments | printable viewThe Orange County Register’s new site, Freedom Politics just posted an article I wrote for them on rent control. Here’s a snippet: In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists. Economists don’t spend much time [...] March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: housing, housing bubble, rent control, Wendell Cox | Category: Economics, housing, rent control | Leave a comment | printable viewJim Powell’s latest article at Reason discusses the Tennessee Valley Authority, FDR’s most ambitious infrastructure program: It was heralded as a program to build dams that would control floods, facilitate navigation, lift people out of poverty, and help America recover from the Great Depression. Yet the reality is that the TVA probably flooded more [...] March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: infrastructure, reason, Roosevelt, TVA | Category: Economics, infrastructure | 6 comments | printable view |
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