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In his last two urbanism-related posts, Matthew Yglesias makes great points only to dissolve them in a vat of unrelated statements posed as conclusions. His logical inconsistency seems to invalidate his otherwise pretty good blogging on urbanism. A couple days ago, Matthew blogged about regulation of neighborhood retail, quoting a DC blog: “In DC, [...] May 29th, 2009 | Tags: Matthew Yglesias, planning, Randal O'Toole, Transportation, zoning | Category: Free-market impostors, planning, Transportation, zoning | 16 comments |  printable viewWhile on the subject of Friedman, I’m happy to learn that Market Urbanism is on the blogroll at the new blog, Let A Thousand Nations Bloom, where Patri Friedman blogs with Johnathan Wolfe and Mike Gibson. May 21st, 2009 | Tags: milton friedman, patri friedman | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment | printable viewIn a post blogger Eric Orozco called, ‘forerunner candidate for “most incisive blog post” of the year,’ Daniel Nairn of Discovering Urbanism discussed the seemingly conflicted camps of libertarianism when it comes to Urbanism. His observations are based upon the comments in the Volokh article on planning and walkability linked in the previous post. [...] May 20th, 2009 | Tags: Ayn Rand, Frank Lloyd Wright, libertarian, milton friedman, Randal O'Toole | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, planning, sprawl | 6 comments | printable viewAt Volokh, Ilya Somin discusses a recent piece in the American Prospect (also linked from here) that favors “New Urbanism” to prevent “unwalkable” sprawl. Somin favors “voting with your feet” as the preferred method of satisfying location preferences. Unfortunately, voting options have been whittled down through government interventions: To the extent that we do [...] May 13th, 2009 | Tags: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning | Category: housing, planning, sprawl, zoning | 18 comments | printable viewThe Orange County Register’s Freedom Politics website (check out my rent control article FreePo published in March) features articles discussing two differing takes on road privatization from notable scholars Walter Block and Robert Poole. In Robert Poole’s article, he discusses the merits of the increasingly popular use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to fund [...] May 7th, 2009 | Tags: fascism, Private Roads, privatization, Public-Private Partnerships, Robert Poole, socialism, Walter Block | Category: corruption, Economics, infrastructure, privatization, Transportation | 10 comments | printable viewI’ve been meaning to address the public education system’s complex role in land use patterns, and found that Murray Rothbard does a better job in his 1973 manifesto, For a New Libertythan I ever could. In summary, locally-funded public education is an engine of geographical segregation, which encourages flight from urban areas, and was [...] May 4th, 2009 | Tags: affordability, education, exclusionary zoning, For a New Liberty, Murray Rothbard, property taxes, public education, schools, suburbs, zoning | Category: Economics, housing, Rothbard The Urbanist, sprawl, zoning | 27 comments | printable view |
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