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by Stephen Smith Matt Yglesias points to an article about Toronto’s new zoning code. The story is short on details, although the lowering of parking minimums near transit and overall simplification of the code seem like appealing features to Market Urbanists. I did, however, find a blog post from last year about the proposed [...] August 27th, 2010 | Tags: CATO, New Urbanism, parking, Randal O'Toole, reason, Stephen Smith, Toronto, zoning | Category: zoning | 2 comments |  printable viewby Stephen Smith At the risk of beating the parking theme deader than the Ground Zero Mosque, here are some recent parking-related stories published around the world: The NYC DOT’s Park Smart program has been called a success in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, and officials are considering making the program permanent and [...] by Stephen Smith Among urban planners, libertarianism gets a pretty bad rap. Melissa Lafsky at the Infrastructurist goes so far as to call libertarianism “an enemy of infrastructure,” and dismisses entirely the idea that private industry can build infrastructure with a single hyperlink – to a poorly-written article on New Zealand’s economy written over a [...] August 25th, 2010 | Tags: libertarianism, reason, Stephen Smith | Category: Economics, infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation | 26 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith Donald Shoup and his arguments about free and underpriced parking have been getting quite a bit of press recently, and it looks like Shoup’s hometown of Los Angeles has surpassed San Francisco (with its SFpark initiative) as the largest city in America to adopt some of his proposals: The yearlong ExpressPark [...] August 24th, 2010 | Tags: Dr. Shoup, LA, parking, Stephen Smith | Category: parking, Transportation | Leave a comment | printable viewby Stephen Smith In general, I think of Manhattan below Central Park as perhaps the freest place in America in terms of land use restrictions. There are no minimum parking regulations, zoning variances are relatively easy to get, and FAR restrictions are relatively generous. Historical preservation designations sometimes limit redevelopment, but other than that, [...] August 24th, 2010 | Tags: NIMBY, nyc, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 10 comments | printable viewBack a couple years ago, I noted an Econtalk podcast with Russell Roberts and Duke University Professor Mike Munger on the private bus system in Santiago, Chile. This week’s episode starts with Munger’s update on the Santiago transportation system after visiting for three weeks and spending a lot of time traveling the city’s buses and [...] August 24th, 2010 | Tags: buses, Economics, econtalk, munger, private transit, public transit, Russell Roberts, santiago, traffic, transit | Category: Economics, privatization, Transportation | Leave a comment | printable viewby Stephen Smith Although we at Market Urbanism are big fans of Donald Shoup’s work on parking minimums, we have to admit that rigorous econometric evidence that parking minimums mandate more parking than the market would otherwise supply has been a bit lacking. Randal O’Toole at The Antiplanner quite rightly asks to see empirical [...] August 23rd, 2010 | Tags: parking, Stephen Smith, tyler cowen | Category: parking, sprawl | 8 comments | printable viewSandy Ikeda’s latest article at FEE’s “The Freeman” is a great summary of the libertarian sprawl debate. There has been a lot of Internet chatter lately about what libertarians ought to think about urban sprawl and its causes, including pieces by Kevin Carson, Austin Bramwell, Randal O’Toole, and Matthew Yglesias. The title of Ben [...] August 17th, 2010 | Tags: sprawl, zoning | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, parking, planning, sprawl, Transportation, zoning | 11 comments | printable view |
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