Over at Pedestrian Observations, Alon Levy has a typically well-written and researched post on the gentrification of poverty. He explores the well-researched trend that low-income Americans are increasingly moving to the suburbs as gentrification is driving up rents in inner cities. He hypothesizes … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2011
Cities, Zoning, and Industry
D.C.'s Uline Arena – once a trash transfer station, now an indoor parking lot American cities have been on the rebound for about two decades now, with once moribund residential and commercial neighborhoods springing back to life. … [Read more...]
Does Urban Growth Have to Mean Gentrification?
When libertarians (and liberals) argue that increasing the supply of urban housing will lower the price of urban housing, they’re drawing on some pretty basic and well-established economic concepts. And yet, the coexistence of gentrification and housing supply growth seem to put a lie to that theory … [Read more...]
Spreading ideas through the urban process
I’m at the Living Cities 20th Anniversary today, liveblogging on the discussions that panelists are having here. This post, a little out of the vein of the topics we typically talk about at Market Urbanism, originally appeared at Next American City.Steven Johnson and Paula Ellis, of the John S. … [Read more...]
Capital markets for urban entrepreneurs
I'm at the Living Cities 20th Anniversary today, liveblogging on the discussions that panelists are having here. This post, a little out of the vein of the topics we typically talk about at Market Urbanism, originally appeared at Next American City.Patrick McCarthey of the Annie E. Casey … [Read more...]
Transit Oriented Development in Chevy Chase
In Chevy Chase, MD county planners have revised plans for the Chevy Chase Lake Sector from high rise, mixed-use development to low-rise, primarily residential buildings. The trigger to allow for higher-density development will be the arrival of the Purple Line, a proposed light rail that would … [Read more...]
New funding for roads in Georgia
The Georgia Department of Transportation recently approved $102 million in projects to improve the state's infrastructure. The department gave the go ahead on these projects as the state is in the midst of a debate over a new proposed one percent sales tax to help fund infrastructure.Highway … [Read more...]
Podcast with The Voluntary City
In July, Adam, Stephen, and I did a podcast with Jake from The Voluntary Life about the book The Voluntary City with Peter Gordon, one of the book's editors. We had an interesting discussion, including some debate about transportation funding and free market solutions for inner cities. The podcast … [Read more...]