I’m reviewing The Heights: Anatomy of the Skyscraper by Kate Ascher as part of a TLC Book Tour. Other bloggers are also reviewing the book, and you can find links to their reviews here. I received a complimentary copy of the book, and I’d like to send it to a reader if anyone is interested in reading [...]
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New York City’s Department of City Planning claims that the original 1916 zoning code allowed enough building stock growth to accomodate as many as 55 million people in the city. Readers can probably guess that today’s code is a bit less liberal, but Columbia University’s Center for Urban Real Estate put some numbers on it for the Times: [...] New York City’s subway lines – the engines that keep the city’s real estate market moving – are notoriously expensive to build. Tunneling projects in New York routinely clock in at five to ten times the cost of their Asian and European counterparts, putting the city’s measly 20-30% aboveground union construction premiums to shame. New [...] November 29th, 2011 | Tags: energy, real estate, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Vehicles | Comments are closed |  printable viewThis series looks at some of the ways that people organize themselves to live alongside each other in cities. Part 1 looks at inherent problems with top-down planning, and Part 2 looks at the costs of local governments sanctioning collective choice. From this negative start, I’d like to turn to some of the advantages [...] November 28th, 2011 | Category: Economics, Human Ingenuity, Uncategorized | 2 comments | printable viewnycsubway.org has an amazing trove of transit history, and I just got done reading “The Impact of the IRT on New York City” by Clifton Hood, on the effects of New York‘s first subway rapid transit line, first opened in 1904. There’s so much in it to recommend, but one of the interesting themes is [...] November 25th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, real estate | Category: Autos, byline=Stephen Smith, Culture & Books, Economics, Law, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design | Comments are closed | printable view1. A reader from Vancouver wrote in to let Stephen and me know about a proposed policy to tax foreign investors at a higher rate than local property owners. Support for this policy is growing among residents, and with a mayoral election this Saturday, some are hoping to get candidates to endorse the policy [...] November 18th, 2011 | Category: infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Uncategorized, zoning | One comment | printable viewSeveral bloggers have already provided reviews of The Gated City by Ryan Avent, including Aaron Renn at The Urbanophile, Rob Pitingol at Greater Greater Washington, and Lloyd Alter at Tree Hugger. I’ve finally had a chance to read it and would thoroughly recommend it. I often support increased density on the grounds that this is [...] November 16th, 2011 | Category: Culture & Books, D.C., housing, Policy | 6 comments | printable view |
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I'On Village, South Carolina
About three years ago Adam wrote about the the story of I’On Village, a New Urbanist development build about a decade ago five miles outside of Charleston, and the difficulties that Vince Graham faced trying to build it. For one, the project had to be scaled down in some [...]