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While I sympathize with the theme and agree with regards to roadway spending and “conservative” hypocrisy, a recent article in the progressive The American Prospect takes a narrow-minded view of politics and urbanism, while throwing around broad generalizations about evolution and global warming to support their assertions: The Conservative Case for Urbanism In [...] September 12th, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, density, development, infrastructure, Republican, sprawl, transit, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, planning, privatization, Transportation | 8 comments |
 printable view“] My Other Bike is a Public Transportation System by Greg Beato at Reason.com: A bike delivers a strong sense of autonomy, too—stronger even than a car in many ways. It doesn’t, for example, require a license, registration, insurance. You aren’t beholden to routes or schedules. You go where you want, when you [...] September 11th, 2008 | Tags: bicycles, City, DC SmartBike, reason, Transportation | Category: Environment, Transportation | 6 comments |
printable viewMatthew Yglesias – Straight Talk on Gasoline on drilling and how conservative deviation from free-market principles has hurt the environment: Meanwhile, take something like the accessory dwellings issue. Here you have a bunch of regulations that make it illegal for people to live more densely. Illegal, in other words, to build the kind [...] July 23rd, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, Environment, gasoline, parking, privilege, socialism, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, zoning | 2 comments |
printable viewThis is a topic I want to cover more thoroughly, but for now I present a one hour documentary video on green buildings for you leisurely viewing. I came across the snagfilms website from a recent Wall Street Journal article. Most of the documentary videos lean towards “progressive” tastes, but hopefully they’ll [...] July 20th, 2008 | Tags: density, documentary, Environment, Friedman, government, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Environment, Urban[ism] Legends, video | 12 comments |
printable viewThere is little reliable research into the economic returns of high-performance (green) features of buildings, but Professor John Quigley plans to release his groundbreaking research on the subject this Fall. I am very excited to learn this news, and will certainly look forward to reviewing the results. Especially if implementation could improve my [...] July 10th, 2008 | Tags: development, energy, Environmental, green, Haas, John Quigley, leed, research | Category: Economics, Environment | 2 comments |
printable viewMatthew Yglesias just posted a thought referring to a recent NY Magazine article about skyfarming: Should we build agricultural skyscrapers in-or-near our major cities? It’s certainly a cool idea. I think I’m going to put the notion that this is actually environmentally sound and feasible in my “too good to check” file. More [...] May 19th, 2008 | Tags: construction, energy, farming, green roofs, skyscrapers, Urban Farming, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment | 9 comments |
printable viewNIMBYism and exclusionary zoning has helped “preserve the character” of desirable urban areas by driving out the economically unfortunate. Green Disparate Impact April 13th, 2008 | Tags: Economics, NIMBY, race issues, zoning | Category: Environment, planning, zoning | Leave a comment |
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