Ken Burns’ new documentary Prohibition is excellent and highly recommended on its own merits, but urbanists should take special note of its urban themes. Cities have always been caricatured as centers of licentiousness, and the booming cities of turn-of-the-century America, teeming with poor Catholic immigrants, must have been terrifying to the established white Americans of the [...]
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October 12th, 2011 | Tags: real estate, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Culture & Books, drugs, Health, history, Investing, Op/Ed, Places & Spaces, Policy | Comments are closed |
 printable viewBecause Arlington County, VA is not home to many properties over 100 years old, planning officials have turned their historic preservation efforts to those properties they do have to preserve. The Sun Gazette reports: The first phase of the effort focused on only a very narrow slice of property types in Arlington: garden [...] The Ludwig von Mises Institute publishes a podcast performed by Jeff Riggenbach called “The Libertarian Tradition”, which discusses significant figures in the libertarian movement. The most recent edition is dedicated to Jane Jacobs, who’s ideas are highly regarded by many libertarians, despite the fact that she publicly distanced herself from being associated with the [...] April 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Brooklyn Heights, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Riggenbach, Ludwig Von Mises, Thomas Schmidt | Category: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Economics, history, Jane Jacobs | 2 comments |
printable view1. Systemic Failure calls out the Bay Area for giving an award to a textbook example of greenwashing in urbanism: Ironically, this project was recently promoted on the SF-Streetsblog website by “New Urbanist” developer Peter Calthrope for its “highest level” of green technology. What does it say for the Bay Area environmental community, [...] February 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, gas tax, history, LA | Category: Economics, history, Transportation | One comment |
printable viewMatt Yglesias, Kevin Drum, and Ryan Avent have been discussing the political economy of anti-density regulations, and I have a lot of comments, but I’m not sure I have the time (or, really, the patience) to air all of them. So, we’ll see how long this post gets. First of all, I think [...] February 2nd, 2011 | Tags: density, history | Category: history, planning, zoning | 23 comments |
printable viewI just started reading Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956by Michael R. Fein, and though I don’t have time to talk as much about it as I’d like, I will say that I’m only a couple pages in and I can already tell it’s going to be [...] January 25th, 2011 | Tags: gas tax, highways, history | Category: Economics, history, infrastructure, Transportation | 4 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Adam Martin at William Easterly’s development blog Aid Watch has a post up warning about the tendency among developing nations to adopt Western styles wholesale, even if such styles are not even efficient in their countries of origin. He posits this as a sort of developmental Whiggishness, and cites education [...] September 4th, 2010 | Tags: Bucharest, Garden City, Kuala Lumpur, Le Corbusier, Moscow, Pyongyang, Stephen Smith | Category: Economics, history, planning | 3 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Discovering Urbanism has a nice post up about early 20th century urban planner Charles Mulford Robinson and his planning textbook, and it includes the following corrective to the notion that zoning originated as a way to separate polluting industry from places of residence and commerce: There’s a common narrative about [...] August 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Charles Mulford Robinson, class conflict, planning, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: history, planning, zoning | One comment |
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