Earlier today I read an article by Daniel Garst about Bejing’s awkward population distribution that reminded me of a journal article about the general shape of socialist cities that I read a while back. Garst talks about Beijing being a “circus tent” when it comes to density, with population density increasing as you [...]
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October 19th, 2010 | Tags: Beijing, density, Moscow, Stephen Smith | Category: Economics, housing, planning, zoning | 10 comments |
 printable viewThe New York Times has an interesting article about a Justice Department probe into Darien, CT’s local inclusionary zoning rules. Inclusionary zoning means essentially that multi-unit developments have to offer a portion of the project as “affordable housing,” which invariably means charging below-market rents. We here at Market Urbanism oppose it because it [...] October 13th, 2010 | Tags: Connecticut, inclusionary zoning, race issues, Stephen Smith | Category: housing, zoning | 12 comments |
printable viewThis 5th installment of the Rothbard Series dovetails well with the most recent post on segregation by guest blogger, Stephen Smith, as well as a post back in July over at Austin Contrarian. If you haven’t kept up with our discussion, Murray Rothbard’s classic For A New Liberty can be downloaded free [...] August 25th, 2009 | Tags: discrimination, diversity, For a New Liberty, Free-market, Jane Jacobs, Murray Rothbard, segregation, street cars | Category: housing, Jane Jacobs, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist | 11 comments |
printable viewAt Volokh, Ilya Somin discusses a recent piece in the American Prospect (also linked from here) that favors “New Urbanism” to prevent “unwalkable” sprawl. Somin favors “voting with your feet” as the preferred method of satisfying location preferences. Unfortunately, voting options have been whittled down through government interventions: To the extent that we [...] May 13th, 2009 | Tags: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning | Category: housing, planning, sprawl, zoning | 18 comments |
printable viewI’ve been meaning to address the public education system’s complex role in land use patterns, and found that Murray Rothbard does a better job in his 1973 manifesto, For a New Libertythan I ever could. In summary, locally-funded public education is an engine of geographical segregation, which encourages flight from urban areas, and [...] May 4th, 2009 | Tags: affordability, education, exclusionary zoning, For a New Liberty, Murray Rothbard, property taxes, public education, schools, suburbs, zoning | Category: Economics, housing, Rothbard The Urbanist, sprawl, zoning | 27 comments |
printable viewOriginally published at Freedom Politics: In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists. Economists don’t spend much time debating the issues they agree on, and to them, rent control is about as dead an issue [...] March 19th, 2009 | Tags: Assar Lindbeck, housing, rent control | Category: housing, rent control | 9 comments |
printable viewThe Orange County Register’s new site, Freedom Politics just posted an article I wrote for them on rent control. Here’s a snippet: In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists. Economists don’t spend much [...] March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: housing, housing bubble, rent control, Wendell Cox | Category: Economics, housing, rent control | Leave a comment |
printable viewIn an act of pure legislative idiocy in the face of overwhelming consensus among economists against rent control, the New York State Assembly started the ball rolling to strengthen rent regulation. NY Times: The Democratic-led Assembly passed a broad package of legislation designed to restrain increases on rent-regulated apartments statewide. The legislation would [...] February 4th, 2009 | Tags: apartments, Economics, landlord, mobility, nyc, rent control, rent regulation | Category: Economics, housing, rent control | 12 comments |
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