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1) Nate Berg at The Atlantic Cities covers new research on the world’s earliest cities. The findings would make Jane Jacobs happy as researchers have uncovered evidence that the earliest urbanization was a case of spontaneous order. Their construction wasn’t directed by kings as some historians previously thought, but rather by bottom-up decision-making. 2) Alex Block [...] 1. 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 viewIn a post about the tendency for emergent urbanists to promote the idea of cities having a single equilibrium, Alon Levy recently wrote that collective choice is the best manner for determining urban form. Many urbanists accept that some of the top-down regulations that limit density or use are detrimental to cities, but they [...] October 25th, 2011 | Category: Economics, Human Ingenuity, Jane Jacobs, planning, Uncategorized | 7 comments | printable viewFrom the comments and emails I’ve gotten, there will be a pretty decent turnout of Market Urbanists at Sandy Ikeda’s Jane’s Walk on Sunday, “Eye’s on Brooklyn Heights.” Here are the details from the site; Date: Sunday May 8, 2011 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Meeting Place: The tour will meet at the steps of Brooklyn’s [...] May 5th, 2011 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Jane Jacobs | Category: Jane Jacobs | One comment | printable viewThe 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 term [...] 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 view“Houston has no zoning” is a very popular urban planning meme. It has its roots in Houston’s lacks one very specific kind of zoning: Euclidean separation of residential, commercial, and industrial uses. Euclidean zoning happens to be the one kind of planning that people easily understand (the whole meatpacking-plant-in-my-backyard fear), and so the usual [...] January 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Houston, Jane Jacobs | Category: Jane Jacobs, zoning | 7 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith Among urban planners, libertarianism gets a pretty bad rap. Melissa Lafsky at the Infrastructurist goes so far as to call libertarianism “an enemy of infrastructure,” and dismisses entirely the idea that private industry can build infrastructure with a single hyperlink – to a poorly-written article on New Zealand’s economy written over a [...] August 25th, 2010 | Tags: libertarianism, reason, Stephen Smith | Category: Economics, infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation | 26 comments | printable viewIn the comments of my most recent post, insightful commenter, OldUrbanism pointed out some items that need attention: The last two factors, legal costs associated with eminent domain and opportunity costs of land, are in fact often included in typical project cost estimates for both public and private projects. The former is fairly straightforward, [...] September 6th, 2009 | Tags: correction, Ed Glaeser, Jane Jacobs, reason, robert moses, Sam Staley | Category: infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation | One comment | printable view |
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