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This 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 viewSandy Ikeda posted an abstract for a short essay he is contributing to a Festschrift honoring Jane Jacobs. He quite eloquently describes the nature of the living city: A city is not a man-made thing. Rather, it emerges from the actions of its inhabitants, who interact in unpredictable yet orderly ways. Under [...] April 7th, 2009 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, emergence, Jane Jacobs | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs | Leave a comment |
printable viewMathieu Helie has been writing at a blog he calls Emergent Urbanism. His most recent post is the first part of a series that will be published as an entire article entitled “The Principles of Emergent Urbanism” at International Journal of Architectural Research. This first part of the series, and hopefully the [...] March 31st, 2009 | Tags: emergent urbanism, Hayek, Jane Jacobs, spontaneous order | Category: Economics, history, Jane Jacobs | 16 comments |
printable viewThomas Schmidt wrote a great article for LewRockwell.com that covers a lot of urbanist ground, with some help from a broad selection of Jane Jacobs’ work. Here’s a snippet: Though you might blame any number of obvious villains and historical processes for this, the name Ebenezer Howard would probably not come to mind. [...] March 17th, 2009 | Tags: Euclid, history, Jane Jacobs, Thomas Schmidt, zoning | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning, zoning | 6 comments |
printable viewOver at Where, Dan Lorentz identified the top 5 books that he considers “the basics of urbanism”, as well as a “Tall Stack of Other Suggestions”: Based on that library visit, on posted comments from readers, on behind-the-scenes advice from Where contributors and my interpretation—from my own very amateurish (and American) perspective—of what [...] March 9th, 2009 | Tags: books, Jane Jacobs | Category: Jane Jacobs, Uncategorized | 8 comments |
printable viewBill Hudnut at the Urban Land Institute wrote a post that attracted some attention at Austin Contrarian and Overhead Wire. Hudnut discusses a different approach to taxing land: How about restructuring the property tax across America to install a two-tiered system? More tax on those horizontal pieces of empty land and asphalt, less [...] January 22nd, 2009 | Tags: density, development, Jane Jacobs, NIMBY, parking, sprawl | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning | 30 comments |
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27 Mises Street I recently googled upon a post at a blog called “Rub-a-Dub” that mentioned a land development project in Mount Pleasant, SC called I’On. I imagine the developers of the I’On “Traditional Neighborhood Development” (TND) community are sympathetic with Market Urbanism, as they named streets [...] January 21st, 2009 | Tags: development, Free-market, I'On, Jane Jacobs, Ludwig Von Mises, Mount Pleasant, New Urbanism, NIMBY, smart growth, Sout Carolina, TND, walkability, zoning | Category: Economics, housing, Jane Jacobs, zoning | 6 comments |
printable viewWithout getting too political on inauguration day, I’d like to share a positive video featuring our new President that urbanists should appreciate, regardless of political persuasion: Let’s hope President Obama keeps Jane Jacobs’ lessons of spontaneous order from The Death and Life of Great American Cities in mind as he makes economic [...] January 20th, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, Jane Jacobs, video | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning, video | 16 comments |
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