This semester I took an econometrics class because I got an MA with the bare minimum of quantitative classes. For the class, I wrote a paper asking the question, “Are consumers willing to pay a premium to live in dense urban areas?” It’s easy to see that urban density is correlated with higher housing prices, [...]
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May 17th, 2012 | Category: Economics, Lifestyle, Places & Spaces, planning | 16 comments |  printable viewFor readers in the DC area, the movie Battle for Brooklyn is playing at the Dome Theater in Arlington this weekend. The film explores eminent domain in the Forest City Ratner development at Atlantic Yards. It will be playing Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with a Q&A with the directors Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley after [...] January 10th, 2012 | Category: Arts & Entertainment, Lifestyle, Washington D.C. | Leave a comment | printable viewI often hear from people who are defending Washington, D.C.’s height limit argue that the restriction gives the city a “European” feel. I disagree with this for a number of reasons – the city has much fewer historic downtown buildings, and the ones it does have are much younger than in the Old World….
October 18th, 2011 | Tags: london, Paris, real estate, regulation, skyscrapers, washington dc | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Investing, Lifestyle, Op/Ed, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design | Comments are closed | printable viewStephen’s post on alleged corruption at the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission reminded me of a great scene from The Bonfire of the Vanities that I wanted to share here. Tom Wolfe describes a scenario in which a black bishop wants to sell his church’s property in order to raise money for the [...] October 10th, 2011 | Category: corruption, Lifestyle, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, preservation | 3 comments | printable viewCalifornia Assembly Bill 710 was introduced to earlier this year to tackle the problem of municipalities requiring onerous amounts of parking for new development, widely recognized as one of the main impediments to transit-oriented development and infill growth. The bill would have capped city and county parking requirements in neighborhoods with good transit to one space [...] October 7th, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, California, New York City, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Lifestyle, Op/Ed, parking, Places & Spaces, Policy, zoning | Comments are closed | printable view |
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