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Andrés Duany, leader of the New Urbanism movement, comes out against LEED standards: He said that high-density development in urban locations which entail less reliance on private cars should get a free pass on energy efficiency or energy generation standards. ”Don’t make apartment dwellers install solar power,” he said. ”They are doing their [...] February 7th, 2011 | Tags: Environment, New Urbanism | Category: Environment, planning | One comment |
 printable viewDavid Alpert at Greater Greater Washington has been on top of a story out of Virginia about a Virginia Tea Party group and its bizarre and seemingly anti-free market opposition to a state law forcing local governments to make room for dense growth. The law – which was passed a few years ago by [...] February 6th, 2011 | Tags: conservatism, dc, Virginia, zoning | Category: Free-market impostors, planning, zoning | 9 comments |
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 viewTurn the lights down, and the volume up. It’s time for some Market Urbanist media, courtesy of some future urbanist leaders who’s ideas may one day liberate our cities from yesterday’s authoritarian planners. [...] November 8th, 2010 | Tags: Dynamic Urban Planning, Gonzalo Melian, planning, University Francisci Marroqui, Urban Planning, video | Category: Economics, planning, video, zoning | Leave a comment |
printable viewEarlier 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 [...] October 19th, 2010 | Tags: Beijing, density, Moscow, Stephen Smith | Category: Economics, housing, planning, zoning | 10 comments |
printable viewBenjamin Hemric left an interesting comment about my remark about NYU’s expansion plans in Greenwich Village. First of all, I should admit that I was lazy and got NYU’s plans totally wrong – they are going to add towers to the three that I. M. Pei already built, not tear them down, and [...] October 7th, 2010 | Tags: density, nyc, Stephen Smith | Category: planning | Leave a comment |
printable viewSomething that always annoyed me about discussions of the state of Manhattanville and Columbia’s blight study is the fact that they usually leave out restrictive zoning as the original sin. We’re certainly no fans of eminent domain or Columbia’s plans for the West Harlem neighborhood, and while people are right to point out [...] October 6th, 2010 | Tags: nyc, parking, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 2 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 |
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