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by Stephen Smith New Jersey has always been an odd state – it’s the most densely populated of the fifty, and yet it lies just outside of the core of both of its metro areas (Philadelphia and New York). North Jersey does have a formidable number of mid-sized cities, but the biggest – [...] October 8th, 2010 | Tags: density, inclusionary zoning, New Jersey, Philadelphia, sprawl, Stephen Smith, transit | Category: Economics, sprawl | 8 comments |
 printable viewby Stephen Smith Although we at Market Urbanism are big fans of Donald Shoup’s work on parking minimums, we have to admit that rigorous econometric evidence that parking minimums mandate more parking than the market would otherwise supply has been a bit lacking. Randal O’Toole at The Antiplanner quite rightly asks to see [...] August 23rd, 2010 | Tags: parking, Stephen Smith, tyler cowen | Category: parking, sprawl | 8 comments |
printable viewSandy Ikeda’s latest article at FEE’s “The Freeman” is a great summary of the libertarian sprawl debate. There has been a lot of Internet chatter lately about what libertarians ought to think about urban sprawl and its causes, including pieces by Kevin Carson, Austin Bramwell, Randal O’Toole, and Matthew Yglesias. The title of [...] August 17th, 2010 | Tags: sprawl, zoning | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, parking, planning, sprawl, Transportation, zoning | 11 comments |
printable viewAt Streetsblog, Ryan Avent presented a scorching attack on the most notorious free-market impostor – Randal O’Toole: Taking Liberties With the Facts for his consistent hypocrisy: The Cato Institute’s Randal O’Toole gets under the skin of many of those interested in building a more rational and green metropolitan geography, but in many ways [...] June 4th, 2009 | Tags: gas tax, Highway, Randal O'Toole, subsidization, Transportation | Category: Free-market impostors, infrastructure, sprawl, Transportation | 65 comments |
printable viewIn a post blogger Eric Orozco called, ‘forerunner candidate for “most incisive blog post” of the year,’ Daniel Nairn of Discovering Urbanism discussed the seemingly conflicted camps of libertarianism when it comes to Urbanism. His observations are based upon the comments in the Volokh article on planning and walkability linked in the previous [...] May 20th, 2009 | Tags: Ayn Rand, Frank Lloyd Wright, libertarian, milton friedman, Randal O'Toole | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, planning, sprawl | 6 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 viewChris Bradford over at Austin Contrarian has been making some solid points in favor of congestion pricing. (here, here, here and here) Chris’s core argument in favor of congestion tolling is that: congestion pricing does more than relieve congestion. Congestion pricing tells us when a road needs more capacity. Additional capacity costs money, [...] April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Chris Bradford, congestion, congestion pricing, price signals, Private Roads, taffic flow, traffic, Transportation | Category: Economics, infrastructure, privatization, sprawl, Transportation | 28 comments |
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