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Mathieu Helie at Emergent Urbanism posted a link to a interesting game created at the University of Minnesota. Mathieu explains it better than I can: The game begins in the Stalinian Central Bureau of Traffic Control, where a wrinkly old man pulls you out of your job at the mail room to come save [...] August 14th, 2009 | Tags: cambodia, congestion, Gridlock, planning, roads, safety, signals, streets, traffic, Transportation | Category: Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, planning, video | Comments |
 printable viewPlease don’t misread the title. Herbert Hoover is not a man I consider a “Legend” – quite the contrary. I use the words “Urbanism Legend” in the context of the series of posts intended to dispel popular myths as they relate to urbanism. Myths and fallacies about Herbert Hoover are abundant these days as the media [...] February 12th, 2009 | Tags: Euclidean, great depression, Herbert Hoover, highways, planning, progressivism, property rights, zoning | Category: Urban[ism] Legends, history, planning, zoning | Comments |
printable viewAs Washington debates how many hundreds-of-billions of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus will go towards infrastructure or to other spending/tax cut schemes, pundits claim that spending billions on “shovel ready” public works projects can effectively create jobs that will lead to recovery. As readers probably know, I am skeptical that the anticipated spending could be activated [...] January 12th, 2009 | Tags: boondoggles, budgets, construction, government, highways, infrastructure, paul krugman, roads, stimulus, Transportation, tyler cowen | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, corruption | Comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith It seems to be an article of faith among many land use commentators – both coming from the pro- and anti-planning positions – that Houston is a fundamentally unplanned city, and that whatever is built there is the manifest destiny of the free market in action. But is this true? Did [...] December 10th, 2008 | Tags: Dr. Shoup, Houston, parking, sprawl, Stephen Smith | Category: Urban[ism] Legends, planning, sprawl, zoning | Comments |
printable viewThis post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) Last week President-elect Obama announced some details of [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: Barack Obama, carbon, Henry Hazlitt, infrastructure, Market, stimulus, subsidization, Urbanism | Category: Environment, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, sprawl | Comments |
printable viewNo doubt, mass production of the automobile is one of the greatest innovations of all times. It has allowed for increased mobility of goods and people, which has greatly improved productivity and leisure. But, is subsidizing mobility at the expense of taxpayers taking things too far? In various blogs and forums, I frequently come across the [...] July 30th, 2008 | Tags: automobile, construction, DeLucchi, fuel, gas, infrastructure, mobility, roads, socialism, tax, tolls | Category: Economics, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, featured, infrastructure | Comments |
printable viewThis is a topic I want to cover more thoroughly, but for now I present a one hour documentary video on green buildings for you leisurely viewing. I came across the snagfilms website from a recent Wall Street Journal article. Most of the documentary videos lean towards “progressive” tastes, but hopefully they’ll add [...] July 20th, 2008 | Tags: density, documentary, Environment, Friedman, government, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Environment, Urban[ism] Legends, video | Comments |
printable viewThis post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) We’ve all heard it said by some NIMBY [...] July 7th, 2008 | Tags: developer, development, Economics, Free-market, greed, Henry Hazlitt, neighorhood, NIMBY, Urban[ism] Legends | Category: Economics, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | Comments |
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