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A lot of words have been written about how horribly FRA safety regulations cripple US main line passenger railway budgets (and you should read them!), but it’s also important to remember that even as a safety regulator, the FRA fails. You have to see it to believe it:
… Continue reading at [...] November 7th, 2011 | Tags: energy, regulation | Category: Autos, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Green Tech, Innovation & Science, Intelligent Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Travel, Vehicles, video | Comments are closed |  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 viewI came across this video interview of economist Sandy Ikeda by the Mackinac Center. Sandy currently blogs at thinkmarkets and has contributed guest posts to Market Urbanism. I thought Sandy did a great job discussing many of the topics we cover in this site. Sandy is particularly insightful when it comes to the “dynamics [...] December 13th, 2009 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, automobile, highways, Intervention, planning, smart growth | Category: Economics, planning, video, zoning | 24 comments | printable viewMathieu 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: planning, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, video | 12 comments | printable viewAnts are a lot like humans in some ways. Look what ants can achieve without any top down management: [hat tip: Cafe Hayek] February 2nd, 2009 | Tags: ant cities, ants, cities, planning | Category: planning, video | Leave a comment | 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 decisions. [...] January 20th, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, Jane Jacobs, video | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning, video | 16 comments | printable viewApparently, IBM helped implement a congestion pricing solution in Stockholm, Sweden. Could commercials like this help break down aversion to market-based solutions? [hat tip: The Overhead Wire] January 18th, 2009 | Tags: congestion pricing, ibm, stockholm | Category: Transportation, video | Leave a comment | printable view |
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In Defense Of Land Reclamation: It Ain’t All Palm Islands!
Earlier today Urban Photo Blog tweeted earlier today a link to an article about Hong Kong’s latest land reclamation project, with an obviously sarcastic “because it worked so well in Dubai!” tacked on at the end. Not to pick on Urban Photo Blog – actually, his Twitter account is definitely one of the best I follow [...]