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Brendan Crain at Where tipped me off to a great post by Ryan Avent at The Bellows. Here’s a little snippet of Shortage: For whatever reason, we’re not built to naturally internalize negative externalities. When riding on a crowded highway, no one (no non-economist, at any rate) curses the government for not making the road [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: anti-market bias, Chicago, government, highways, Matthew Yglesias, parking, Shortages, traffic | Category: Economics, Transportation, parking | Comments |
 printable viewOf course, Chicago is just privatizing the revenue from meters, not the actual parking spaces. Plus, the city will regulate rate increases, but it’s a step in the right direction. (right?) For today’s politicians, this is a great way to get windfalls of money today for revenues of future generations in order [...] December 2nd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, parking, parking meters, privatization | Category: privatization, video | Comments |
printable viewCook Co. sheriff won’t evict in foreclosures from Associated Press Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says he’s ordered his deputies to stop taking part in evictions of properties that have been foreclosed upon. Dart says the change goes into effect Thursday. He says the decision comes because many of those being evicted are people who’ve been faithfully [...] October 8th, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, eviction, foreclosures | Category: housing | Comments |
printable viewaffordability in the LA area affordability in New York City Play with the HUD-Brookings Institution’s new index maps here: The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, developed by CNT and its collaborative partners, the Center for Transit Oriented Development (CTOD), is an innovative tool that measures the true affordability of housing. Planners, lenders, and most consumers traditionally [...] August 14th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, Chicago, CNT, development, housing, HUD-Brookings, nyc, Peter Gordon, transit | Category: Economics, housing | Comments |
printable viewI’m a little slow picking up on this one, but the Wall Street Journal recently interviewed Harvard Urban Economist, Ed Glaeser. Here are some excerpts from State of the City: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: What effect will higher gasoline prices have on urban planning in the U.S.? MR. GLAESER: I would be very surprised to see [...] August 11th, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, Ed Glaeser, housing, New York City | Category: Economics, housing | Comments |
printable viewI enjoyed this short video that compares Chicago’s Lincoln Square, where I have lived and Buffalo Grove, which is a suburb similar to where I grew up. The video was produced by CEOs for Cities, a Chicago based organization that advocates for cities. Their website gives this description: A new analysis shows that high gas prices [...] July 22nd, 2008 | Tags: buffalo grove, Chicago, congestion, lincoln square, sprawl | Category: sprawl, video | Comments |
printable viewA recent Wall Street Journal blog post refers to a website called Walk Score. Walk Score will let you know the walkability of a neighborhood based on the address you type in. The site also features ranking of cities and neighborhoods. Here are the city rankings: July 19th, 2008 | Tags: Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee, neighborhood, new york, nyc, walkability | Category: sprawl | Comments |
printable viewphoto by flickr user mandus I recently came across a great blog, Hyde Park Urbanist, which focuses on urbanism in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Hyde Park is located along Lake Michigan on the South Side and is the home of The University of Chicago as well as Frank LLoyd Wright’s famous Robie House [...] July 3rd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, hyde park, planning, urban renewal, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | Comments |
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