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In my last post about the geometry of cities and the importance of downtowns, it looks like I understated the extent to which Downtown Brooklyn was built up during New York’s market-driven boom during the turn-of-the-century. Quoteth commenter Alon Levy: I think you are essentially correct, but there’s one historical fact you get [...] February 25th, 2011 | Tags: dc, density, nyc | Category: Uncategorized | 10 comments |
 printable viewMatt Yglesias and Lydia DePillis have been having an interesting discussion about the DC commercial real estate market that I have some thoughts on, so I thought I’d weigh in. I apologize for the length of this post, but I think it’s a really important point that shouldn’t be underestimated. Matt started by stating [...] February 25th, 2011 | Tags: dc, density, nyc, Philadelphia | Category: Uncategorized | 22 comments |
printable viewEd Glaeser has a sprawling feature story in The Atlantic about skyscrapers that’s full of urbanist history and themes that I’ve been meaning to blog about for a few days now. It’s a great article, with a lot of New York history in it, but I wanted to highlight a few bits. The part I liked [...] February 12th, 2011 | Tags: density, Ed Glaeser, skyscrapers, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 13 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 viewI don’t want to give anyone the impression that I (or Robert Fogelson) thinks that the threat of nuclear war in the 1950s was anything but a minor footnote in the history of American decentralization, but this bit from Fogelson’s Downtown (I finally finished! – review forthcoming) caught my eye: The belief that [...] January 7th, 2011 | Tags: density, New Urbanism, terrorism | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments |
printable viewExpect a lot more of these… 1. Beijing tries to relieve congestion by…building a quarter-million parking new spaces and 125 miles of new downtown streets?! But don’t worry – bike sharing! 2. Seattle inches closer to a Shoupian on-street parking policy, and Austin ponders charging for on-street parking after dark and on Saturdays. [...] January 7th, 2011 | Tags: Austin, China, congestion pricing, dc, density, london, nyc, parking, seattle, terrorism | Category: Uncategorized | One comment |
printable viewAbout a month ago I put a post where I discussed how overzealous historical preservationists were halting necessary incremental development, and in the long run guaranteeing that the buildings will have to be completely razed if cities are ever to regain a modicum of economic rationality. I mentioned the case of a building [...] January 6th, 2011 | Tags: density, nyc, preservation | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments |
printable viewFor a libertarian urbanist blogger, I’ve always felt kind of embarrassed by my lack of knowledge about East Asian transit, considering that it’s the only place left on earth with a thriving competitive private transportation market (they even have profitable monorails!). I’ve heard good things about South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong, but [...] December 22nd, 2010 | Tags: density, japan, transit | Category: Uncategorized | 19 comments |
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