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Bill Hudnut at the Urban Land Institute wrote a post that attracted some attention at Austin Contrarian and Overhead Wire. Hudnut discusses a different approach to taxing land: How about restructuring the property tax across America to install a two-tiered system? More tax on those horizontal pieces of empty land and asphalt, less on [...] January 22nd, 2009 | Tags: density, development, Jane Jacobs, NIMBY, parking, sprawl | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning | 30 comments |  printable view
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27 Mises Street I recently googled upon a post at a blog called “Rub-a-Dub” that mentioned a land development project in Mount Pleasant, SC called I’On. I imagine the developers of the I’On “Traditional Neighborhood Development” (TND) community are sympathetic with Market Urbanism, as they named streets after [...] January 21st, 2009 | Tags: development, Free-market, I'On, Jane Jacobs, Ludwig Von Mises, Mount Pleasant, New Urbanism, NIMBY, smart growth, Sout Carolina, TND, walkability, zoning | Category: Economics, housing, Jane Jacobs, zoning | 7 comments | printable viewBrian Phillips at Live Oaks contacted me regarding the recent post by Stephen Smith on planning in Houston. Brian is a long time opponent of land use restrictions and defender of property rights in Houston. Brian has a different point of view on the subject, and has written a post on his [...] December 29th, 2008 | Tags: developer, development, Houston, libertarian, planning, property rights, regulation, Stephen Smith, Urban Legends, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 6 comments | printable viewWhile I sympathize with the theme and agree with regards to roadway spending and “conservative” hypocrisy, a recent article in the progressive The American Prospect takes a narrow-minded view of politics and urbanism, while throwing around broad generalizations about evolution and global warming to support their assertions: The Conservative Case for Urbanism In fact, [...] September 12th, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, density, development, infrastructure, Republican, sprawl, transit, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, planning, privatization, Transportation | 8 comments | printable viewEver hear of interesting economic indicators such as the correlation beween the economy and length of skirts? Here’s one urbanists should appreciate: the skyscraper index, which shows strong correlation between the completion of world’s tallest buildings and downturns in the business cycle. Mark Thornton discusses the skyscraper index in his article, Skyscrapers and Business [...] August 26th, 2008 | Tags: Building, business cycles, construction, development, Dubai, Economics, macroeconomics, skyscrapers | Category: Economics | 9 comments | printable view
affordability 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 [...] August 14th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, Chicago, CNT, development, housing, HUD-Brookings, nyc, Peter Gordon, transit | Category: Economics, housing | 2 comments | printable viewHarvard Economist Ed Glaeser wrote an opinion piece in the New York Sun about the differences in housing affordability and other costs of living between Houston and New York. New York is naturally more expensive than Houston because the geographical constraints force higher density development, which is more expensive to build. New York’s highly [...] July 17th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, density, development, Economics, glaeser, Houston, nyc, zoning | Category: Economics, featured, housing, zoning | Leave a comment | printable viewThere is little reliable research into the economic returns of high-performance (green) features of buildings, but Professor John Quigley plans to release his groundbreaking research on the subject this Fall. I am very excited to learn this news, and will certainly look forward to reviewing the results. Especially if implementation could improve my own [...] July 10th, 2008 | Tags: development, energy, Environmental, green, Haas, John Quigley, leed, research | Category: Economics, Environment | 2 comments | printable view |
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