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Ed 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 viewIn the comments of my most recent post, insightful commenter, OldUrbanism pointed out some items that need attention: The last two factors, legal costs associated with eminent domain and opportunity costs of land, are in fact often included in typical project cost estimates for both public and private projects. The former is fairly [...] September 6th, 2009 | Tags: correction, Ed Glaeser, Jane Jacobs, reason, robert moses, Sam Staley | Category: infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation | One comment |
printable viewI threw up Friday’s Redistribution post somewhat hastily during my break, but there isn’t much more that I haven’t said before. As a follow-up, I’d like to tie it in with some other interesting reads. Ryan Avent at The Bellows agreed with Yglesias’ post and added: Anyway, I saw in Google reader that [...] January 26th, 2009 | Tags: affordable housing, CATO, Ed Glaeser, Free-market, glaeser, highways, libertarian, progressivism, sprawl, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors | 2 comments |
printable viewEd Glaeser gives three compelling reasons why the government should end their infatuation with high housing prices. (Nonetheless, some of the same politicians speak through the other side of their mouths about promoting housing affordability): Why We Should Let Housing Prices Keep Falling There is a superficial attractiveness to policies that seem to [...] October 8th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, affordable housing, Ed Glaeser, government, housing, property, regulation | Category: Economics, housing | Leave a comment |
printable viewThe New York Sun has decided to close up shop. To Market Urbanists, the greatest casualties are Sandy Ikeda’s blog, Culture of Congestion and Ed Glaeser’s articles. Sandy’s work has inspired me to read Jane Jacobs’ books (starting with The Death and Life of Great American Cities), and I plan to post some [...] October 5th, 2008 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, culture of congestion, Ed Glaeser, ny sun, nyc | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs | Leave a comment |
printable viewIn case you didn’t catch it last weekend, Eileen Norcross wrote an excellent piece on rent control in New York. She touches on Charlie Rangel’s four rent control apartments scandal, some history of rent control in New York, the destructive results of rent control, vast inefficiencies caused by rent control, and moves to [...] September 19th, 2008 | Tags: Charlie Rangel, Ed Glaeser, Eileen Norcross, housing, nyc, rent control, WSJ | Category: rent control | 6 comments |
printable viewDuring my early college studies in Architecture and Urban Design, I became loosely familiar with the ideas of Jane Jacobs, one of the most celebrated urbanist intellectuals. Sanford Ikeda’s FEE lectures [mp3] have inspired me to learn more about Jane Jacobs from a Free Market Urbanism point of view. Here’s an article by [...] August 29th, 2008 | Tags: Ed Glaeser, Farmland, FEE, free market urbanism, Gene Callahan, Ikeda, Jane Jacobs, libertarian, Mathew Kahn, Professors, Sanford, Urban Economist, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, sprawl | 12 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 [...] August 11th, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, Ed Glaeser, housing, New York City | Category: Economics, housing | 10 comments |
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