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by Stephen Smith While most people associate cities with pollution and the material and ecological excess of late capitalism, I’ve long believed that urbanization has the potential to be a great environmental savior. The NYT has a fascinating article that confirms what I said about cities attracting people who would otherwise live more environmentally profligate [...] January 31st, 2009 | Tags: Environment, Farmers, land, Stephen Smith | Category: Environment | Comments |
 printable viewDiscussing Ithaca, New York’s plan to increase permitted density and reduce parking minimums, I can dig what Matthew Yglesias says : The distributive impact of parking minimums is to redistribute income from people who don’t own cars to people who do own cars—not to shift income from poor to rich. A rich family will probably have [...] January 23rd, 2009 | Tags: density, Environment, housing, Matthew Yglesias, parking | Category: Economics, housing, parking | Comments |
printable viewMatthew Yglesias – Straight Talk on Gasoline on drilling and how conservative deviation from free-market principles has hurt the environment: Meanwhile, take something like the accessory dwellings issue. Here you have a bunch of regulations that make it illegal for people to live more densely. Illegal, in other words, to build the kind of communities where [...] July 23rd, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, Environment, gasoline, parking, privilege, socialism, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, zoning | Comments |
printable viewThis is a topic I want to cover more thoroughly, but for now I present a one hour documentary video on green buildings for you leisurely viewing. I came across the snagfilms website from a recent Wall Street Journal article. Most of the documentary videos lean towards “progressive” tastes, but hopefully they’ll add [...] July 20th, 2008 | Tags: density, documentary, Environment, Friedman, government, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Environment, Urban[ism] Legends, video | Comments |
printable viewI found a link to a great article at FreeColorado.com. It doesn’t apply to urbanism specifically, but conceptually deals with privatization of publicly owned land. Free Colorado – Should Government Own Wilderness? here’s a few quotes I enjoyed: Just how [...] June 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Environment, politics, privatization, Sierra Club, wilderness | Category: privatization | Comments |
printable viewSo, you think the planners in your area are taking something a little too far? Be glad you aren’t in Venezuela… I wish I could link to the article by Michael Mehaffy in The Urban Land Institute’s May edition of Urban Land titled “Venezuela’s New Socialist Cities”, but ULI doesn’t provide the online edition to non-members. [...] June 13th, 2008 | Tags: capitalism, City, development, Environment, hugo chavez, planning, socialist cities, Urbanism, venezuela | Category: housing, planning | Comments |
printable viewNot directly speaking about urbanism, but the same ideas can be applied to green developers, and even developers in general. ‘“You serve people by making things people want.” And if people want pollution-free power, the free-market can deliver it.’ Watch here. April 14th, 2008 | Tags: Environment, Free-market, green, video | Category: video | Comments |
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