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Please don’t misread the title. Herbert Hoover is not a man I consider a “Legend” – quite the contrary. I use the words “Urbanism Legend” in the context of the series of posts intended to dispel popular myths as they relate to urbanism. Myths and fallacies about Herbert Hoover are abundant these days [...] February 12th, 2009 | Tags: Euclidean, great depression, Herbert Hoover, highways, planning, progressivism, property rights, zoning | Category: history, planning, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | 20 comments |
 printable viewOne of my favorite new blogs, Rationalitate brought up a topic that I have spent much time thinking about, The Great Depression and Public Roads: In a time before the widespread adoption of income and sales taxes, property taxes made up the lion’s share of local government revenues: two-thirds of all revenue according [...] May 18th, 2008 | Tags: automobile, Eisenhower, great depression, highways, history, infrastructure, Interstate Highway System, new deal, Oil, Roosevelt | Category: Transportation | Leave a comment |
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