I came across this video interview of economist Sandy Ikeda by the Mackinac Center. Sandy currently blogs at thinkmarkets and has contributed guest posts to Market Urbanism. I thought Sandy did a great job discussing many of the topics we cover in this site. Sandy is particularly insightful when it comes to [...]
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December 13th, 2009 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, automobile, highways, Intervention, planning, smart growth | Category: Economics, planning, video, zoning | Comments |
 printable viewI probably won’t make any friends today, but now I’ve read one too many urbanist (many who’s ideas I usually respect) use unsound logic to support high speed rail. This argument often includes something like this: “…and furthermore, highways and airports don’t come close to paying for themselves, therefore high speed rail need not [...] August 31st, 2009 | Tags: airports, boondoggles, carbon, CATO, construction, cost-benefit analysis, high speed rail, highways, Matthew Yglesias, Randall O'Toole, ryan avent, Transportation, tyler cowen | Category: Economics, Environment, Free-market impostors, Transportation, infrastructure | Comments |
printable viewSome other things to ponder for the next time you are sitting on a congested highway… When I talk to people about tolling roads, most people immediately reject the idea entirely. I like to ask them to think about it next time they are in a traffic jam. Hey, if you sit in traffic, you probably [...] March 16th, 2009 | Tags: congestion, congestion pricing, highways, John Stossel, Private Roads, privatization | Category: Transportation, privatization | Comments |
printable viewFrom "Highway to hell revisited", a Financial Times article by Christopher Caldwell: The Highway Act probably has more defenders than detractors. But Mr Obama should be among the latter. The act, which budgeted $25bn in federal money to build 41,000 miles of motorway, exacerbated the very problems Mr Obama has been most eager to solve – [...] March 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, Highway Act, highways, sprawl, stimulus | Category: Environment, Transportation | Comments |
printable viewPlease 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 as the media [...] February 12th, 2009 | Tags: Euclidean, great depression, Herbert Hoover, highways, planning, progressivism, property rights, zoning | Category: Urban[ism] Legends, history, planning, zoning | Comments |
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 libertarian intellectual Will Wilkinson [...] January 26th, 2009 | Tags: affordable housing, CATO, Ed Glaeser, Free-market, glaeser, highways, libertarian, progressivism, sprawl, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors | Comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Yesterday I was listening to the pre-inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial on the radio, and one of the speakers said something that struck me as emblematic of the challenges that Barack Obama faces, though I doubt she realized the ironic significance. She was praising Theodore Roosevelt’s conservationist legacy as a model [...] January 20th, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, conservation, highways, roads, Stephen Smith, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Transportation | Comments |
printable viewAs Washington debates how many hundreds-of-billions of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus will go towards infrastructure or to other spending/tax cut schemes, pundits claim that spending billions on “shovel ready” public works projects can effectively create jobs that will lead to recovery. As readers probably know, I am skeptical that the anticipated spending could be activated [...] January 12th, 2009 | Tags: boondoggles, budgets, construction, government, highways, infrastructure, paul krugman, roads, stimulus, Transportation, tyler cowen | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, corruption | Comments |
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