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(Map of Robert Moses’ unbuilt proposals via “vanshnookenraggen.”) Sandy Ikeda blogs: If Moses were around today I don’t think he’d waste any time getting every major project he could think of “shovel ready” for hundreds of billions of stimulus money. While he’s no longer with us, I do fear that, with the incentive structure of the [...] March 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, infrastructure, nyc, robert moses, stimulus | Category: corruption, history, infrastructure | Comments |
 printable viewJim Powell’s latest article at Reason discusses the Tennessee Valley Authority, FDR’s most ambitious infrastructure program: It was heralded as a program to build dams that would control floods, facilitate navigation, lift people out of poverty, and help America recover from the Great Depression. Yet the reality is that the TVA probably flooded more land than [...] March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: infrastructure, reason, Roosevelt, TVA | Category: Economics, infrastructure | 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 |
printable viewRecently, I came accross an article by Charles Johnson, who blogs at Rad Geek. The article had linked to a Market Urbanism post about how user fees and gas taxes fall well short of funding road use in the US. Charles’ article further debunks the Urbanism Legend asserted by free-market imposters that a free-market highway [...] December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Economics, eminent domain, gasoline, highways, infrastructure, Interstate Highway System, libertarian, privatization | Category: Transportation, privatization | Comments |
printable viewThis post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) Last week President-elect Obama announced some details of [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: Barack Obama, carbon, Henry Hazlitt, infrastructure, Market, stimulus, subsidization, Urbanism | Category: Environment, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, sprawl | 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, one doesn’t have [...] September 12th, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, density, development, infrastructure, Republican, sprawl, transit, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, Transportation, planning, privatization | Comments |
printable viewNo doubt, mass production of the automobile is one of the greatest innovations of all times. It has allowed for increased mobility of goods and people, which has greatly improved productivity and leisure. But, is subsidizing mobility at the expense of taxpayers taking things too far? In various blogs and forums, I frequently come across the [...] July 30th, 2008 | Tags: automobile, construction, DeLucchi, fuel, gas, infrastructure, mobility, roads, socialism, tax, tolls | Category: Economics, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, featured, infrastructure | Comments |
printable viewThis post will be the first of many of an ongoing feature at Market Urbanism entitled Urbanism Legends. (a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) In many public forums and in the blogosphere, I consistently encounter myths about land development and Urban Economics. These myths typically look at how [...] June 28th, 2008 | Tags: Beverly Hills, construction, demand, density, Economics, Free-market, infrastructure, smart growth, urban growth boundaries, Urban Legends, Urbanism, Urban[ism] Legends, William Graham Sumner, zoning | Category: Economics, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | Comments |
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