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Matthew Yglesias – What Price Density The solution, as Ryan Avent says, is to build denser communities. We ought to build more transit infrastructure, of course, but it’s cheaper to use what we already have more intensively. And, of course, it’s more practical to build new infrastructure if there’s a reasonable expectation that [...] June 10th, 2008 | Tags: Building, congestion, construction, density, development, Free-market, housing, infrastructure | Category: Economics, housing, Transportation, zoning | 8 comments |
 printable viewPaul Krugman wrote an op-ed this morning how the US living and transportation patterns will not cope with high oil prices as well as European cities: Changing the geography of American metropolitan areas will be hard. For one thing, houses last a lot longer than cars. Long after today’s S.U.V.’s have become antique [...] May 19th, 2008 | Tags: infrastructure, Oil, paul krugman, public transit, suburbia, suburbs, Transportation | Category: sprawl | 10 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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