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From the comments and emails I’ve gotten, there will be a pretty decent turnout of Market Urbanists at Sandy Ikeda’s Jane’s Walk on Sunday, “Eye’s on Brooklyn Heights.” Here are the details from the site; Date: Sunday May 8, 2011 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Meeting Place: The tour will meet at the steps of [...] May 5th, 2011 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Jane Jacobs | Category: Jane Jacobs | One comment |
 printable viewThe Ludwig von Mises Institute publishes a podcast performed by Jeff Riggenbach called “The Libertarian Tradition”, which discusses significant figures in the libertarian movement. The most recent edition is dedicated to Jane Jacobs, who’s ideas are highly regarded by many libertarians, despite the fact that she publicly distanced herself from being associated with the [...] April 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Brooklyn Heights, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Riggenbach, Ludwig Von Mises, Thomas Schmidt | Category: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Economics, history, Jane Jacobs | 2 comments |
printable viewOld Urbanist is one of my favorite urbanist blogs (and not just because of the name), and Charlie’s got a post up about Boston that I think has a good market urbanist lesson in it. He describes how the formerly elevated Central Artery, buried by the Big Dig, was replaced with a park, [...] April 12th, 2011 | Tags: Boston, Jane Jacobs, parks | Category: Uncategorized | 16 comments |
printable view“Houston has no zoning” is a very popular urban planning meme. It has its roots in Houston’s lacks one very specific kind of zoning: Euclidean separation of residential, commercial, and industrial uses. Euclidean zoning happens to be the one kind of planning that people easily understand (the whole meatpacking-plant-in-my-backyard fear), and so the [...] January 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Houston, Jane Jacobs | Category: Jane Jacobs, zoning | 7 comments |
printable view1. An bill that would replace New Jersey’s court-mandated patchwork of inclusionary zoning programs with a more uniform 10% affordable housing mandate has left advanced through its Assembly committee after passing the NJ Senate, though Chris Christie promised to veto it. 2. Last month I reported that Obama’s deficit commission may recommend paring [...] November 11th, 2010 | Tags: inclusionary zoning, Jane Jacobs, mortgage interest deduction, New Jersey, nyc, parking | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments |
printable viewIn the comments of my most recent post, insightful commenter, OldUrbanism pointed out some items that need attention: The last two factors, legal costs associated with eminent domain and opportunity costs of land, are in fact often included in typical project cost estimates for both public and private projects. The former is fairly [...] September 6th, 2009 | Tags: correction, Ed Glaeser, Jane Jacobs, reason, robert moses, Sam Staley | Category: infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation | One comment |
printable viewThis 5th installment of the Rothbard Series dovetails well with the most recent post on segregation by guest blogger, Stephen Smith, as well as a post back in July over at Austin Contrarian. If you haven’t kept up with our discussion, Murray Rothbard’s classic For A New Liberty can be downloaded free [...] August 25th, 2009 | Tags: discrimination, diversity, For a New Liberty, Free-market, Jane Jacobs, Murray Rothbard, segregation, street cars | Category: housing, Jane Jacobs, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist | 11 comments |
printable viewIt turns out the entire Chapter 11 called “The Public Sector, II: Streets and Roads” is actually a chapter on Market Urbanism. Bryan Caplan considers this chapter “the least convincing chapter in the book”, but as a Market Urbanist, I strongly disagree. I do admit that his discussion of safety and policing of private local streets involves a great deal of speculation and reliance on faith in the action of individual agents, but the insights into road subsidization and land-use patterns was decades ahead of its time. These insights may not seem so radical now, but imagine the resistance to these ideas in the days before urbanism gained much credibility. [...] June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: For a New Liberty, Jane Jacobs, Murray Rothbard, private streets, privatization, safety | Category: Economics, infrastructure, planning, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist, Transportation, zoning | 6 comments |
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