Despite its ridiculously biased opening sentence (“Fairfax County residents will have a harder time finding a free parking space in some neighborhoods if transportation planners get their way”), the Washington Post actually has a relatively informative article on potential new parking maximums in Fairfax County, Virginia. Essentially they want to do what a [...]
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January 10th, 2011 | Tags: dc, Donald Shoup, libertarianism, parking | Category: Uncategorized | 18 comments |
 printable viewI often hear from libertarian-inclined defenders of the suburban status quo that the fact that American is so overwhelmingly suburban is proof that it’s what Americans want. Economists call this “revealed preference,” but it could also be understood as voting with your feet and wallet. People have made the decision to live in [...] November 25th, 2010 | Tags: density, libertarianism, Randal O'Toole, Wendell Cox | Category: Uncategorized | One comment |
printable viewIt’s no secret that conservatives and libertarians don’t have very warm feelings towards urbanism. But with their emphasis on upzoning and reducing parking minimums, shouldn’t new urbanism and smart growth have at least some libertarian constituency? And given that local roads are paid for almost entirely out of general funds – that is [...] November 20th, 2010 | Tags: conservatism, libertarianism, progressivism | Category: Uncategorized | 34 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Among urban planners, libertarianism gets a pretty bad rap. Melissa Lafsky at the Infrastructurist goes so far as to call libertarianism “an enemy of infrastructure,” and dismisses entirely the idea that private industry can build infrastructure with a single hyperlink – to a poorly-written article on New Zealand’s economy written over [...] August 25th, 2010 | Tags: libertarianism, reason, Stephen Smith | Category: Economics, infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation | 26 comments |
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