“Form-based zoning” is something that I’ve never entirely understood. It’s always explained to me as regulating form not use, and generally the example given is that form-based zoning will require certain design aesthetics but not dictate whether something is used as a residence or a place of business or whatever. And instead of [...]
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May 15th, 2011 | Tags: Miami, New Urbanism, parking | Category: Uncategorized | 9 comments |
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printable viewAndrés Duany, leader of the New Urbanism movement, comes out against LEED standards: He said that high-density development in urban locations which entail less reliance on private cars should get a free pass on energy efficiency or energy generation standards. ”Don’t make apartment dwellers install solar power,” he said. ”They are doing their [...] February 7th, 2011 | Tags: Environment, New Urbanism | Category: Environment, planning | One comment |
printable viewI don’t want to give anyone the impression that I (or Robert Fogelson) thinks that the threat of nuclear war in the 1950s was anything but a minor footnote in the history of American decentralization, but this bit from Fogelson’s Downtown (I finally finished! – review forthcoming) caught my eye: The belief that [...] January 7th, 2011 | Tags: density, New Urbanism, terrorism | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments |
printable viewMatt Yglesias has been on a roll lately with the urbanism posts, all of which have a heavy “market urbanist” slant, but it’s this post about parking reform in/around Boston (riffing off of this Boston Globe article) that seals the deal for me: Regulators pushing developers to build less parking than they want [...] October 26th, 2010 | Tags: New Urbanism, parking, Randal O'Toole, smart growth, taxes | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Matt Yglesias points to an article about Toronto’s new zoning code. The story is short on details, although the lowering of parking minimums near transit and overall simplification of the code seem like appealing features to Market Urbanists. I did, however, find a blog post from last year about the [...] August 27th, 2010 | Tags: CATO, New Urbanism, parking, Randal O'Toole, reason, Stephen Smith, Toronto, zoning | Category: zoning | 2 comments |
printable viewAt Volokh, Ilya Somin discusses a recent piece in the American Prospect (also linked from here) that favors “New Urbanism” to prevent “unwalkable” sprawl. Somin favors “voting with your feet” as the preferred method of satisfying location preferences. Unfortunately, voting options have been whittled down through government interventions: To the extent that we [...] May 13th, 2009 | Tags: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning | Category: housing, planning, sprawl, zoning | 18 comments |
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43 John Galt Way
27 Mises Street I recently googled upon a post at a blog called “Rub-a-Dub” that mentioned a land development project in Mount Pleasant, SC called I’On. I imagine the developers of the I’On “Traditional Neighborhood Development” (TND) community are sympathetic with Market Urbanism, as they named streets [...] January 21st, 2009 | Tags: development, Free-market, I'On, Jane Jacobs, Ludwig Von Mises, Mount Pleasant, New Urbanism, NIMBY, smart growth, Sout Carolina, TND, walkability, zoning | Category: Economics, housing, Jane Jacobs, zoning | 6 comments |
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