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I found a link to a great article at FreeColorado.com. It doesn’t apply to urbanism specifically, but conceptually deals with privatization of publicly owned land. Free Colorado – Should Government Own Wilderness? here’s a few quotes I enjoyed: Just how far [...] June 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Environment, politics, privatization, Sierra Club, wilderness | Category: privatization | View Comments |
 printable viewWelcome to the final post in the series discussing the consequences of rent control. Thank you to the subscribers who have patiently awaited each new post. I hope everyone found it enlightening. If you haven’t read the entire series, you can catch up with these links: Rent Control Part One: Microeconomics Lesson and Hording [...] June 1st, 2008 | Tags: affordability, affordable housing, California, Chicago, Decontrol, development, Economics, evict, exclusionary zoning, FAR, Free-market, government, homeowners, housing, housing market, industrial, landlord, LIHTC, politics, property rights, property taxes, proposition 98, redistribution of wealth, rent control, rent regulation, rent stabilization, solutions, taxes, tenant, Vacancy, vacancy decontrol, vouchers, zoning | Category: rent control, zoning | View Comments |
printable viewNBC5 has an update listing the people involved and video here: New Corruption Charges Hit Building, Zoning Departments Chicago Tribune: U.S. to announce charges against 15 in city bribe-taking probe Federal authorities are set to announce charges Thursday against 15 people, including seven City of Chicago employees, after an investigation into bribe-taking [...] May 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, corruption, development, downzoning, NIMBY, politics, property rights, Tony Rezko, zoning | Category: corruption, zoning | View Comments |
printable viewJohn McCain and Hillary Clinton have both supported the idea of a “Gas Tax Holiday“. The whole idea of a Holy Day to celebrate the worship of socialized transportation catered by Santa Clinton/McCain seems pretty absurd to me. Nonetheless, they expect pandering to gas-addicted voters to pay off in their election hopes. Unfortunately, such a gas [...] May 12th, 2008 | Tags: Barack Obama, Economics, election, Free-market, highways, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, petroleum, politics, pork, President, privatization, transit, Transportation | Category: Transportation | View Comments |
printable viewWatch it right here: And also, Kunstler on oil [...] May 7th, 2008 | Tags: colbert, comedy, gas, gas tax, kunstler, peak oil, politics, video | Category: Transportation, video | View Comments |
printable viewI tend to agree that there is some hypocrisy in the conservative/libertarian world when it comes to transportation, which is part of the reason I started this blog. A more free-market transporation system would certainly lead to a more urban land use pattern; something between pre-auto, transit-reliant density and current auto-reliant sprawling suburbs. Regardless, market-based solutions [...] April 19th, 2008 | Tags: congestion pricing, density, Free-market, highways, libertarian, politics, reason, Transportation | Category: Transportation | View Comments |
printable viewThe Antiplanner discusses how well-intentioned agencies become wasteful government-planning bureaucracies. April 15th, 2008 | Tags: Free-market, highways, planning, politics, privatization | Category: planning | View Comments |
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