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Maybe the delay in posts led you to believe the Rothbard Series was complete. The good news is that there are a few more posts to go, and the ones coming up next should be the most interesting to urbanists. If you haven’t kept up with our discussion, Murray Rothbard’s classic For [...] October 19th, 2009 | Tags: emergence, For a New Liberty, Free-market, Murray Rothbard, Private Roads, private streets, privatization, railways, standardization, Transportation | Category: infrastructure, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist, Transportation | 4 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 |
printable viewphoto at Brooklyn Paper was attributed to Montague Street Business Improvement District Stephen at rationalitate occasionally brings up that truly privatized streets could be converted to other uses. I think it would be inevitable that on streets with many shops and cafes, such as Montague Street in Brooklyn, the shops may get [...] June 21st, 2008 | Tags: BID, brooklyn, montague street, pedestrians, private streets | Category: privatization | 10 comments |
printable viewThis isn’t some crazy proposal, they have been private since the 20′s and 30′s. It seems there are advantages and disadvantages. You don’t have to worry about street parking when you own the street, but you have to hire your own contractor to make repairs. My main concern is that those homeowners are [...] May 10th, 2008 | Tags: brooklyn, nyc, private streets, privatization | Category: privatization, Transportation | 6 comments |
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