I’ve had my disagreements with Randal O’Toole, a libertarian defender of suburban sprawl, but to his credit, he’s done the most convincing accounting of subsidies (well, accounting costs, at least) that I’ve seen yet. And though he normally concentrates on federal costs, his write-up of an American Bus Association report includes this paragraph about [...]
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Remember my response yesterday to Randal O’Toole’s Cato article on parking, when I said that I could easily write a three-part series? Not a joke! (Though I might spare you and leave the trilogy unfinished. Maybe.) Today, I’d like to take on O’Toole’s comments on California, which he argues is too dense and [...] April 9th, 2011 | Tags: California, density, Randal O'Toole | Category: Uncategorized | 8 comments |
 printable view1. Maps of sprawl and gentrification in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, and Boston. At first the picture looks bleak for cities, but Jesus – even downtown Detroit is growing! (More here.) 2. A real, live Texan (just kidding – he lives in Austin) replies to O’Toole on parking. 3. Why aren’t (more) urbanists cheering [...] April 8th, 2011 | Tags: Austin, Boston, California, Chicago, dc, Detroit, Environment, parking, Randal O'Toole, St. Louis, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments |
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Houston <3 parking minimums Donald Shoup and Randal O’Toole – they just can’t get enough of each other! Donald Shoup, you may recall, is the granddaddy of free market parking policy, and Randal O’Toole is the self-styled Antiplanner. Though they both claim to be libertarians, they seem to have some pretty fundamental [...] April 7th, 2011 | Tags: Donald Shoup, Houston, parking, Randal O'Toole, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 27 comments |
printable viewAs promised, I want to reprint the responses I got from Wendell Cox and Randal O’Toole, but first I wanted to invite everyone to a livechat that’s being organized by Tim Lee. Tim used to write for Cato, but now he’s pursuing a PhD at MIT and doing freelance writing on tech policy. [...] December 7th, 2010 | Tags: density, Marc Scribner, Randal O'Toole, seattle, Wendell Cox | Category: Uncategorized | 11 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 | Leave a comment |
printable viewApologies to everyone for the light posting – over the next few weeks I may be a bit busy with job and internship applications (any suggestions for work or job offers would be very much appreciated!), but hopefully I’ll still be able to put up a few posts a week. But for now, [...] November 2nd, 2010 | Tags: conservatism, disability, gentrification, Los Angeles, North Korea, nyc, parking, pedicabs, portland, Randal O'Toole, Southeast Asia, transit-oriented development, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | 3 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 |
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