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By Market Urbanism, on May 5th, 2011
From the comments and emails I’ve gotten, there will be a pretty decent turnout of Market Urbanists at Sandy Ikeda’s Jane’s Walk on Sunday, “Eye’s on Brooklyn Heights.”
Here are the details from the site;
Date: Sunday May 8, 2011
Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm
Meeting Place: The tour will meet at the steps of [...]
By Market Urbanism, on April 23rd, 2011
The Ludwig von Mises Institute publishes a podcast performed by Jeff Riggenbach called “The Libertarian Tradition”, which discusses significant figures in the libertarian movement. The most recent edition is dedicated to Jane Jacobs, who’s ideas are highly regarded by many libertarians, despite the fact that she publicly distanced herself from being associated with the [...]
By Market Urbanism, on December 13th, 2009
I came across this video interview of economist Sandy Ikeda by the Mackinac Center. Sandy currently blogs at thinkmarkets and has contributed guest posts to Market Urbanism. I thought Sandy did a great job discussing many of the topics we cover in this site. Sandy is particularly insightful when it comes to the [...]
By Market Urbanism, on April 7th, 2009
Sandy Ikeda posted an abstract for a short essay he is contributing to a Festschrift honoring Jane Jacobs. He quite eloquently describes the nature of the living city:
A city is not a man-made thing. Rather, it emerges from the actions of its inhabitants, who interact in unpredictable yet orderly ways. Under [...]
By Market Urbanism, on March 23rd, 2009
(Map of Robert Moses’ unbuilt proposals via “vanshnookenraggen.”)
Sandy Ikeda blogs:
If Moses were around today I don’t think he’d waste any time getting every major project he could think of “shovel ready” for hundreds of billions of stimulus money. While he’s no longer with us, I do fear that, with [...]
By Market Urbanism, on October 20th, 2008
When the New York Sun decided to shut down its press, the biggest loss to the blogosphere was Sanford Ikeda’s Culture of Congestion blog. At the Sun, Sandy blogged about cities, economics, politics, and related subjects.
Sandford Ikeda is an Associate Professor of Economics at SUNY Purchase. Professor Ikeda is the author of [...]
By Market Urbanism, on October 5th, 2008
The New York Sun has decided to close up shop. To Market Urbanists, the greatest casualties are Sandy Ikeda’s blog, Culture of Congestion and Ed Glaeser’s articles. Sandy’s work has inspired me to read Jane Jacobs’ books (starting with The Death and Life of Great American Cities), and I plan to post some [...]
By Market Urbanism, on September 2nd, 2008
Market Urbanism was featured in Sandy Ikeda’s NY Sun blog “Culture of Congestion”: More Kindred Spirits: Mitchell Moss and “Market Urbanism” Blog. If you don’t already, I recommend subscribing to “Culture of Congestion”.
Thanks Sandy!
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