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Matt 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 viewI 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 [...] December 13th, 2009 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, automobile, highways, Intervention, planning, smart growth | Category: Economics, planning, video, zoning | 24 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith I was heartened to see an article about the need for mass transit in the pages of The Nation, though I was severely disappointed by the magazine’s own hypocrisy and historical blindness. The article is in all ways a standard left-liberal screed against the car and for mass transit, which [...] February 6th, 2009 | Tags: automobile, density, planning, progressivism, roads, San Francisco, smart growth, Stephen Smith, transit, Transportation, zoning | Category: history, planning, sprawl, Transportation | 11 comments |
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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 |
printable viewThis post will be the first of many of an ongoing feature at Market Urbanism entitled Urbanism Legends. (a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) In many public forums and in the blogosphere, I consistently encounter myths about land development and Urban Economics. These myths typically look [...] June 28th, 2008 | Tags: Beverly Hills, construction, demand, density, Economics, Free-market, infrastructure, smart growth, urban growth boundaries, Urban Legends, Urbanism, Urban[ism] Legends, William Graham Sumner, zoning | Category: Economics, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | 30 comments |
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