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by Stephen Smith New Jersey has always been an odd state – it’s the most densely populated of the fifty, and yet it lies just outside of the core of both of its metro areas (Philadelphia and New York). North Jersey does have a formidable number of mid-sized cities, but the biggest – [...] October 8th, 2010 | Tags: density, inclusionary zoning, New Jersey, Philadelphia, sprawl, Stephen Smith, transit | Category: Economics, sprawl | 8 comments |
 printable viewSandy Ikeda’s latest article at FEE’s “The Freeman” is a great summary of the libertarian sprawl debate. There has been a lot of Internet chatter lately about what libertarians ought to think about urban sprawl and its causes, including pieces by Kevin Carson, Austin Bramwell, Randal O’Toole, and Matthew Yglesias. The title of [...] August 17th, 2010 | Tags: sprawl, zoning | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, parking, planning, sprawl, Transportation, zoning | 11 comments |
printable viewAt Volokh, Ilya Somin discusses a recent piece in the American Prospect (also linked from here) that favors “New Urbanism” to prevent “unwalkable” sprawl. Somin favors “voting with your feet” as the preferred method of satisfying location preferences. Unfortunately, voting options have been whittled down through government interventions: To the extent that we [...] May 13th, 2009 | Tags: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning | Category: housing, planning, sprawl, zoning | 18 comments |
printable viewFrom "Highway to hell revisited", a Financial Times article by Christopher Caldwell: The Highway Act probably has more defenders than detractors. But Mr Obama should be among the latter. The act, which budgeted $25bn in federal money to build 41,000 miles of motorway, exacerbated the very problems Mr Obama has been most eager [...] March 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, Highway Act, highways, sprawl, stimulus | Category: Environment, Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewI threw up Friday’s Redistribution post somewhat hastily during my break, but there isn’t much more that I haven’t said before. As a follow-up, I’d like to tie it in with some other interesting reads. Ryan Avent at The Bellows agreed with Yglesias’ post and added: Anyway, I saw in Google reader that [...] January 26th, 2009 | Tags: affordable housing, CATO, Ed Glaeser, Free-market, glaeser, highways, libertarian, progressivism, sprawl, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors | 2 comments |
printable viewBill Hudnut at the Urban Land Institute wrote a post that attracted some attention at Austin Contrarian and Overhead Wire. Hudnut discusses a different approach to taxing land: How about restructuring the property tax across America to install a two-tiered system? More tax on those horizontal pieces of empty land and asphalt, less [...] January 22nd, 2009 | Tags: density, development, Jane Jacobs, NIMBY, parking, sprawl | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning | 30 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith It seems to be an article of faith among many land use commentators – both coming from the pro- and anti-planning positions – that Houston is a fundamentally unplanned city, and that whatever is built there is the manifest destiny of the free market in action. But is this true? [...] December 10th, 2008 | Tags: Dr. Shoup, Houston, parking, sprawl, Stephen Smith | Category: planning, sprawl, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | 17 comments |
printable viewWhile well intentioned, like many progressive interventions of the eary 1900s, zoning has contributed to sprawl (which has begun to be demonized by progressives over the recent decades) and served to inhibit the vitality and diversity of urban neighborhoods. The triumph of the core philosophy behind Euclid vs. Ambler later enabled destructive urban [...] November 28th, 2008 | Tags: Euclid, Euclidean, Kelo, NIMBY, progressivism, sprawl, zoning | Category: sprawl, zoning | 3 comments |
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