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1. Donald Shoup makes up for last week with an interesting piece on how America’s tax structure biases employers towards providing parking for their employees, similar to how untaxed employer-provided healthcare shapes that industry. 2. Back in August Randal O’Toole asked for proof that minimum parking requirements force Walmart to build more parking [...] October 20th, 2010 | Tags: Donald Shoup, parking, Randal O'Toole, Stephen Smith, Urban Planning | Category: parking | 4 comments |
 printable view1. Cap’n Transit weighs in on the ARC debate, and shows that Chris Christie is more interested in shifting resources to his suburban constituents than to cutting spending. Here’s the best part: Editorial board member: What’s the difference between a gas tax hike and a fare hike, besides who it lands on? Christie: [...] October 19th, 2010 | Tags: dc, Donald Shoup, height restriction, New Jersey, Stephen Smith | Category: parking, zoning | 5 comments |
printable viewEarlier today I read an article by Daniel Garst about Bejing’s awkward population distribution that reminded me of a journal article about the general shape of socialist cities that I read a while back. Garst talks about Beijing being a “circus tent” when it comes to density, with population density increasing as you [...] October 19th, 2010 | Tags: Beijing, density, Moscow, Stephen Smith | Category: Economics, housing, planning, zoning | 10 comments |
printable viewAn influential highway group has called for replacing the flat tax on gas with a percentage tax, according to the Wall Street Journal. They want to replace the current 18.4 and 24.4 cent taxes on gasoline and diesel, respectively, with more flexible 8.4% and 10.6% tax rates. At current gas prices that would [...] October 16th, 2010 | Tags: gas tax, Stephen Smith | Category: infrastructure, Transportation | 6 comments |
printable viewDespite my issues with how new transit projects are implemented in America today, I’m generally happy to see them built. Even though they’re flawed, heavily-subsidized government creations, they make upzoning more palatable and can later be sold off and privately managed. There’s a lot I’d do differently, but on net I think most [...] October 15th, 2010 | Tags: airports, mass transit, Oakland, Shanghai, Stephen Smith | Category: infrastructure, Transportation | 34 comments |
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Cato's DC headquarters I never thought the day would come, but I actually find myself taking issue with Donald Shoup’s recent criticism of the Cato Institute (which Randal O’Toole works for) and its own DC headquarters’ employee parking program. While I agree with Shoup’s more general critique of Cato’s stance on transportation [...] October 13th, 2010 | Tags: dc, parking, Stephen Smith | Category: parking | 8 comments |
printable viewThe New York Times has an interesting article about a Justice Department probe into Darien, CT’s local inclusionary zoning rules. Inclusionary zoning means essentially that multi-unit developments have to offer a portion of the project as “affordable housing,” which invariably means charging below-market rents. We here at Market Urbanism oppose it because it [...] October 13th, 2010 | Tags: Connecticut, inclusionary zoning, race issues, Stephen Smith | Category: housing, zoning | 12 comments |
printable viewA lot of fuss has been made by urbanists about how important the ARC transit tunnel under the Hudson is to curbing sprawl in North Jersey, but frankly I’m not convinced that more commuter rail into Manhattan is the cure for what ails New Jersey. The state’s fundamental problem is its reliance on [...] October 11th, 2010 | Tags: commuter rail, New Jersey, nyc, Philadelphia, Stephen Smith | Category: infrastructure, sprawl, Transportation | 5 comments |
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