1. Planners in the Twin Cities have decided to “back away from the age-old compact in which the state tries to keep pace with suburban expansion” (i.e., they’re canceling new outer road projects) and add toll/bus lanes to highways in the inner metro area. Republican governor and business on one side, Republican voters [...]
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October 10th, 2010 | Tags: dc, highways, nyc, Philadelphia, Stephen Smith, Twin Cities | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
 printable view…sort of. He never quite cops to it, but he says he “appreciates” libertarianism’s arguments (unlike some people), and gives this great summary of what we here call the market urbanist narrative: In the past, private companies ran the trains, interurbans, trolleys and buses. They were usually able to make a profit providing [...] 1. Miller-McCune (what a bad name for a magazine) has an article about a possible VMT tax, and points out that more fuel-efficient vehicles will lead to less gas tax revenue. 2. Streetsblog has an extremely unflattering profile of Republican nominee for NY Governor Carl Paladino. He made a name for himself politically [...] October 8th, 2010 | Tags: Colombia, gas tax, inclusionary zoning, links, Los Angeles, new york, public housing, Stephen Smith, subprime, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
printable viewby 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 viewBenjamin Hemric left an interesting comment about my remark about NYU’s expansion plans in Greenwich Village. First of all, I should admit that I was lazy and got NYU’s plans totally wrong – they are going to add towers to the three that I. M. Pei already built, not tear them down, and [...] October 7th, 2010 | Tags: density, nyc, Stephen Smith | Category: planning | Leave a comment |
printable viewThere are a couple of NYC-related links that I’ve been saving up, so here they are: 1. Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor of Indiannapolis and NYC’s new deputy mayor, appears to be interested in privatizing New York City’s parking meters in order to balance the city’s budget. We’re more interested in the extent to [...] October 6th, 2010 | Tags: links, nyc, parking, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |
printable viewSomething that always annoyed me about discussions of the state of Manhattanville and Columbia’s blight study is the fact that they usually leave out restrictive zoning as the original sin. We’re certainly no fans of eminent domain or Columbia’s plans for the West Harlem neighborhood, and while people are right to point out [...] October 6th, 2010 | Tags: nyc, parking, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 2 comments |
printable viewApparently I’m not the only one thinking about urban mismeasurement, because the planning blogosphere is lighting up with examples. In addition to my critique of per passenger-mile measurements and the aforelinked critique of average density (and the great follow-up post here), I’ve noticed two other discussions about mismeasurement in urban planning: 1. A [...] October 3rd, 2010 | Tags: congestion, Environment, Stephen Smith | Category: Uncategorized | One comment |
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