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1. Laneway housing, Vancouver vs. Toronto. 2. New York state lawmakers want to ban using a phone or listening to headphones while crossing streets. Unfortunately for us pedestrians, there are very few limited access, grade-separated walkways, so in essence this would criminalize listening to an iPod while walking. 3. An interesting article about [...] January 26th, 2011 | Tags: Canada, congestion, congestion pricing, Singapore, Toronto, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
 printable view1. Systemic Failure praises Gov. (again) Jerry Brown’s efforts to do away with California’s redevelopment agencies and “enterprise zones” (there’s a euphemism if I’ve ever heard one), which the author claims promote autocentric development with public funds. He then cites a few examples of redevelopment agencies pushing such plans in San Jose. If [...] January 25th, 2011 | Tags: California, Environment, nyc, parking, rent control, Scarano, Toronto | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Matt Yglesias points to an article about Toronto’s new zoning code. The story is short on details, although the lowering of parking minimums near transit and overall simplification of the code seem like appealing features to Market Urbanists. I did, however, find a blog post from last year about the [...] August 27th, 2010 | Tags: CATO, New Urbanism, parking, Randal O'Toole, reason, Stephen Smith, Toronto, zoning | Category: zoning | 2 comments |
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