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I 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 libertarian intellectual Will Wilkinson [...] January 26th, 2009 | Tags: affordable housing, CATO, Ed Glaeser, Free-market, glaeser, highways, libertarian, progressivism, sprawl, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors | Comments |
 printable viewby Stephen Smith Yesterday I was listening to the pre-inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial on the radio, and one of the speakers said something that struck me as emblematic of the challenges that Barack Obama faces, though I doubt she realized the ironic significance. She was praising Theodore Roosevelt’s conservationist legacy as a model [...] January 20th, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, conservation, highways, roads, Stephen Smith, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Transportation | Comments |
printable viewThis post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) Last week President-elect Obama announced some details of [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: Barack Obama, carbon, Henry Hazlitt, infrastructure, Market, stimulus, subsidization, Urbanism | Category: Environment, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, sprawl | Comments |
printable viewI related to this particular post by Michael Lewyn at Planetizen, Why I fight: Occasionally, someone familiar with my scholarship asks me: why do you care about walkability and sprawl and cities? Why is this cause more important to you than twenty other worthy causes you might be involved in? The answer: Freedom. Now, the article doesn’t discuss [...] November 25th, 2008 | Tags: freedom, Michael Lewyn, mobility, Planetizen, sprawl, suburbia, Urbanism, walkability | Category: sprawl | Comments |
printable viewDaniel Nairn at Discovering Urbanism brings up a great point about cul-de-sacs. Are they public goods, or truly unnecessary “socialism in its most extreme form”? Take the standard cul-de-sac that serves a handful of households. The purpose of this design is to exclude the general public from passing through while serving the automotive needs of [...] November 18th, 2008 | Tags: cul-de-sac, Daniel Nairn, DOT, driveway, network, socialism, Transportation, Urbanism, Virginia | Category: Transportation, privatization | Comments |
printable viewReason Magazine, the Reason Foundation, and Cato are generally pretty okay libertarian standard-bearers, but they lose serious libertarian cred when it comes to land use. In those areas, they’ve been completely co-opted by hacks like Randal O’Toole, Wendell Cox, and Robert Poole, who take every opportunity to bash the budding New Urbanist movement over [...] November 6th, 2008 | Tags: free market urbanism, Randall O'Toole, Robert Poole, Stephen Smith, Urbanism, Wendell Cox | Category: Free-market impostors, zoning | Comments |
printable viewWhile I sympathize with the theme and agree with regards to roadway spending and “conservative” hypocrisy, a recent article in the progressive The American Prospect takes a narrow-minded view of politics and urbanism, while throwing around broad generalizations about evolution and global warming to support their assertions: The Conservative Case for Urbanism In fact, one doesn’t have [...] September 12th, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, density, development, infrastructure, Republican, sprawl, transit, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, Transportation, planning, privatization | Comments |
printable viewDuring my early college studies in Architecture and Urban Design, I became loosely familiar with the ideas of Jane Jacobs, one of the most celebrated urbanist intellectuals. Sanford Ikeda’s FEE lectures [mp3] have inspired me to learn more about Jane Jacobs from a Free Market Urbanism point of view. Here’s an article by Professors Ikeda [...] August 29th, 2008 | Tags: Ed Glaeser, Farmland, FEE, free market urbanism, Gene Callahan, Ikeda, Jane Jacobs, libertarian, Mathew Kahn, Professors, Sanford, Urban Economist, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, sprawl | Comments |
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