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Matthew Yglesias – Straight Talk on Gasoline on drilling and how conservative deviation from free-market principles has hurt the environment: Meanwhile, take something like the accessory dwellings issue. Here you have a bunch of regulations that make it illegal for people to live more densely. Illegal, in other words, to build the kind [...] July 23rd, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, Environment, gasoline, parking, privilege, socialism, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, zoning | 2 comments |
 printable viewThis is a topic I want to cover more thoroughly, but for now I present a one hour documentary video on green buildings for you leisurely viewing. I came across the snagfilms website from a recent Wall Street Journal article. Most of the documentary videos lean towards “progressive” tastes, but hopefully they’ll [...] July 20th, 2008 | Tags: density, documentary, Environment, Friedman, government, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Environment, Urban[ism] Legends, video | 12 comments |
printable viewRegular reader, Bill forwarded this article from the New York Daily News calling it an “outstanding collection of anti-density and anti-market propaganda presented (as always) as objective journalism.” The article is riddled with misconceptions (aka Urbanism Legends) about zoning and development and is a perfect example of the quality of journalism that touches [...] June 30th, 2008 | Tags: density, development, nyc, parking, planners, Transportation, Urbanism, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 8 comments |
printable viewHere’s a link to an interesting article by Scott Page at Planetizen called A Journalistic View of Cities Scott discusses how mainstream journalists are poorly equipped to write appropriately on urban issues aside from than architecture. I was reading the New York Times Magazine special architecture issue a few weeks ago when something [...] June 30th, 2008 | Tags: architects, architecture, cities, Jane Jacobs, journalism, master planning, planning, Urbanism | Category: planning | Leave a comment |
printable viewThis post will be the first of many of an ongoing feature at Market Urbanism entitled Urbanism Legends. (a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) In many public forums and in the blogosphere, I consistently encounter myths about land development and Urban Economics. These myths typically look [...] June 28th, 2008 | Tags: Beverly Hills, construction, demand, density, Economics, Free-market, infrastructure, smart growth, urban growth boundaries, Urban Legends, Urbanism, Urban[ism] Legends, William Graham Sumner, zoning | Category: Economics, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | 30 comments |
printable viewWSJ: Suburbs a Mile Too Far for Some Demographic Changes, High Gasoline Prices May Hasten Demand for Urban Living Messrs. Boseman and Wells embody trends that are dovetailing to potentially reshape a half-century-long pattern of how and where Americans live: The drivable suburb — that bedrock of post-World War II society — is [...] June 19th, 2008 | Tags: demographics, density, gas prices, Urbanism, urbanization, zoning | Category: Transportation, zoning | 4 comments |
printable viewSo, you think the planners in your area are taking something a little too far? Be glad you aren’t in Venezuela… I wish I could link to the article by Michael Mehaffy in The Urban Land Institute’s May edition of Urban Land titled “Venezuela’s New Socialist Cities”, but ULI doesn’t provide the online [...] June 13th, 2008 | Tags: capitalism, City, development, Environment, hugo chavez, planning, socialist cities, Urbanism, venezuela | Category: housing, planning | Leave a comment |
printable viewThe economics blog, Knowledge Problem on how prices effect individuals incentive to conserve: Conservation of resources: Prices change everything Steven Stoft, at the EU Energy Policy Blog, observes that market driven conservation is a slow process: Conservation is the main way consumers respond to high market prices. When price goes up, consumption comes [...] June 2nd, 2008 | Tags: conservation, Economics, gas prices, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Transportation | 14 comments |
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