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In doing research for a post the other day, I stumbled upon this excerpt from a book called A History of Housing in New York City by Richard Plunz that I think has a useful lesson about development and regulation: The garden apartment would not have emerged unless it was profitable. In this aspect [...] 1. NYT reports on dense suburban projects being scaled back across Long Island not because of financing constraints or the recession, but because local governments are refusing to accept the density. At the end it cites AvalonBay as saying that after the its rebuke on the Island, it will reconsider “whether we would [...] April 25th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, dc, nyc, parking, transit, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments |
 printable view1. NYT A-1 headline! Number of new single-family homes sold in February was at its lowest point since data was first collected in 1963, but multi-unit sales are up. 2. Lydia DePillis with an example of some abhorrent NIMBYism from DC. 3. Anti-laneway housing propaganda from Vancouver. It looks like some are bucking [...] April 24th, 2011 | Tags: dc, density, setbacks, transit, Vancouver, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
printable viewHere’s a chapter in a book (you can read a lot of it for free) by the same authors of the NYC parking minimum study, but this time on the practical effects of the Bloomberg rezonings. Here’s an excerpt from the conclusion: This study helps to shed light on the land use consequences [...] 1. Maps of sprawl and gentrification in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, and Boston. At first the picture looks bleak for cities, but Jesus – even downtown Detroit is growing! (More here.) 2. A real, live Texan (just kidding – he lives in Austin) replies to O’Toole on parking. 3. Why aren’t (more) urbanists cheering [...] April 8th, 2011 | Tags: Austin, Boston, California, Chicago, dc, Detroit, Environment, parking, Randal O'Toole, St. Louis, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments |
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Houston <3 parking minimums Donald Shoup and Randal O’Toole – they just can’t get enough of each other! Donald Shoup, you may recall, is the granddaddy of free market parking policy, and Randal O’Toole is the self-styled Antiplanner. Though they both claim to be libertarians, they seem to have some pretty fundamental [...] April 7th, 2011 | Tags: Donald Shoup, Houston, parking, Randal O'Toole, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 27 comments |
printable viewEd Glaeser has a sprawling feature story in The Atlantic about skyscrapers that’s full of urbanist history and themes that I’ve been meaning to blog about for a few days now. It’s a great article, with a lot of New York history in it, but I wanted to highlight a few bits. The part I liked [...] February 12th, 2011 | Tags: density, Ed Glaeser, skyscrapers, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 13 comments |
printable viewIn Next American City, Aaron Barker discusses the failure of NYC’s massive rezoning in the highly transit-dependent black and immigrant neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens: One of the centerpieces of [NYC's] initiative to house an expected 1 million new arrivals in the coming decades was the Jamaica Plan. Covering 365 square blocks surrounding a [...] February 9th, 2011 | Tags: nyc, parking, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments |
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