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 proposed changes, which has [...]
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August 27th, 2010 | Tags: CATO, New Urbanism, parking, Randal O'Toole, reason, Toronto, zoning | Category: zoning | View Comments |
 printable viewby Stephen Smith In general, I think of Manhattan below Central Park as perhaps the freest place in America in terms of land use restrictions. There are no minimum parking regulations, zoning variances are relatively easy to get, and FAR restrictions are relatively generous. Historical preservation designations sometimes limit redevelopment, but other than that, developers [...] August 24th, 2010 | Tags: NIMBY, nyc, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | View Comments |
printable viewSandy Ikeda’s latest article at FEE’s “The Freeman” is a great summary of the libertarian sprawl debate. There has been a lot of Internet chatter lately about what libertarians ought to think about urban sprawl and its causes, including pieces by Kevin Carson, Austin Bramwell, Randal O’Toole, and Matthew Yglesias. The title of Ben Adler’s post [...] August 17th, 2010 | Tags: sprawl, zoning | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, Transportation, parking, planning, sprawl, zoning | View Comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Discovering Urbanism has a nice post up about early 20th century urban planner Charles Mulford Robinson and his planning textbook, and it includes the following corrective to the notion that zoning originated as a way to separate polluting industry from places of residence and commerce: There’s a common narrative about how zoning unfolded in America. [...] August 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Charles Mulford Robinson, class conflict, planning, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: history, planning, zoning | View Comments |
printable viewIn his last two urbanism-related posts, Matthew Yglesias makes great points only to dissolve them in a vat of unrelated statements posed as conclusions. His logical inconsistency seems to invalidate his otherwise pretty good blogging on urbanism. A couple days ago, Matthew blogged about regulation of neighborhood retail, quoting a DC blog: “In DC, zoning laws make that [...] May 29th, 2009 | Tags: Matthew Yglesias, planning, Randal O'Toole, Transportation, zoning | Category: Free-market impostors, Transportation, planning, zoning | View Comments |
printable viewAt Volokh, Ilya Somin discusses a recent piece in the American Prospect (also linked from here) that favors “New Urbanism” to prevent “unwalkable” sprawl. Somin favors “voting with your feet” as the preferred method of satisfying location preferences. Unfortunately, voting options have been whittled down through government interventions: To the extent that we do need to enable [...] May 13th, 2009 | Tags: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning | Category: housing, planning, sprawl, zoning | View Comments |
printable viewI’ve been meaning to address the public education system’s complex role in land use patterns, and found that Murray Rothbard does a better job in his 1973 manifesto, For a New Libertythan I ever could. In summary, locally-funded public education is an engine of geographical segregation, which encourages flight from urban areas, and was a driving [...] May 4th, 2009 | Tags: affordability, education, exclusionary zoning, For a New Liberty, Murray Rothbard, property taxes, public education, schools, suburbs, zoning | Category: Economics, Rothbard The Urbanist, housing, sprawl, zoning | View Comments |
printable viewThomas Schmidt wrote a great article for LewRockwell.com that covers a lot of urbanist ground, with some help from a broad selection of Jane Jacobs’ work. Here’s a snippet: Though you might blame any number of obvious villains and historical processes for this, the name Ebenezer Howard would probably not come to mind. Howard created the Garden [...] March 17th, 2009 | Tags: Euclid, history, Jane Jacobs, Thomas Schmidt, zoning | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning, zoning | View Comments |
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