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by 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 [...] August 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Charles Mulford Robinson, class conflict, planning, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: history, planning, zoning | 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 [...] May 29th, 2009 | Tags: Matthew Yglesias, planning, Randall O'Toole, Transportation, zoning | Category: Free-market impostors, Transportation, planning, zoning | 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 [...] May 13th, 2009 | Tags: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning | Category: housing, planning, sprawl, zoning | 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 [...] 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 | 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 [...] March 17th, 2009 | Tags: Euclid, history, Jane Jacobs, Thomas Schmidt, zoning | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning, zoning | Comments |
printable viewMost municipalities use the Floor Area Ratio (F.A.R.) metric to restrict development within their communities. F.A.R. is calculated by dividing the total floor area of a building by the area of the site it is built upon. In achieving planners’ and neighbors’ questionable objective of “preserving the character” of their communities, F.A.R. is a somewhat [...] Please don’t misread the title. Herbert Hoover is not a man I consider a “Legend” – quite the contrary. I use the words “Urbanism Legend” in the context of the series of posts intended to dispel popular myths as they relate to urbanism. Myths and fallacies about Herbert Hoover are abundant these days as the media [...] February 12th, 2009 | Tags: Euclidean, great depression, Herbert Hoover, highways, planning, progressivism, property rights, zoning | Category: Urban[ism] Legends, history, planning, zoning | Comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith I was heartened to see an article about the need for mass transit in the pages of The Nation, though I was severely disappointed by the magazine’s own hypocrisy and historical blindness. The article is in all ways a standard left-liberal screed against the car and for mass transit, which is a [...] February 6th, 2009 | Tags: automobile, density, planning, progressivism, roads, San Francisco, smart growth, Stephen Smith, transit, Transportation, zoning | Category: Transportation, planning, sprawl | Comments |
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