Market Urbanism MUsings November 16, 2018

1. Recently at Market Urbanism:

Three Policies for Making Driverless Cars Work for Cities by Emily Hamilton

To avoid repeating mistakes of the past, policymakers should create rules that neither subsidize AVs nor give them carte blanche over government-owned rights-of-way. Multiple writers have pointed out that city policymakers should actively be designing policy for the driverless future, but few have spelled out concrete plans for successful driverless policy in cities. Here are three policies that urban policymakers should begin experimenting with right away in anticipation of AVs.

Rent Control Makes It Harder to Vote with Your Feet by Gary Galles

devolving political power to lower level governments does not serve citizens’ rights when it comes to rent control, because rent control paralyzes owners’ ability to escape imposed burdens by voting with their feet.

2. Also by Market Urbanism writers:

Nolan Gray at Citylab: Voters Said No in California, but Other States Have Rent Control Battles Looming

Michael Lewyn at Planetizen: The Lincoln Park Story (On Daniel Hertz new book on the gentrification of the Chicago neighborhood)

Michael Lewyn at Planetizen:  New Urbanists and New Housing (about the friendly-but-troubled Market Urbanist/New Urbanist relationship)