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Review: The Urban Mystique, by Josh Stephens

June 22, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

This book, available from solimarbooks.com, is a set of very short essays (averaging about three to five pages) on topics related to urban planning. Like me, Stephens generally values walkable cities and favors more new housing in cities. So naturally I am predisposed to like this book.But there … [Read more...]

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More on Subways and COVID-19

June 8, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

After reading an article suggesting that New York's subways seeded COVID-19, Salim Furth's response to that article on this blog, and one or two other pieces, I decided to write a more scholarly piece summarizing the various arguments. The piece is at https://works.bepress.com/lewyn/196/For … [Read more...]

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The “everybody left Manhattan” argument (updated 5-15 to reflect recent data)

May 7, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

The COVID-19 epidemic has led to a lot of argument about the role of urban form; defenders of the Sprawl Faith argue that New York's high infection and fatality rate is proof that transit and density are bad, bad, bad. On the other hand, urbanists point out that within the New York metro area, … [Read more...]

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Do cities have too much public space?

March 2, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

My sense is that parks and similar forms of public space tend to be far less controversial than housing or industry. But an interesting paper by Israeli architecture professor Hillel Schocken suggests that a city can have too much public space.He begins by asking: why do cities exist? He … [Read more...]

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Are Dollar Stores Wiping Out Grocery Stores?

January 29, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

I had always thought dollar stores were a nice thing to have in an urban neighborhood, but recently they have become controversial. Some cities have tried to limit their growth, based on the theory that "they impede opportunities for grocery stores and other businesses to take root and grow." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Development, Economics, Michael Lewyn, Places & Spaces, planning, Policy, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning Tagged With: dollar

Even NIMBYs should be YIMBYs

January 28, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

Jeremiah Moss, a New York blogger, just wrote a long article complaining about the bad habits of his new neighbors in the East Village. I suspect many, if not most readers, of his article would think: maybe we need to zone out new housing to keep out the yuppies!But it seems to me that this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Development, housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism Tagged With: moss

For once I agree with the NIMBYs: please don’t turn my neighborhood into Dubai- because Dubai isn’t dense enough!

December 12, 2019 By Michael Lewyn

One common argument against new housing is that it will turn "[neighborhood at issue] into Dubai." Evidently, some people think Dubai is a hellscape of super-dense skyscapers.In fact, Many Dubai neighborhoods aren't very dense at all.There is one Dubai neighborhood that is more dense than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, Places & Spaces, World City Profiles Tagged With: Dubai

More evidence that sunlight is no crisis

October 24, 2019 By Michael Lewyn

In my email box today, I received a message from an anti-housing group, touting a study from the localize.city website* on sunlight on New York neighborhoods. The purpose of the study is to show which neighborhoods have the least sunlight.The study found that 27 of the city's allegedly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, Uncategorized Tagged With: sunlight

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