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April 22, 2011 By Stephen Smith

1. PlaNYC 2.0 may try to tackle off-street minimum parking requirements for new development, though Transportation Alternatives and Tri-State Transportation Campaign are skeptical. 2. The TLC has been cracking down on illegal livery cab street hails as the Bloomberg administration considers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: dc, historic preservation, nyc, parking, taxis

Nicole Gelinas responds to Alon Levy on MTA pay

April 22, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Last week commenter Alon Levy criticized the Manhattan Institute's position on transit unions, and Nicole Gelinas in particular, as being too focused on overall pay levels while neglecting overstaffing. Nicole wrote to me soon after to defend her record on the transit issue, and it does indeed look … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: nyc, transit, unions

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April 21, 2011 By Stephen Smith

1. Another empirical paper claiming that anti-density zoning increases racial segregation: Previous research on segregation stresses things like urban form and racial preferences as primary causes. The author finds that an institutional force is more important: local land regulation. Using two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Beijing, food, nyc, race issues, Wendell Cox

How Important Are Skyscrapers, Really?

April 21, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Mary Newsom, in a review of Ed Glaeser's new book Triumph of The City, makes some arguments about skyscrapers that I've never heard before: In his eyes, skyscrapers are the height of green living. But as architect Michael Mehaffy and others have pointed out, tall buildings can be less … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: density, New Urbanism

From the comments: Public transit’s problem is overstaffing, not wages

April 15, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Alon Levy writes in the comments in response to an item in yesterday's links about a Republican legislator in Texas looking to cut bus drivers' salaries: Repeating my comment on the Austin Contrarian, and similar comments I've made on Second Avenue Sagas: the problem is more staffing than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: transit, unions

Links: Transit worker wages, farmers markets, parking, and beyond!

April 14, 2011 By Stephen Smith

1. Austin Contrarian comes out in favor of a Republican proposal to lower bus drivers' wages. I wish more liberal urbanists (i.e., urbanists) would comment on issues like these. I don't see (m)any of them vociferously defending transit labor unions, but I also don't see them criticizing them for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin, dc, food, LA, links, nyc, parking, unions

Another historic preservation district fail

April 14, 2011 By Stephen Smith

The other day I got some pushback from my weird (non-)historical preservation example, with some people saying that it wasn't a great example of what's wrong with preservation districts – the thing got built, after all! And of course I was being coy – that building was obviously going to pass the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: historic preservation, nyc

When “affordable housing” is just a random middle class housing subsidy

April 14, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Affordable housing and inclusionary zoning are complicated subjects and it's hard to sum up all my thoughts and objections to the schemes in one post, so I'm going to take the death-by-a-thousand-cuts approach. Today's installment: income eligibility levels. Now, the stated intent of affordable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing Tagged With: affordable housing, dc, inclusionary zoning

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