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Stuck in the (Missing) Middle

September 8, 2020 By Salim Furth

Everybody loves missing middle housing! What’s not to like? It consists of neighborly, often attractive homes that fit in equally well in Rumford, Maine, and Queens, New York. Missing middle housing types have character and personality. They’re often affordable and vintage.Daniel Parolek’s new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Book Review, Development, housing Tagged With: books, Economics, housing, missing middle

What Should I Read to Understand Zoning?

April 16, 2019 By Nolan Gray

A stack of books

We are blessed and cursed to live in times in which most smart people are expected to have an opinion on zoning. Blessed, in that zoning is arguably the single most important institution shaping where we live, how we move around, and who we meet. Cursed, in that zoning is notoriously obtuse, with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, zoning Tagged With: alain bertaud, bernard siegan, books, david owen, death and life of great american cities, edward glaeser, green metropolis, Jane Jacobs, reading list, richard babcock, richard rothstein, seymour toll, sonia hirt, the color of law, the zoning game, triumph of the city, William Fischel, zoned american, zoned in the usa, zoning

“Order Without Design”, a new guide to urban planning

December 5, 2018 By Anthony Ling

This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding. This is how Jane Jacobs opened her 1961 classic “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”. It wouldn’t be an inappropriate opener for Alain Bertaud’s upcoming “Order Without Design”.While Jacobs was an observer of how cities … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Economics, housing, planning, Policy, Transportation, zoning Tagged With: alain bertaud, books, order without design

“Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities” Out Today

December 4, 2018 By Nolan Gray

Alain Bertaud's long awaited book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, is out today. Bertaud is a senior research scholar at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and former principle urban planner at the World Bank.Working through a pre-release copy over the past few weeks, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Book Review, Development, World Tagged With: alain bertaud, order without design

New and Noteworthy: Randy Shaw’s Generation Priced Out

November 20, 2018 By Michael Lewyn

In Generation Priced Out, housing activist Randy Shaw writes a book about the rent crisis for non-experts.  Shaw's point of view is that of a left-wing YIMBY: that is, he favors allowing lots of new market-rate housing, but also favors a variety of less market-oriented policies to prevent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, rent control Tagged With: PHIMBY, randy shaw

Mini review: Vanishing New York, by Jeremiah Moss

December 15, 2017 By Michael Lewyn

Vanishing New York

I recently read a highly publicized pro-NIMBY book, Vanishing New York.   The author, who goes by the pen name "Jeremiah Moss" tells a simple story: throughout New York, gentrification and chain stores are on the march, making the city rich and boring.  The story has an element of truth: obviously, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Gentrification, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism Tagged With: moss

“Curb Rights” at 20: A Summary and Review

November 21, 2017 By Nolan Gray

People sitting on a bus

At 4:30 am, alarms on my cellphone and tablet start beeping, just enough out of sync to prompt me to get up and turn them off. By 5:00 am, I riding as a passenger along an unusually sedate New Jersey Turnpike, making friendly conversation with my driver and survey partner to make sure he stays … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Logistics & Transportation, privatization, Transportation Tagged With: bus rapid transit, buses, curb rights, mass transit, New Jersey, privatization, Transportation

A Guide to Urban Development [Guia de Gestão Urbana]

May 10, 2017 By Jeff Fong

Caos Planejado, in conjunction with Editora BEI/ArqFuturo, recently published A Guide to Urban Development (Guia de Gestão Urbana) by Anthony Ling. The book offers best practices for urban design and although it was written for a Brazilian audience, many of its recommendations have universal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Development, Economics, housing, infrastructure, planning, Policy, privatization, Transportation, Uncategorized, zoning Tagged With: Brazil, infrastructure, mobility, policy, zoning

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