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Why Walkable Cities Enjoy More Freedom

March 12, 2018 By Vera Kichanova

If you happen to visit Egypt and find yourself in the famous Tahrir Square, you might be puzzled: how could this space accommodate two million protesters? In fact, the square looked different at the time of the Arab Spring, up until the new military government ringed its central part with an iron … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, history, Jane Jacobs, Policy

new report on SROs

February 20, 2018 By Michael Lewyn

Once upon a time, New York City's poor single people were usually not homeless because they lived in little apartments with shared bathrooms and kitchens.  These units are called "single room occupancy" (SRO) units in plannerese. (When I was young, people used less flattering terms such as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, housing

The Disillusionment of the American Planner, or How We Became Mark Brendanawicz

February 12, 2018 By Nolan Gray

Mark Brendanawicz of NBC's Parks and Recreation

Spoiler Warning: This post contains minor spoilers about Season Two of Parks and Recreation, which aired nearly 10 years ago. Why have you still not watched it? Lately I have been rewatching Parks and Recreation, motivated in part by the shocking discovery that my girlfriend never made it past … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, history, Jane Jacobs, planning Tagged With: city planning, Jane Jacobs, parks and recreation, planning

Is Zoning Popular? Reevaluating the Evidence

January 25, 2018 By Nolan Gray

New Brunswick, NJ Zoning Map

In my regular discussions of U.S. zoning, I often hear a defense that goes something like this: “You may have concerns about zoning, but it sure is popular with the American people. After all, every state has approved of zoning and virtually every city in the country has implemented zoning.” One … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, planning, Urban[ism] Legends, Zoning Tagged With: Chicago, Houston, new york, planning, racial segregation, St. Louis, zoning

Zoning Laws, the Housing Market and the Ripple Effect

December 28, 2017 By George Leef

ripple effect housing

Henry Hazlitt has called economics a science of recognizing secondary consequences. What he and others who have taken the time to study the working of free markets have perceived is that there is a natural orderliness in uncoerced dealings between men which tends to maximize the well-being of each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, history, housing, Zoning Tagged With: exclusionary zoning, inclusionary zoning, zoning

The Distorting Effects of Transportation Subsidies

December 14, 2017 By Kevin Carson

by Kevin Carson This article won the 2011 Beth A. Hoffman Memorial Prize for Economic Writing. Although critics on the left are very astute in describing the evils of present-day society, they usually fail to understand either the root of those problems (government intervention) or their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, history, Transportation

The Progressive Roots of Zoning

November 24, 2017 By Adam Hengels

by Samuel R Staley Before the twentieth century land-use and housing disputes were largely dealt with through courts using the common-law principle of nuisance. In essence if your neighbor put a building, factory, or house on his property in a way that created a measurable and tangible harm, courts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, Law, planning, Policy, Zoning Tagged With: history, New York City, planning, progressivism, zoning

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

July 12, 2017 By Jeff Fong

Richard Rothstein’s “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” should be required reading for YIMBYs and urbanists of any ideological stripe. Rothstein argues that housing segregation in the US has been the intentional outcome of policy decisions made at every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, housing, Law, Policy, Uncategorized Tagged With: history, housing market, segregation

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