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“Market Urbanism” refers to the synthesis of classical liberal economics and ethics (market), with an appreciation of the urban way of life and its benefits to society (urbanism). We advocate for the emergence of bottom up solutions to urban issues, as opposed to ones imposed from the top down.

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Hard Truths About Why Conservatives and Libertarians Hate Urbanism

November 20, 2010 By Stephen Smith

It's no secret that conservatives and libertarians don't have very warm feelings towards urbanism. But with their emphasis on upzoning and reducing parking minimums, shouldn't new urbanism and smart growth have at least some libertarian constituency? And given that local roads are paid for almost … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free-market impostors, Policy, sprawl Tagged With: conservatism, libertarianism, progressivism

No ARC without TOD

October 11, 2010 By Stephen Smith

A lot of fuss has been made by urbanists about how important the ARC transit tunnel under the Hudson is to curbing sprawl in North Jersey, but frankly I'm not convinced that more commuter rail into Manhattan is the cure for what ails New Jersey. The state's fundamental problem is its reliance on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: infrastructure, sprawl, Transportation Tagged With: New Jersey, nyc, Philadelphia, Stephen Smith

When will New Jersey reverse its sprawling ways?

October 8, 2010 By Stephen Smith

by Stephen Smith New Jersey has always been an odd state – it's the most densely populated of the fifty, and yet it lies just outside of the core of both of its metro areas (Philadelphia and New York). North Jersey does have a formidable number of mid-sized cities, but the biggest – Newark - is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, sprawl Tagged With: density, inclusionary zoning, New Jersey, Philadelphia, sprawl, Stephen Smith, transit

New empirical evidence that parking minimums encourage sprawl

August 23, 2010 By Stephen Smith

by Stephen Smith Although we at Market Urbanism are big fans of Donald Shoup's work on parking minimums, we have to admit that rigorous econometric evidence that parking minimums mandate more parking than the market would otherwise supply has been a bit lacking. Randal O'Toole at The Antiplanner … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parking, sprawl Tagged With: parking, Stephen Smith, tyler cowen

Must Read: The Demand Curve for Sprawl Slopes Downward

August 17, 2010 By Adam Hengels

Sandy Ikeda's latest article at FEE's "The Freeman" is a great summary of the libertarian sprawl debate. There has been a lot of Internet chatter lately about what libertarians ought to think about urban sprawl and its causes, including pieces by Kevin Carson, Austin Bramwell, Randal O’Toole, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Free-market impostors, parking, planning, sprawl, Transportation, Zoning Tagged With: sprawl, zoning

O’Toole Under More Fire

June 4, 2009 By Adam Hengels

At Streetsblog, Ryan Avent presented a scorching attack on the most notorious free-market impostor - Randal O’Toole: Taking Liberties With the Facts for his consistent hypocrisy: The Cato Institute's Randal O’Toole gets under the skin of many of those interested in building a more rational and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free-market impostors, infrastructure, sprawl, Transportation Tagged With: gas tax, Randal O'Toole, subsidization, Transportation

Are You a Wright or Friedman Urbanist?

May 20, 2009 By Adam Hengels

In a post blogger Eric Orozco called, ‘forerunner candidate for "most incisive blog post" of the year,’ Daniel Nairn of Discovering Urbanism discussed the seemingly conflicted camps of libertarianism when it comes to Urbanism.  His observations are based upon the comments in the Volokh article on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Free-market impostors, planning, sprawl Tagged With: Frank Lloyd Wright, libertarian, milton friedman, Randal O'Toole

Do We Need “New Urbanism” To Fix “Unwalkable Sprawl”?

May 13, 2009 By Adam Hengels

At Volokh, Ilya Somin discusses a recent piece in the American Prospect (also linked from here) that favors “New Urbanism” to prevent “unwalkable” sprawl.  Somin favors “voting with your feet” as the preferred method of satisfying location preferences.  Unfortunately, voting options have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, planning, sprawl, Zoning Tagged With: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning

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