Over at Pedestrian Observations, Alon Levy has a typically well-written and researched post on the gentrification of poverty. He explores the well-researched trend that low-income Americans are increasingly moving to the suburbs as gentrification is driving up rents in inner cities. He hypothesizes … [Read more...]
Cities, Zoning, and Industry
D.C.'s Uline Arena – once a trash transfer station, now an indoor parking lot American cities have been on the rebound for about two decades now, with once moribund residential and commercial neighborhoods springing back to life. … [Read more...]
Spreading ideas through the urban process
I’m at the Living Cities 20th Anniversary today, liveblogging on the discussions that panelists are having here. This post, a little out of the vein of the topics we typically talk about at Market Urbanism, originally appeared at Next American City. Steven Johnson and Paula Ellis, of the John S. … [Read more...]
Capital markets for urban entrepreneurs
I'm at the Living Cities 20th Anniversary today, liveblogging on the discussions that panelists are having here. This post, a little out of the vein of the topics we typically talk about at Market Urbanism, originally appeared at Next American City. Patrick McCarthey of the Annie E. Casey … [Read more...]
Podcast with The Voluntary City
In July, Adam, Stephen, and I did a podcast with Jake from The Voluntary Life about the book The Voluntary City with Peter Gordon, one of the book's editors. We had an interesting discussion, including some debate about transportation funding and free market solutions for inner cities. The podcast … [Read more...]
Urbanist project selling well in Denver
The New York Times discusses a new building in Denver that embraces many of the ideals of transit-oriented development. The Spire is a mixed-use condo building that includes retail and recreation space along with residential units. Saqib Rahim explains: If they wish, the denizens of this mini-world … [Read more...]
Obama’s sprawl-promoting industrial policy: electric cars
During the past few decades, "industrial policy" was an epithet, and you still won't see Obama going around calling his "green jobs" projects industrial policy in speeches any time soon. But some think it's time to shed the stigma, and the flagship Obama industrial policy seems to be electric … [Read more...]
FRA interview
I'll (hopefully) be doing an interview with someone at the Federal Railroad Administration (probably a PR person, but since its via email, hopefully they'll be able to go ask bureaucrats and engineers the answers to some technical questions) for Streetsblog DC next week, so, if you've got any … [Read more...]
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