Market Urbanism was featured in Sandy Ikeda's NY Sun blog "Culture of Congestion": More Kindred Spirits: Mitchell Moss and "Market Urbanism" Blog. If you don't already, I recommend subscribing to "Culture of Congestion". Thanks Sandy! … [Read more...]
Cuba Grants Limited Property Rights to Farmers
Cuba reforms turn to state land Cuba is to put more state-controlled farm land into private hands, in a move to increase the island's lagging food production. Private farmers who do well will be able to increase their holdings by up to 99 acres (40 hectares) for a 10-year period that can be … [Read more...]
Abandoned Cities
Here's a link to a very interesting article at weburbanist.com with photos of 20 abandoned cities and towns around the world - 20 Abandoned Cities from Around the World: Deserted Towns and Other Derelict Places … [Read more...]
Social Networking With Market Urbanism
Last week, a reader submitted a Market Urbanism post to Reddit, a social networking site. The submission generated quite a bit of traffic from the economics category on Reddit. It was #3 on the hot list for economics for a while that day. Seeing what kind of traffic that can be generated from … [Read more...]
Cubs Fail to Sell Wrigley to State (100 years of faith for sale)
I received a message from a reader with a link: Probably not as interesting to your NY readers, but Wrigley is back on the market. Can't say I like the cubs, but you have to give credit (?) to their fans, 100 years of painful loss and they still love the cubs. I'm guessing most of the fans would … [Read more...]
California’s Water Resources vs Development
There are some good articles out there this morning, I want to share them with you... Rationalitate - California developments halted over water While the knee-jerk libertarian reaction might be disgust, I think the markets are probably ruined by the government, and current pricing isn't what … [Read more...]
New Feature: Threaded Comments
I added a new feature thanks to suggestions from Freshy SEO. Comments are now threaded, so you can reply directly to another commenter. Let me know what you think, or if you have any problems. … [Read more...]
Friday Humor: White People in Portland
Loyal reader, Bill tipped me off to this blog and I've subscribed to the feed ever since. Today's post was particularly relevant: White People in the News - May 30, 2008 Isn't this photo classic? The comments on the blog are always fun to read too... … [Read more...]