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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

Density Is How the Working Poor Outbid the Rich for Urban Land

February 5, 2018 By Nolan Gray

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The great failing of modern land-use regulation is the failure to allow densities to naturally change over time. Let me explain.Imagine you are trying to sell a property you own in a desirable inner suburban neighborhood in your town. The lot is 4,000 square feet and hosts an old 4,000 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, zoning Tagged With: alain bertaud, density, louisville, real estate, Urban Economics, zoning

Zoning Laws, the Housing Market and the Ripple Effect

December 28, 2017 By George Leef

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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 CarsonThis 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 Rent is Too High and the Commute is Too Long: We Need Market Urbanism

November 27, 2017 By Andrew Criscione

Why is the rent so damn high? And why does it take hours to commute from cheap, plentiful housing to modern economy jobs? If you are living in a big city in America, you likely face this problem. And it isn’t just an American problem: From Ireland to New Zealand to The Philippines, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Transportation

Cities Should Not Design for Autonomous Vehicles

November 13, 2017 By Michael Hamilton

Coauthored with Emily HamiltonLast week, the autonomous vehicle company Waymo began testing cars in Chandler, AZ with no employees sitting in the front seat. While Waymo is busy creating systems of vehicle-mounted sensors that allow cars to safely navigate existing urban infrastructure and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, planning, Transportation

Does Density Raise Housing Prices?

November 1, 2017 By Michael Lewyn

My last post, on urban geographic constraints and housing prices, led to an interesting discussion thread.  The most common counter argument was that because dense cities are usually more expensive, density must cause high cost.  But if this was true, cities would become cheaper as they became less … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Michael Lewyn, sprawl Tagged With: density, rent

Exempting Suburbia: How suburban sprawl gets special treatment in our tax code

September 19, 2017 By Devon Zuegel

This is the third post in a series about government policies that encouraged suburban growth in the US. You can find the first part here and the second one here.Suburban sprawl gets preferential tax treatment in the US. As a result, it is cheaper to spend a dollar on housing than on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Policy, sprawl Tagged With: housing, suburbia, suburbs

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