• About
    • What Should I Read to Understand Zoning?
  • Market Urbanism Podcast
  • Adam Hengels
  • Stephen Smith
  • Emily Hamilton
  • Jeff Fong
  • Nolan Gray
  • Contact

Market Urbanism

Liberalizing cities | From the bottom up

“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.

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Linkedin
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Podcast
  • Economics
  • housing
  • planning
  • Transportation
  • zoning
  • Urban[ism] Legends
  • How to Fight Gentrification
  • Culture of Congestion by Sandy Ikeda
  • What Should I Read to Understand Zoning?

The Paper of Record Gets Yorkville Wrong

August 27, 2019 By Michael Lewyn

Even the most supposedly reputable mainstream media is often less than careful in its coverage of housing issues. For example, a few weeks ago the New York Times ran an article on the Upper East Side's Yorkville neighborhood, implying that high-rises are "erasing their community's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn Tagged With: high-rises, new york, upper east side, yorkville

Learning from Astor Street

July 22, 2019 By Michael Lewyn

One common argument against mixing housing types and densities is that if housing type A (for example, townhouses or single-family homes) is mixed with housing type B (for example, condos), the neighborhood will somehow be "ruined" for residents of the less dense housing types.Last week, my new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, Places & Spaces Tagged With: Chicago, condox, mixed use

The Low-Key Housing Politics of Spider-Man

July 17, 2019 By Nolan Gray

With Spider-Man: Far From Home hitting theaters earlier this month, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has taken one of the series’ biggest risks yet: pulling Spider-Man out of New York City. The gravity of this decision is baked into the film’s title — with good reason. More than any other Marvel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, housing Tagged With: affordability, housing, marvel, New York City, queens, spider-man, Urban Planning

The Truth About “Red Vienna”: Its a YIMBY Paradise!

June 29, 2019 By Michael Lewyn

One common leftist argument against new housing is the "Red Vienna" argument: the claim that housing can only be affordable in places where the government dominates the housing market. Supporters of this claim like to mention Vienna, where (according to progressive lore) Big Brother builds lots and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, Places & Spaces, Uncategorized Tagged With: housing, vienna

A Desire for Density

June 19, 2019 By Dan Keshet

A desire path in Tottenham, England.

Political controversies over building new homes, shops, and offices have long revolved around an axis of "neighborhood vs developer." Depending on your perspective, the "neighborhood" side was either the feisty underdogs looking to maintain the character of the neighborhood they love or the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chris Bradford, Dan Keshet, Economics, housing, zoning Tagged With: density, housing, Market, Market Urbanism

The Storper paper: not exactly a bombshell

May 9, 2019 By Michael Lewyn

Some commentators are slightly agog over an academic paper by Andres Rodrieguz-Pose and Michael Storper; Richard Florida writes that they shows that " the effect of [housing] supply has been blown far out of proportion. "Most of this paper isn't really about the effect of housing supply on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification, housing Tagged With: gentrification, housing, zoning

High-Rises and Street Life

April 17, 2019 By Michael Lewyn

One common argument against tall buildings is that they reduce street life, because the most expensive high-rises have gyms and other amenities that cause people to stay inside the buildings rather than using the street.  Because Manhattan has plenty of high-rises and plenty of street life, I have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn Tagged With: height, street life, walkability

Homeownership and the Warren Housing Bill

April 14, 2019 By Emily Hamilton

Elizabeth Warren’s housing bill has received a lot of love from those who favor of land use liberalization. Like Cory Booker’s housing bill, the Warren bill would seek to encourage state and local land use reform using federal grants as an incentive. Warren’s bill would significantly increase … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Law, Policy Tagged With: elizabeth warren

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • …
  • 28
  • Next Page »

Market Urbanism Podcast

Connect With Us

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Linkedin
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Recent Posts

  • How big is the housing shortage?
  • Is Tokyo comparable to U.S. cities?
  • Long-term renters ARE short-term renters (maybe)
  • Book Review: Arbitrary Lines – How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
  • Unpacking Emergent Tokyo with author Jorge Almazán
  • Book Review: The Making of Urban Japan
  • Review: Homelessness is a Housing Problem
  • Land Value Taxation and Intertemporal Tradeoffs
  • Entrepreneurs and the Changing Political Economy of Housing
  • Protecting Housing Affordability by Protecting the Right to Build Housing
  • Reasons to be a Census skeptic
  • Are there places in America with diversity *and* equality?
My Tweets

Market Sites Urbanists should check out

  • Cafe Hayek
  • Culture of Congestion
  • Environmental and Urban Economics
  • Foundation for Economic Education
  • Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
  • Marginal Revolution
  • Mike Munger | Kids Prefer Cheese
  • Neighborhood Effects
  • New Urbs
  • NYU Stern Urbanization Project
  • Parafin
  • Peter Gordon's Blog
  • Propmodo
  • The Beacon
  • ThinkMarkets

Urbanism Sites capitalists should check out

  • Austin Contrarian
  • City Comforts
  • City Notes | Daniel Kay Hertz
  • Discovering Urbanism
  • Emergent Urbanism
  • Granola Shotgun
  • Old Urbanist
  • Pedestrian Observations
  • Planetizen Radar
  • Reinventing Parking
  • streetsblog
  • Strong Towns
  • Systemic Failure
  • The Micro Maker
  • The Urbanophile

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2022 Market Urbanism