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Skyscrapers as Economic Indicators

August 26, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Ever hear of interesting economic indicators such as the correlation between the economy and length of skirts?  Here's one urbanists should appreciate: the skyscraper index, which shows strong correlation between the completion of world's tallest buildings and downturns in the business cycle.  Mark … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics Tagged With: Building, business cycles, construction, development, Dubai, Economics, macroeconomics, skyscrapers

Housing + Transportation Affordability Index

August 14, 2008 By Adam Hengels

affordability in New York CityPlay with the HUD-Brookings Institution's new index maps here:The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, developed by CNT and its collaborative partners, the Center for Transit Oriented Development (CTOD), is an innovative tool that measures the true … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing Tagged With: affordability, Chicago, CNT, development, housing, HUD-Brookings, nyc, Peter Gordon, transit

Glaeser on Affordability of NY vs Houston

July 17, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Harvard Economist Ed Glaeser wrote an opinion piece in the New York Sun about the differences in housing affordability and other costs of living between Houston and New York.New York is naturally more expensive than Houston because the geographical constraints force higher density development, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, zoning Tagged With: affordability, density, development, Economics, glaeser, Houston, nyc, zoning

New Research on the Economics of Green Buildings

July 10, 2008 By Adam Hengels

There is little reliable research into the economic returns of high-performance (green) features of buildings, but Professor John Quigley plans to release his groundbreaking research on the subject this Fall.I am very excited to learn this news, and will certainly look forward to reviewing the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Environment Tagged With: development, energy, Environmental, green, Haas, John Quigley, leed, research

Urban[ism] Legend: Greedy Developers

July 7, 2008 By Adam Hengels

greedy developers

This post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it's a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that)We've all heard it said … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning Tagged With: developer, development, Economics, Free-market, greed, Henry Hazlitt, neighorhood, NIMBY, Urban[ism] Legends

How to Obscure Reality to Make Planners Seem Important

June 30, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Regular reader, Bill forwarded this article from the New York Daily News calling it an "outstanding collection of anti-density and anti-market propaganda presented (as always) as objective journalism." The article is riddled with misconceptions (aka Urbanism Legends) about zoning and development … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning, zoning Tagged With: density, development, nyc, parking, planners, Transportation, Urbanism, zoning

Socialist Cities

June 13, 2008 By Adam Hengels

So, you think the planners in your area are taking something a little too far? Be glad you aren't in Venezuela...I wish I could link to the article by Michael Mehaffy in The Urban Land Institute's May edition of Urban Land titled "Venezuela's New Socialist Cities", but ULI doesn't provide the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, planning Tagged With: capitalism, City, development, Environment, hugo chavez, planning, socialist cities, Urbanism, venezuela

Want Density? Turn the Free Market Loose

June 10, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Matthew Yglesias - What Price Density The solution, as Ryan Avent says, is to build denser communities. We ought to build more transit infrastructure, of course, but it's cheaper to use what we already have more intensively. And, of course, it's more practical to build new infrastructure if there's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Transportation, zoning Tagged With: Building, congestion, construction, density, development, Free-market, housing, infrastructure

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