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Urban[ism] Legend: Creating Jobs With Infrastructure

December 8, 2008 By Adam Hengels

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)Last week … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment, sprawl, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends Tagged With: Barack Obama, carbon, Henry Hazlitt, infrastructure, Market, stimulus, subsidization, Urbanism

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

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