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Market Urbanism MUsings: February 19, 2016

February 19, 2016 By Adam Hengels

1. This week at Market Urbanism:Shanu Athiparambath has his first post on the blog via Scott Beyer: Economist David Friedman Says India Must Go Taller to Make Homes Affordable I remember my father saying that when he visited India in the 1950s and 1960s, bureaucrats in Delhi made arguments for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MUsings Tagged With: David Friedman, India, london, Miami, Oklahoma City

London Planning Politics Breeds a Rare NIMBY Strain: Preventative Anti-NIMBY NIMBYism

October 24, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Ministry of NIMBYs is more like it! Talk about man-bites-dog: London’s Ministry of Sound, perhaps the world’s most famous nightclub, has gone on an all-out offensive against new residential skyscrapers near its home at Elephant & Castle, in Southwark. Their latest target is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: by Stephen Smith (Forbes), Places & Spaces Tagged With: london, regulation

How Europe Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Skyscraper

October 18, 2011 By Stephen Smith

I often hear from people who are defending Washington, D.C.’s height limit argue that the restriction gives the city a “European” feel. I disagree with this for a number of reasons – the city has much fewer historic downtown buildings, and the ones it does have are much younger … [Read more...]

Filed Under: by Stephen Smith (Forbes), Places & Spaces, Policy Tagged With: london, Paris, real estate, regulation, skyscrapers, washington dc

London congestion pricing, then and now

January 16, 2011 By Stephen Smith

It's already Sunday and I've exhausted my cache of unread blog posts from the week, so I went in search of new blogs to read and can across this really good one: Spatial Analysis. A post from December has this set of maps – private turnpikes in 18th century London and the congestion zone map in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: congestion pricing, history, london

Friday link list

January 7, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Expect a lot more of these...1. Beijing tries to relieve congestion by...building a quarter-million parking new spaces and 125 miles of new downtown streets?! But don't worry – bike sharing!2. Seattle inches closer to a Shoupian on-street parking policy, and Austin ponders charging for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin, China, congestion pricing, dc, density, london, nyc, parking, seattle, terrorism

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