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Sunday links

October 10, 2010 By Stephen Smith

1. Planners in the Twin Cities have decided to "back away from the age-old compact in which the state tries to keep pace with suburban expansion" (i.e., they're canceling new outer road projects) and add toll/bus lanes to highways in the inner metro area. Republican governor and business on one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: dc, highways, nyc, Philadelphia, Stephen Smith, Twin Cities

Cap’n Transit comes out of the closet as a market urbanist

October 10, 2010 By Stephen Smith

...sort of. He never quite cops to it, but he says he "appreciates" libertarianism's arguments (unlike some people), and gives this great summary of what we here call the market urbanist narrative: In the past, private companies ran the trains, interurbans, trolleys and buses. They were usually … [Read more...]

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Friday links

October 8, 2010 By Stephen Smith

1. Miller-McCune (what a bad name for a magazine) has an article about a possible VMT tax, and points out that more fuel-efficient vehicles will lead to less gas tax revenue.2. Streetsblog has an extremely unflattering profile of Republican nominee for NY Governor Carl Paladino. He made a name … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Colombia, gas tax, inclusionary zoning, links, Los Angeles, new york, public housing, Stephen Smith, subprime, Vancouver

When will New Jersey reverse its sprawling ways?

October 8, 2010 By Stephen Smith

by Stephen SmithNew Jersey has always been an odd state – it's the most densely populated of the fifty, and yet it lies just outside of the core of both of its metro areas (Philadelphia and New York). North Jersey does have a formidable number of mid-sized cities, but the biggest – Newark - is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, sprawl Tagged With: density, inclusionary zoning, New Jersey, Philadelphia, sprawl, Stephen Smith, transit

A comment on NYU’s proposed superblocks

October 7, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Benjamin Hemric left an interesting comment about my remark about NYU's expansion plans in Greenwich Village. First of all, I should admit that I was lazy and got NYU's plans totally wrong – they are going to add towers to the three that I. M. Pei already built, not tear them down, and they're … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning Tagged With: density, nyc, Stephen Smith

New York City links

October 6, 2010 By Stephen Smith

There are a couple of NYC-related links that I've been saving up, so here they are:1. Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor of Indiannapolis and NYC's new deputy mayor, appears to be interested in privatizing New York City's parking meters in order to balance the city's budget. We're more interested … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: links, nyc, parking, Stephen Smith, zoning

Zoning blighted Manhattanville before Columbia did

October 6, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Something that always annoyed me about discussions of the state of Manhattanville and Columbia's blight study is the fact that they usually leave out restrictive zoning as the original sin. We're certainly no fans of eminent domain or Columbia's plans for the West Harlem neighborhood, and while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning, zoning Tagged With: inclusionary zoning, nyc, parking, Stephen Smith, zoning

More urban planning mismeasurement

October 3, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Apparently I'm not the only one thinking about urban mismeasurement, because the planning blogosphere is lighting up with examples. In addition to my critique of per passenger-mile measurements and the aforelinked critique of average density (and the great follow-up post here), I've noticed two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: congestion, Environment, Stephen Smith

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