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A Guide to Urban Development [Guia de Gestão Urbana]

May 10, 2017 By Jeff Fong

Caos Planejado, in conjunction with Editora BEI/ArqFuturo, recently published A Guide to Urban Development (Guia de Gestão Urbana) by Anthony Ling. The book offers best practices for urban design and although it was written for a Brazilian audience, many of its recommendations have universal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Development, Economics, housing, infrastructure, planning, Policy, privatization, Transportation, Uncategorized, zoning Tagged With: Brazil, infrastructure, mobility, policy, zoning

Richard Florida and Market Urbanism

May 1, 2017 By Michael Lewyn

I just finished reading Richard Florida's new book, The New Urban Crisis.  Florida writes that part of this "crisis" is the exploding cost of housing in some prosperous cities.  Does that make him a market urbanist?  Yes, and no.On the one hand, Florida criticizes existing zoning laws and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, NIMBYism, zoning Tagged With: RIchard Florida, skyscrapers, zoning

Towards A Liberal Approach To Urban Form

March 29, 2017 By Nolan Gray

It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.— Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty Imagine the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, Jane Jacobs, planning Tagged With: austrian economics, Frank Lloyd Wright, Friedrich Hayek, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier, liberalism, urban form, urban planning theory, zoning

Yglesias Gives Best Tweetstorm Ever

February 27, 2017 By Michael Lewyn

Matthew Yglesias has a group of tweets that begin with this:Someone needs to give me an Oscar one of these years so I can subject America to a tedious discussion of land use regulation. — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 27, 2017"In the movies, there is no minimum lot size or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: zoning Tagged With: oscars, zoning

Same Old Story: How Planners Continue to Drive Gentrification

December 12, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Slum clearance in action

 Planners, like all professions, have their own useful mythologies. A popular one goes something like this: “Many years ago, us planners did naughty things. We pushed around the poor, demolished minority neighborhoods, and forced gentrification. But that’s all over today. Now we protect the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gentrification, planning, zoning Tagged With: Dallas, gentrification, small business, Texas, zoning

Kotkin And The Atlantic- Spreading ‘Localism’ Nonsense Together

November 1, 2016 By Michael Lewyn

The Atlantic Magazine's Citylab web page ran an interview with Joel Kotkin today.  Kotkin seems to think we need more of something called "localism", stating: "Growth of state control has become pretty extreme in California, and I think we’re going to see more of that in the country in general, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free-market impostors, housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, zoning Tagged With: localism, zoning

NIMBYism as an Argument Against Urbanism

September 26, 2016 By Michael Lewyn

In his new book The Human City, Joel Kotkin tries to use NIMBYism as an argument against urbanism.  He cites numerous examples of NIMBYism in wealthy city neighborhoods, and suggests that these examples rebut "the largely unsupported notion that ever more people want to move 'back to the city'." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free-market impostors, housing, NIMBYism, Policy, zoning Tagged With: housing, kotkin, NIMBY, zoning

How Houston Regulates Land Use

September 19, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Uptown Houston

If you regularly read about cities, you might notice that Texas cities rarely seem to come up. We make cases for why Detroit is definitely coming back—just you wait! We come up with elaborate theories of how cities can become the next Silicon Valley. We spend hours coming up with a solution to New … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning Tagged With: Houston, land-use regulation, planning, restrictive covenants, Texas, zoning

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