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Introducing Szymon Pifczyk

January 9, 2023 By Salim Furth Leave a Comment

New year, new ideas. Market Urbanism is proud to welcome Szymon Pifczyk as a new writer who will bring new perspectives to this ever-evolving blog. Szymon's Polish-language Twitter handle is @sheemawn, which is a pronunciation clue. His English-language account is the popular @YIMBYPoland.Here's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized, World Tagged With: Szymon

Wanted: Market urbanist research assistant

November 28, 2022 By Salim Furth

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Ever wondered how you could make your urbanism hobby a full-time job? Come work with me & Emily Hamilton at the Mercatus Center's Urbanity project:Are you a gritty, liberty-minded researcher who is passionate about cities? This is a unique opportunity for an aspiring scholar to develop a … [Read more...]

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Before YIMBY

October 6, 2022 By Salim Furth

In an encouraging post this morning, Matt Yglesias - one of the O.G. YIMBYs - summed up 10 years of success since his book, The Rent Is Too Damn High, was published. If you'd asked me, I'd have guessed that Too Damn High was published in 2015 or 2016, when YIMBY was in its infancy and researchers … [Read more...]

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Rent Control is How the Rich Outbid Less-Affluent People for Valuable Land

September 12, 2022 By Salim Furth

Several homes in my neighborhood have sold recently, each more expensive than the last. The priciest was a lovely home that drew $1.65 million at the peak of this spring's market.Takoma Park is a great place to live. It's also the only jurisdiction in the region that has rent control.As a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: rent control, Uncategorized, Urban[ism] Legends Tagged With: Maryland, rent control

Book Review: Arbitrary Lines – How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

June 20, 2022 By Jeff Fong

Arbitrary Lines is the newest must read book on zoning by land use scholar and Market Urbanism contributor, Nolan Gray. The book is split into three sections, starting with what zoning is and where it comes from followed by chapters on its varied negative effects, and ending with recommendations for … [Read more...]

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Unpacking Emergent Tokyo with author Jorge Almazán

May 25, 2022 By Salim Furth

In my previous post, I reviewed an old book on Japan while teasing a new one:If you read one book about Japan this year, it should be the beautiful, new Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City by Jorge Almazan and his Studiolab colleagues, including Joe McReynolds. But if you read … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Book Review, Culture & Books, Uncategorized, World City Profiles Tagged With: emergent urbanism, japan, tokyo

Book Review: The Making of Urban Japan

April 28, 2022 By Salim Furth

If you read one book about Japan this year, it should be the beautiful, new Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City by Jorge Almazan and his Studiolab colleagues, including Joe McReynolds. But if you read two books about Japan, as you should, the second one should be André Sorensen's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Culture & Books, Places & Spaces, planning, sprawl, Uncategorized, Urban[ism] Legends, World Tagged With: Andre Sorensen, japan, planning, tokyo

Land Value Taxation and Intertemporal Tradeoffs

April 18, 2022 By Jeff Fong

Georgists assert that a Land Value Tax (LVT) ensures land is always put to its most efficient use. They claim that increased carrying costs deter speculation. And if valuable land is never held out of use, society is better off.I think the story about incentives is correct. But I question … [Read more...]

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