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Any Green New Deal Must Tackle Zoning Reform

January 24, 2019 By Nolan Gray

With the Democrats scrambling to come up with a legislative agenda after their November takeover of the House of Representatives, an old idea is making a comeback: a “Green New Deal.” Once the flagship issue of the Green Party, an environmental stimulus package is now a cause de celebre among the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: infrastructure, Policy, sprawl, Transportation, zoning Tagged With: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, green metropolis, green new deal, minneapolis, solar panels, wind turbines, zoning

“Order Without Design”, a new guide to urban planning

December 5, 2018 By Anthony Ling

This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding. This is how Jane Jacobs opened her 1961 classic “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”. It wouldn’t be an inappropriate opener for Alain Bertaud’s upcoming “Order Without Design”.While Jacobs was an observer of how cities … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Economics, housing, planning, Policy, Transportation, zoning Tagged With: alain bertaud, books, order without design

Two Cheers for PHIMBY

November 20, 2018 By Michael Lewyn

One alternative to market urbanism that has received a decent amount of press coverage is the PHIMBY (Public Housing In My Back Yard) movement.  PHIMBYs (or at least the most extreme PHIMBYs) believe that market-rate housing fails to reduce housing costs and may even lead to gentrification and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, zoning Tagged With: PHIMBY, public housing

Why Do We Hate Developers?

September 26, 2018 By Nolan Gray

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Earlier this year, researchers Paavo Monkkonen and Michael Manville at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) conducted a survey of 1,300 residents of Los Angeles County to understand the motives behind NIMBYism. As part of the study, they presented respondents with three common … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, housing, zoning Tagged With: developers, Donald Trump, homevoter hypothesis, michael manville, nimbyism, paavo minkkonen, real estate, ucla, William Fischel

New Video: How Zoning Laws Are Holding Back America’s Cities

September 13, 2018 By Nolan Gray

It's an understatement to say that zoning is a dry subject. But in a new video for the Institute for Humane Studies, Josh Oldham and Professor Sanford Ikeda (a regular contributor to this blog) manage to breath new life into this subject, accessibly explaining how zoning has transformed America's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, housing, Jane Jacobs, parking, planning, zoning Tagged With: institute for humane studies, Jane Jacobs, josh oldham, minimim lot sizes, modernist planning, robert moses, San Francisco, sandy ikdea, segregation, single-family zonign, St. Louis, Urban Planning, zoning

Light and Air, Sound and Fury; or, Was the Equitable Life Building Panic Only About Shadows?

September 6, 2018 By Nolan Gray

Equitable Life Building from the street. It's imposing!

When I first became interested in urban planning, I believed a piece of professional mythology that went like this: “For all its faults, Euclidean zoning was a well-meaning effort to expand nuisance regulation in the face of the urban industrialization. It was later practitioners who used zoning for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, NIMBYism, planning, zoning Tagged With: equitable life building, landlords, New York City, nuisance, shadows, zoning

California Legislation Threatens to Become Law and Build More Housing

September 5, 2018 By Martha Ekdahl

BART train at the platform

On August 23rd, a California assembly bill aimed at increasing transit-oriented development, like housing, was passed by the state senate, confirmed by the assembly, and headed to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk for signing. The bill, AB 2923, specifically targets the San Francisco Bay Area—making it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, infrastructure, Transportation, zoning Tagged With: ab 2923, BART, Bay Area, San Francisco

Two cheers for subsidized housing

August 22, 2018 By Michael Lewyn

A pure libertarian might argue that in an ideal world, there'd be no need for government-subsidized housing for low- and moderate-income households.  Nevertheless, it seems to me that in the world we actually live in, even people generally opposed to the welfare state should favor more such … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, zoning Tagged With: affordable housing, public housing

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