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Hard Truths About Why Conservatives and Libertarians Hate Urbanism

November 20, 2010 By Stephen Smith

It's no secret that conservatives and libertarians don't have very warm feelings towards urbanism. But with their emphasis on upzoning and reducing parking minimums, shouldn't new urbanism and smart growth have at least some libertarian constituency? And given that local roads are paid for almost … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free-market impostors, Policy, sprawl Tagged With: conservatism, libertarianism, progressivism

Must Read: The Demand Curve for Sprawl Slopes Downward

August 17, 2010 By Adam Hengels

Sandy Ikeda's latest article at FEE's "The Freeman" is a great summary of the libertarian sprawl debate.There has been a lot of Internet chatter lately about what libertarians ought to think about urban sprawl and its causes, including pieces by Kevin Carson, Austin Bramwell, Randal O’Toole, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Free-market impostors, parking, planning, sprawl, Transportation, zoning Tagged With: sprawl, zoning

HSR Urbanists: “We Are All O’Tooles Now”

August 31, 2009 By Adam Hengels

I probably won't make any friends today, but now I’ve read one too many urbanist (many who’s ideas I usually respect) use unsound logic to support high speed rail. This argument often includes something like this: “…and furthermore, highways and airports don’t come close to paying for themselves, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Environment, Free-market impostors, infrastructure, Transportation Tagged With: airports, boondoggles, carbon, CATO, construction, cost-benefit analysis, high speed rail, highways, Matthew Yglesias, Randal O'Toole, ryan avent, Transportation, tyler cowen

O’Toole Under More Fire

June 4, 2009 By Adam Hengels

At Streetsblog, Ryan Avent presented a scorching attack on the most notorious free-market impostor - Randal O’Toole: Taking Liberties With the Facts for his consistent hypocrisy: The Cato Institute's Randal O’Toole gets under the skin of many of those interested in building a more rational and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free-market impostors, infrastructure, sprawl, Transportation Tagged With: gas tax, Highway, Randal O'Toole, subsidization, Transportation

Yglesias Has My Head Spinning…

May 29, 2009 By Adam Hengels

In his last two urbanism-related posts, Matthew Yglesias makes great points only to dissolve them in a vat of unrelated statements posed as conclusions.  His logical inconsistency seems to invalidate his otherwise pretty good blogging on urbanism.A couple days ago, Matthew blogged about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free-market impostors, planning, Transportation, zoning Tagged With: Matthew Yglesias, planning, Randal O'Toole, Transportation, zoning

Are You a Wright or Friedman Urbanist?

May 20, 2009 By Adam Hengels

In a post blogger Eric Orozco called, ‘forerunner candidate for "most incisive blog post" of the year,’ Daniel Nairn of Discovering Urbanism discussed the seemingly conflicted camps of libertarianism when it comes to Urbanism.  His observations are based upon the comments in the Volokh article on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Free-market impostors, planning, sprawl Tagged With: Ayn Rand, Frank Lloyd Wright, libertarian, milton friedman, Randal O'Toole

Redistribution (a follow up)

January 26, 2009 By Adam Hengels

I threw up Friday's Redistribution post somewhat hastily during my break, but there isn't much more that I haven't said before.  As a follow-up, I'd like to tie it in with some other interesting reads.Ryan Avent at The Bellows agreed with Yglesias' post and added: Anyway, I saw in Google reader … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Free-market impostors Tagged With: affordable housing, CATO, Ed Glaeser, Free-market, glaeser, highways, libertarian, progressivism, sprawl, Urbanism

Urban[ism] Legend: Positive NPV Infrastructure

January 12, 2009 By Adam Hengels

As Washington debates how many hundreds-of-billions of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus will go towards infrastructure or to other spending/tax cut schemes, pundits claim that spending billions on "shovel ready" public works projects can effectively create jobs that will lead to recovery. As … [Read more...]

Filed Under: corruption, Economics, Free-market impostors, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends Tagged With: boondoggles, budgets, construction, government, highways, infrastructure, paul krugman, roads, stimulus, Transportation, tyler cowen

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