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Cities and the Market Process: Part 1

October 25, 2011 By Emily Hamilton

In a post about the tendency for emergent urbanists to promote the idea of cities having a single equilibrium, Alon Levy recently wrote that collective choice is the best manner for determining urban form. Many urbanists accept that some of the top-down regulations that limit density or use are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning, Uncategorized

Death and life in a changing neighborhood

July 7, 2011 By Emily Hamilton

A controversy in DC's Columbia Heights neighborhood exemplifies the common clash between NIMBYism and the achievement of Jane Jacob's ideals. Some residents are opposed to a new proposed diner, Margot's Chair, that would be open 24 hours a day. The owners already have three well-loved restaurants in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Jane Jacobs, NIMBYism

Meetup before Sandy’s Jane’s Walk this Sunday

May 5, 2011 By Adam Hengels

From the comments and emails I've gotten, there will be a pretty decent turnout of Market Urbanists at Sandy Ikeda's Jane's Walk on Sunday, "Eye's on Brooklyn Heights." Here are the details from the site; Date: Sunday May 8, 2011 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Meeting Place: The tour will meet at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Jane Jacobs Tagged With: Author: Sandy Ikeda, brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Jane Jacobs

More Libertarians on Jane Jacobs

April 23, 2011 By Adam Hengels

The Ludwig von Mises Institute publishes a podcast performed by Jeff Riggenbach called "The Libertarian Tradition", which discusses significant figures in the libertarian movement.  The most recent edition is dedicated to Jane Jacobs, who's ideas are highly regarded by many libertarians, despite the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Economics, history, Jane Jacobs Tagged With: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Brooklyn Heights, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Riggenbach, Ludwig Von Mises, Thomas Schmidt

Even Jane Jacobs thought Houston doesn’t have zoning

January 22, 2011 By Stephen Smith

"Houston has no zoning" is a very popular urban planning meme. It has its roots in Houston's lacks one very specific kind of zoning: Euclidean separation of residential, commercial, and industrial uses. Euclidean zoning happens to be the one kind of planning that people easily understand (the whole … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Jane Jacobs, zoning Tagged With: Houston, Jane Jacobs

Why does the Infrastructurist hate libertarians so much?

August 25, 2010 By Stephen Smith

by Stephen SmithAmong urban planners, libertarianism gets a pretty bad rap. Melissa Lafsky at the Infrastructurist goes so far as to call libertarianism "an enemy of infrastructure," and dismisses entirely the idea that private industry can build infrastructure with a single hyperlink – to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation Tagged With: libertarianism, reason, Stephen Smith

Correction, Reason.org’s Plug, and Glaeser on Jacobs

September 6, 2009 By Adam Hengels

In the comments of my most recent post, insightful commenter, OldUrbanism pointed out some items that need attention: The last two factors, legal costs associated with eminent domain and opportunity costs of land, are in fact often included in typical project cost estimates for both public and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation Tagged With: correction, Ed Glaeser, Jane Jacobs, reason, robert moses, Sam Staley

Rothbard the Urbanist Part 5: Diversity and Discrimination

August 25, 2009 By Adam Hengels

This 5th installment of the Rothbard Series dovetails well with the most recent post on segregation by guest blogger, Stephen Smith, as well as a post back in July over at Austin Contrarian.  If you haven’t kept up with our discussion, Murray Rothbard’s classic For A New Liberty can be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Jane Jacobs, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist Tagged With: discrimination, diversity, For a New Liberty, Free-market, Jane Jacobs, Murray Rothbard, segregation, street cars

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