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Do cities have too much public space?

March 2, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

My sense is that parks and similar forms of public space tend to be far less controversial than housing or industry. But an interesting paper by Israeli architecture professor Hillel Schocken suggests that a city can have too much public space.He begins by asking: why do cities exist? He … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cities, public space, roads

Why another book about cities?

April 6, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

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The starting point for Jacobs’s analysis and the focus of much of her thought is the city, its nature and significance. There are plenty of books out there that in some way celebrate cities.  Many describe cities as engines of economic development, wellsprings of art and culture, and incubators of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Culture, Culture of Congestion, Economics, Jane Jacobs Tagged With: cities, emergence, Jane Jacobs, market process, spontaneous order

Book Review: The Public Wealth of Cities

January 5, 2018 By Jeff Fong

The Public Wealth of Cities by Dag Detter and Stefan Fölster proposes a series of reforms to improve municipal finances. The authors lay out guidelines for creating urban wealth funds (UWFs) and argue that financial stability is key to societal success. Detter and Fölster first call for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Policy, Uncategorized Tagged With: cities, finance

Ant Cities Don’t Have a Planning Department

February 2, 2009 By Adam Hengels

Ants are a lot like humans in some ways. Look what ants can achieve without any top down management:[hat tip: Cafe Hayek] … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning, video Tagged With: ant cities, ants, cities, planning

link: Medieval Cities

July 2, 2008 By Adam Hengels

I have little expertise in Medieval Cities and have little input, but thought it was interesting:Marginal Revolution - Medieval cities: Europe vs. the Arabic world also, Econlog - Producer and Consumer CitiesCities in the Arab world were on average much larger than those in Europe, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics Tagged With: cities, history, medieval cities

Journalists and Cities

June 30, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Here's a link to an interesting article by Scott Page at Planetizen called A Journalistic View of Cities Scott discusses how mainstream journalists are poorly equipped to write appropriately on urban issues aside from than architecture.I was reading the New York Times Magazine special … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning Tagged With: architects, architecture, cities, Jane Jacobs, journalism, master planning, planning, Urbanism

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