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Towards A Liberal Approach To Urban Form

March 29, 2017 By Nolan Gray

It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.— Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty Imagine the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, Jane Jacobs, planning Tagged With: austrian economics, Frank Lloyd Wright, Friedrich Hayek, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier, liberalism, urban form, urban planning theory, zoning

Urban Design and Social Complexity

September 20, 2016 By Sandy Ikeda

This week’s column is drawn from a lecture I gave at the University of Southern California on the occasion of the retirement of urban economist Peter Gordon.One of my heroes is the urbanist Jane Jacobs, who taught me to appreciate the importance for entrepreneurial development of how public … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Author: Sandy Ikeda, Jane Jacobs, planning Tagged With: eminent domain, Friedrich Hayek, Jane Jacobs, nyc, planning

Y-Combinator, Tech, and “New Cities”

June 30, 2016 By Adam Hengels

Monday, Y-Combinator, an early-stage technology startup incubator, announced it will “study building new, better cities.” Some existing cities will get bigger and there's important work being done by smart people to improve them. We also think it’s possible to do amazing things given a blank slate. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, planning, zoning Tagged With: development, Friedrich Hayek, Hayek, tech, technology

Market Urbanism MUsings: February 26, 2016

February 26, 2016 By Adam Hengels

1. This week at Market Urbanism:Nolan Gray contributed a post Who Plans?: Jane Jacobs’ Hayekian critique of urban planning discussing Jacobs' three arguments against central planning: Hayek and Jacobs defended the importance of local knowledge, illustrated the power of decentralized planning, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MUsings Tagged With: Chicago, Detroit, eminent domain, filtering, Friedrich Hayek, Jane Jacobs, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, San Francisco

Who Plans?: Jane Jacobs’ Hayekian critique of urban planning

February 21, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Cities are fantastically dynamic places, and this is strikingly true of their successful parts, which offer a fertile ground for the plans of thousands of people.- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities For most of the field’s history, prominent urban planning theorists have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, planning Tagged With: Ebenezer Howard, Friedrich Hayek, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier, spontaneous order

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