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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

Zoning as a Tool of Class Exclusion

August 22, 2009 By Stephen Smith

In regards to zoning, Discovering Urbanism has a nice post up about early 20th century urban planner Charles Mulford Robinson and his planning textbook.  It includes the following corrective to the notion that zoning originated as a way to separate polluting industry from places of residence and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, planning, zoning Tagged With: Charles Mulford Robinson, class conflict, planning, Stephen Smith, zoning

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

Do We Need “New Urbanism” To Fix “Unwalkable Sprawl”?

May 13, 2009 By Adam Hengels

At Volokh, Ilya Somin discusses a recent piece in the American Prospect (also linked from here) that favors “New Urbanism” to prevent “unwalkable” sprawl.  Somin favors “voting with your feet” as the preferred method of satisfying location preferences.  Unfortunately, voting options have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, planning, sprawl, zoning Tagged With: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning

Rothbard the Urbanist Part 1: Public Education’s Role in Sprawl and Exclusion

May 4, 2009 By Adam Hengels

I’ve been meaning to address the public education system’s complex role in land use patterns, and found that Murray Rothbard does a better job in his 1973 manifesto, For a New Liberty than I ever could.  In summary, locally-funded public education is an engine of geographical segregation, which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Rothbard The Urbanist, sprawl, zoning Tagged With: affordability, education, exclusionary zoning, For a New Liberty, Murray Rothbard, property taxes, public education, schools, suburbs, zoning

Stadtluft Macht Frei (city air makes one free)

March 17, 2009 By Adam Hengels

Thomas Schmidt wrote a great article for LewRockwell.com that covers a lot of urbanist ground, with some help from a broad selection of Jane Jacobs’ work.  Here’s a snippet: Though you might blame any number of obvious villains and historical processes for this, the name Ebenezer Howard would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning, zoning Tagged With: Euclid, history, Jane Jacobs, Thomas Schmidt, zoning

How to Sidestep FAR Restrictions: Mezzanine Floors

February 24, 2009 By Adam Hengels

Most municipalities use the Floor Area Ratio (F.A.R.) metric to restrict development within their communities.  F.A.R. is calculated by dividing the total floor area of a building by the area of the site it is built upon.  In achieving planners’ and neighbors’ questionable objective of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: zoning Tagged With: FAR, NY, Scarano, zoning

Urban[ism] Legend: The Myth of Herbert Hoover

February 12, 2009 By Adam Hengels

Herbert Hoover is not a man I consider a "Legend" - quite the contrary.  I use the words "Urbanism Legend" in the context of the series of posts intended to dispel popular myths as they relate to urbanism.Myths and fallacies about Herbert Hoover are abundant these days as the media discusses the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, planning, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning Tagged With: Euclidean, great depression, Herbert Hoover, highways, planning, progressivism, property rights, zoning

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