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Is NYC Building Enough Housing?
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 10/08/2013 - 1:11pmNew York city planning director Amanda Burden recently argued that there's not much more that the city can do to make housing more affordable, claiming that the city has given out 30,000 building permits per year, yet prices have failed to go down. But in fact, New York has built housing at a ... read more »
Park(ing) Day Tempe 2013 | Students for the New Urbanism @ ASU
Submitted by Mitchell Bobman on Mon, 10/07/2013 - 5:16pm
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Does smart growth regulation create price instability?
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 09/25/2013 - 10:09amOne argument I've seen in anti-smart growth literature is that regulation generally and/or smart growth-oriented regulation creates housing bubbles that lead to price instability.
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Reality Check on Urban Poverty
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 09/25/2013 - 8:48amI've read some stories suggesting that poverty is decreasing in cities and increasing in suburbs. Urbanists see this alleged trend as evidence that cities are becoming more popular; egalitarians see it as evidence that gentrification is driving the poor into suburbia.
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High-Speed Streets Cause Tragedy in Jacksonville
Submitted by MLewyn on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 11:37amLast Friday night, a woman and her daughter were struck by a car while crossing the street to attend Yom Kippur services in Jacksonville, Florida. The mother died instantly, the daughter was hospitalized.
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Why does a big re-zoning in a small town in the Columbia Gorge matter?
Submitted by Mary Vogel on Fri, 09/13/2013 - 12:42pm
Lacamas Northshore Development – PlanGreen in the News
September 12, 2013
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Exciting New Database
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 09/13/2013 - 9:17amThe Lincoln Institute of Land Policy just came out with a fun new database of fiscal information about cities. A few of the things I learned after playing around in the database for an hour:
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Reviewing A Review of "The End of the Suburbs"
Submitted by MLewyn on Mon, 09/09/2013 - 1:08pmIn the Wall Street Journal, Joel Kotkin pans Leigh Gallagher's "The End of the Suburbs." Generally, I don't consider a fight about whether cities or suburbs are winning the future to be of much interest; in reality, there are growing cities and growing suburbs, just as there are declining citi... read more »
Is Sprawl An Example of Libertarian Paternalism?
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 08/29/2013 - 10:38amOne widely-publicized attempt to find a middle ground between laissez-fair and overregulation is "libertarian paternalism": the idea that (in the words of New York Times columnist David Brooks), "Government doesn’t tell you what to do, but it gently biases the context so that you find it ea... read more »
Cities Can't Do Much Alone
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 1:12pmI am about halfway through the Metropolitan Revolution (by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley) and I can't help wondering: how much good can a city do? Of course, quite a bit- but only with a friendly (or at least non-hostile) state government. There are many, many things a state government... read more »