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2026 29

  1. Paying for results
  2. Hot takes & pensées #UEA2026
  3. In conversation: Salim & Aziz
  4. Link: Atlas of Data Center Politics
  5. The 5% problem: Can human and automated drivers coexist?
  6. Build Now Act math & map
  7. Deed restricted
  8. What type of housing units are actually being built?
  9. A new paper on high-rise emissions
  10. Confusing demand with inequality
  11. More yachts than apartments
  12. Federal legislative history
  13. The DSB argument
  14. Which U.S. cities mix commercial and residential the most?
  15. Yes, homelessness is still a housing problem (even if some homeless are from out of state)
  16. Why No EuroYIMBYs?
  17. Review- Broken City
  18. Is infill more costly?
  19. Understanding Indian regs & reforms
  20. Vacancy chains – linked
  21. Mayors matter
  22. Paris density and aesthetic NIMBYs
  23. Plymouth, Indiana
  24. Can young Americans reinvent the starter home?
  25. Starter home reforms
  26. Supply skepticism lite
  27. You can’t win with new housing
  28. Aesthetics and NIMBYism
  29. Getting tax policy backwards

2025 38

  1. Are any cities becoming less car-oriented?
  2. Could NYC really build more without zoning?
  3. Saving streets without banning cars
  4. Congestion pricing (possibly) vindicated
  5. Why “you don’t deserve to live in New York” is no excuse for the status quo
  6. Official land prices
  7. Home prices rose everywhere
  8. Hot takes and Pensées, #UEA2025
  9. Transformation
  10. Under the flag of urbanity
  11. Douglas Schneider, DC’s anti-car pioneer
  12. Are NIMBYs appeasable? Often not
  13. The good old days weren’t so good
  14. Interactive maps – YIMBY policy across the states
  15. State Laws Legalizing Accessory Dwelling Units
  16. Mini-review: Chapters 2 and 3 of Wonder City
  17. Mini-review: Chapter 1 of Wonder City
  18. Benefits of the Purple Line Expansion in College Park
  19. An Anti-Development Manifesto
  20. YIMBY should not become a political party
  21. Why didn’t people sleep on the streets of US cities during World War II?
  22. Why isn’t urban containment a big deal anymore?
  23. Winning in Washington
  24. A Mass Eviction Mandate?
  25. A self-defeating argument
  26. Texas MUD
  27. North Carolina’s Surreal Housing Spring
  28. Digging deeper on natalism and urbanism
  29. Outside Montana, No Housing “Miracle” in the Mountain West This Year
  30. Resources for Reformers: Single-Stair Midrise Buildings
  31. Cities for families?
  32. Deep Research: Supermajority laws around the states
  33. Yes in God’s backyard… and yes up to three stories?
  34. Morton’s Fork and urbanism
  35. How much housing does Massachusetts build?
  36. Review: Key to the City, by Sara Bronin
  37. Snowy Sidewalks
  38. Let’s Talk About Soundview

2024 54

  1. Neutralizing the Objector Lawsuit
  2. Does your city do its part to measure housing production?
  3. Homelessness exits: Systems or individual factors?
  4. Housing filters (dorm / shelter edition)
  5. Decriminalizing Jaywalking: The Early Data
  6. Arlington Missing Middle lawsuit decision
  7. Agenda: Dynamic congestion pricing for autonomous vehicles
  8. A Case for Urban Renewal
  9. Master Classes
  10. Transit oriented development in Bengaluru could lead to additional $64 Million per year
  11. Hot takes and pensées, #UEA2024
  12. Where sale prices are going up
  13. Book Review: (de)Coding Mumbai
  14. Toward an Erdmann synthesis
  15. Congestion Pricing: Traffic Solver or Sin Tax?
  16. Stone: Diversity didn’t cause the baby bust
  17. Harris’ housing target: Compared to what?
  18. How much does delay cost?
  19. Urban Planners Overregulate Private Lots but Neglect the Design and Regulation of Public Spaces
  20. The 15-Minute City Is a Distracting Utopia
  21. Do People Travel Less In Dense Places?
  22. The Master Plan: An Obsolete Urban Management Tool
  23. Are we spiralling into a new dark age? | Analysis and review of Jacobs’ Dark Age Ahead
  24. Are New Cities Necessary?
  25. Lessons from Cities and the Wealth of Nations: a manual for urban policymakers
  26. Living on the edge
  27. Elevator pitch
  28. Swimming against the tide
  29. In Praise of Randomness
  30. Retrospective: Sites & Services
  31. Dataviz links: Over time, across space
  32. Lessons from Jane Jacobs on The Economy of Cities
  33. Can YIMBY policies cause large price declines?
  34. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Revisited
  35. The benefit-cost ratio of U.S. social housing
  36. “The traditional model”
  37. Review: Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
  38. Interrogating the Strong Towns “Ponzi Scheme”
  39. Mumbai upzoning
  40. Colorado housing reform wins in Round 2
  41. Responsive Cities in the arena: Brazil floods
  42. Is zoning unconstitutional?
  43. Market Affordable
  44. No Solutions, Just Tradeoffs
  45. Ruminating on Sheetz
  46. The sudden death of the American condo
  47. The urban economics of sprawl
  48. YIMBY wins again in Vermont
  49. And the Oscar for best paper goes to…
  50. Apples to apples housing cost comparisons
  51. Poor People Move Too
  52. Milton’s Zoning Referendum
  53. Houston as an Affordability Model
  54. Resources for Reformers: Houston’s minimum lot sizes

2023 36

  1. Hopefully, AI will create a perpetual housing crisis
  2. The weird D.C. housing grift that’s sending a former FBI agent to jail
  3. Unexpected correlation in Census housing data
  4. An Autopsy of Hsieh & Moretti (2019)?
  5. Court: Arlington “Missing Middle” Lawsuit May Proceed to Trial
  6. Tyler Cowen: “Is Tokyo really a YIMBY success story?”
  7. New Report: Georgia Not Quite an Unregulated Paradise
  8. traffic and development
  9. Rubbing Shoulders: Maybe
  10. Is there really a building boom? Not as much as you might think
  11. Pedestrianized streets usually fail – and that’s OK
  12. Solano County Dreamin’: Is there a market urbanist way to build a new city?
  13. Are Republicans or Democrats more pro-housing? Yes.
  14. Gentrification: An LVT Would Do That
  15. Will congestion pricing hurt cities?
  16. New Report on Massachusetts’s Building Code Confirms: It’s Harder to Build Energy-Efficient Housing When You Don’t Let People Build Anything
  17. Rhode Island’s housing process package
  18. Why lawyer salaries matter
  19. On coexistence
  20. Detroit: LVT would fix that
  21. Tell It to the Judge: New Lawsuits Take Exclusionary Zoning to Court
  22. What’s Scott Alexander asking, anyway?
  23. Cataloguing California’s Cornucopia of Land Use Legislation
  24. Another of these studies that don’t mean what some people thinks it means
  25. Rent regulation in MoCo
  26. Book Review: HIAHP
  27. Xiaodi Li, Misunderstood
  28. The Homeownership Society Can Be Fixed
  29. Do The Cities Need The Suburbs?
  30. Welcome Michael Nahas
  31. The fallacy of total rent regulation
  32. Should governments nudge land assembly?
  33. The conspiracy theory of rent increases
  34. Herbert Hoover reconsidered
  35. YIMBYs and liberals
  36. Introducing Szymon Pifczyk

2022 27

  1. Are the new carbon footprint maps accurate?
  2. Wanted: Market urbanist research assistant
  3. An Anti-Anti-NIMBY article
  4. Would the Vienna strategy work here?
  5. Louisville and density regulation
  6. Urban Paths “World” Cup
  7. Is affordability just, “You get what you pay for”?
  8. Before YIMBY
  9. Rent Control is How the Rich Outbid Less-Affluent People for Valuable Land
  10. How big is the housing shortage?
  11. Is Tokyo comparable to U.S. cities?
  12. Long-term renters ARE short-term renters (maybe)
  13. Book Review: Arbitrary Lines – How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
  14. Unpacking Emergent Tokyo with author Jorge Almazán
  15. Book Review: The Making of Urban Japan
  16. Review: Homelessness is a Housing Problem
  17. Land Value Taxation and Intertemporal Tradeoffs
  18. Entrepreneurs and the Changing Political Economy of Housing
  19. Protecting Housing Affordability by Protecting the Right to Build Housing
  20. Reasons to be a Census skeptic
  21. Are there places in America with diversity *and* equality?
  22. Do HOAs justify zoning?
  23. California should indeed build new cities – but don’t let Nathan J. Robinson anywhere near them
  24. Houston Impressions
  25. Where investors invest
  26. Why Should a Remote Worker Live in a City?
  27. More information about NYC “Billionaire’s Row”

2021 22

  1. Los Angeles is Dense, St. Louis is Varied
  2. The “outer boroughs” myth
  3. Getting to “Yes”
  4. Getting Hasidim and cars wrong- and what we can learn from this
  5. Confounding Diversity with Segregation Again
  6. The banks aren’t beating first time buyers – It’s the NIMBYs.
  7. Financialization and housing costs
  8. Reading Hayek in Holland
  9. Book review: Last Harvest
  10. Is Diversity “Segregation”?
  11. contradictory anti-housing arguments
  12. Local iniquity
  13. Book Review: The Housing Bias
  14. Why rents aren’t keeping up with house prices
  15. The Duplex: Gateway Drug to Urban Density
  16. Latest rent research
  17. Cyberpunk 2077’s Dystopian City Planning
  18. How YIMBYs used Ostrom to recruit conservatives
  19. Pop Culture Urbanism: What Twin Peaks Understands About NIMBYism
  20. California Housing Reform: 2021 Edition
  21. Why Houston Isn’t An Argument for Zoning
  22. What’s Wrong With Hong Kong?

2020 23

  1. The Urban Planning of the North Pole
  2. Are increased levels of homeownership good for affordability? No… and yes.
  3. yes, minimum parking requirements do limit development
  4. Opening Arlington up to Housing
  5. What’s a stickplex?
  6. How to Price Congestion: The Benefits of Dynamic Variable Tolling
  7. Get the tuck out of here
  8. In praise of fee simple ownership
  9. Stuck in the (Missing) Middle
  10. Survey: New Yorkers like Manhattan, the subway and more housing
  11. Mini-review: From Mobility to Accessibility
  12. How Developers Became Hollywood’s Favorite Villain
  13. The City Planning Behind Avatar: The Last Airbender
  14. The Amazing Housing Politics of Spider-Man
  15. The Limits of the Singapore Housing Model
  16. The “Renters Are Evil” Argument For Zoning
  17. Review: The Urban Mystique, by Josh Stephens
  18. More on Subways and COVID-19
  19. The “everybody left Manhattan” argument (updated 5-15 to reflect recent data)
  20. Automobiles Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
  21. Do cities have too much public space?
  22. Are Dollar Stores Wiping Out Grocery Stores?
  23. Even NIMBYs should be YIMBYs

2019 27

  1. For once I agree with the NIMBYs: please don’t turn my neighborhood into Dubai- because Dubai isn’t dense enough!
  2. More evidence that sunlight is no crisis
  3. The Paper of Record Gets Yorkville Wrong
  4. Why “Move to Boise” Is No Answer
  5. Learning from Astor Street
  6. The Low-Key Housing Politics of Spider-Man
  7. The Truth About “Red Vienna”: Its a YIMBY Paradise!
  8. A Desire for Density
  9. Interview with Onésimo Flores, Founder of Jetty
  10. The Carnegie Library Apple Store is Fine
  11. Market Urbanism MUsings May 11, 2019
  12. The Storper paper: not exactly a bombshell
  13. The Human Cost of Zoning in Indian Cities
  14. High-Rises and Street Life
  15. What Should I Read to Understand Zoning?
  16. Homeownership and the Warren Housing Bill
  17. Against Spot Text Amendments
  18. Democratic Candidates on Housing
  19. Why Is Japanese Zoning More Liberal Than US Zoning?
  20. A great new paper on how government fights walking
  21. Market Urbanism MUsings March 1, 2019
  22. Big Media Gets Big Buildings Wrong
  23. Evidence that home-sharing doesn’t raise rents
  24. Yimbyism: The Evolution of an Idea
  25. What Should YIMBYs Learn From 2018?
  26. New York State’s Property Tax Cap
  27. Any Green New Deal Must Tackle Zoning Reform

2018 58

  1. Market Urbanism MUsings December 7th 2018
  2. “Order Without Design”, a new guide to urban planning
  3. “Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities” Out Today
  4. New and Noteworthy: Randy Shaw’s Generation Priced Out
  5. Two Cheers for PHIMBY
  6. Market Urbanism MUsings November 16, 2018
  7. Rent Control Makes It Harder to Vote with Your Feet
  8. Three Policies for Making Driverless Cars Work for Cities
  9. Market Urbanism MUsings October 25, 2018
  10. The land price argument and why it fails
  11. Response to “Steelmanning the NIMBYs”
  12. Market Urbanism MUsings September 28, 2018
  13. Why Do We Hate Developers?
  14. Housing Still Suffers the Same Ills That Caused the Great Recession—Just Not the Ones You Think
  15. The Foreign Buyers Are Taking Over (Not!)
  16. New Video: How Zoning Laws Are Holding Back America’s Cities
  17. Light and Air, Sound and Fury; or, Was the Equitable Life Building Panic Only About Shadows?
  18. California Legislation Threatens to Become Law and Build More Housing
  19. No, this study does NOT support refusal to build housing
  20. Two cheers for subsidized housing
  21. Turn New York’s Speed Cameras Back On
  22. An interesting complementarity in a city: rich & poor
  23. How Should We Interpret Jane Jacobs?
  24. Why Autonomous Vehicles != Endless Sprawl
  25. does gentrification cause eviction?
  26. How Much Should We Blame Planners for Sprawl?
  27. Morton’s Fork and land use issues
  28. Ch. 1 What is a City?: Concluding thoughts & works cited
  29. The High Cost of Solar Mandates
  30. Ch. 1 What is a City?: Cities cannot be efficient
  31. The “Old People Need Cars” Argument- Myth or Fact?
  32. Ch. 1 What is a City?: What the tradoffs might look like
  33. Loving the Stranger- Not!
  34. The Case for Subsidizing Deed Restrictions
  35. The Attack on Airbnb
  36. new speech on market urbanism vs. new urbanism
  37. Ch. 1 What is a City?: Complexity and radical ignorance
  38. New Report by CMU and AHLA: The Case for Ending Parking Requirements in Downtown Los Angeles
  39. Three Lessons from Nashville’s Building Boom
  40. Ch. 1 What is a City?: What a city is not (and is)
  41. Ch. 1 What is a City?: Up close and personal
  42. Montaigne on Spontaneous Social Order
  43. What About Vancouver?
  44. Are Houston’s Deed Restrictions “Basically Zoning”?
  45. Cities are not man-made things
  46. Why another book about cities?
  47. Intro to Culture of Congestion
  48. what about singles?
  49. United against dynamism
  50. Why Walkable Cities Enjoy More Freedom
  51. new report on SROs
  52. The absence of gentrification causes displacement
  53. The Disillusionment of the American Planner, or How We Became Mark Brendanawicz
  54. Density Is How the Working Poor Outbid the Rich for Urban Land
  55. Urban Mobility and Innovation with Anthony Ling at Stanford Graduate School of Business
  56. Is Zoning Popular? Reevaluating the Evidence
  57. Mini review: Suburb, by Royce Hanson
  58. Book Review: The Public Wealth of Cities

2017 77

  1. Liberty Machines™
  2. Zoning Laws, the Housing Market and the Ripple Effect
  3. Mini review: Vanishing New York, by Jeremiah Moss
  4. The Distorting Effects of Transportation Subsidies
  5. The Rent is Too High and the Commute is Too Long: We Need Market Urbanism
  6. The Progressive Roots of Zoning
  7. “Curb Rights” at 20: A Summary and Review
  8. High Rents: Are Construction Costs the Culprit?
  9. Cities Should Not Design for Autonomous Vehicles
  10. Does Density Raise Housing Prices?
  11. Urban[ism] Legend: The “Geographically Constrained Cities” Fantasy
  12. The Role for State Preemption of Local Zoning
  13. Exempting Suburbia: How suburban sprawl gets special treatment in our tax code
  14. old posts
  15. Financing Suburbia: How government mortgage policy determined where you live
  16. Living Downtown: A Great Book for Market Urbanists
  17. Subsidizing Suburbia: A forgotten history of how the government created suburbia
  18. TILTs for Income Mobility
  19. NIMBY Contradictions
  20. How Suburban Parking Requirements Hold Back Downtown
  21. Congressional Housing Subsidies Won’t Lower DC Housing Prices, But Liberalizing Zoning Will
  22. (Not So) Infinite Demand
  23. More on “Empty Houses”
  24. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  25. People Over Process: Why Democracy Doesn’t Justify Exclusion
  26. Is Inclusionary Zoning Legal?
  27. COSMOS + TAXIS Issue on Jane Jacobs
  28. Empty Houses, part 2
  29. The “Empty House” Theory
  30. Rent Control Again
  31. YIMBYism: Its Not Just For Conservatives
  32. What makes Philadelphia so affordable?
  33. How Governments Outlaw Affordable Housing
  34. Market Urbanism Sessions at #FEEcon 2017
  35. An Attack on Market Urbanism
  36. A Guide to Urban Development [Guia de Gestão Urbana]
  37. Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup
  38. Sandy Ikeda’s “Eyes on Brooklyn Heights” Jane’s Walk this Sunday
  39. Market Urbanism MUsings May 3, 2017
  40. Richard Florida and Market Urbanism
  41. Government-Created Parking Externalities
  42. Market Urbanist Book Review: Cities and The Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs
  43. Market Urbanism MUsings March 31, 2017
  44. Building A Better BART
  45. Towards A Liberal Approach To Urban Form
  46. The Other Broken Window
  47. Market Urbanism Is Still Underrated
  48. Market Urbanism MUsings March 24, 2017
  49. The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities
  50. Conflicting Affordable Housing Policies
  51. Where The Permits Are
  52. Of Maps and Modernism
  53. The “Foreign Buyers” Argument
  54. Addressing Local Knowledge
  55. Market Urbanism MUsings March 3, 2017
  56. World City Profiles: European Villages Are Showcases Of Old Urbanism
  57. Governing The Traffic Commons
  58. Yglesias Gives Best Tweetstorm Ever
  59. Market Urbanism MUsings February 24, 2017
  60. Four Warnings For Los Angeles On Measures S
  61. World City Profiles: Ancient Rome Really Knew How To City
  62. Market Urbanism MUsings February 10, 2017
  63. My New Book On Market Urbanism
  64. Only In California: Twisting an Anti-Exclusionary Law To Rationalize Exclusion
  65. Market Urbanism MUsings February 3, 2017
  66. The Land Value Argument Against New Housing
  67. When NIMBYs Use Renters’ Health To Stop Rental Housing
  68. The Sheer Craziness Of New York City’s Rent Stabilization Mandates
  69. How To Finance A Sanctuary City
  70. Market Urbanism MUsings January 27, 2017
  71. The Disconnect Between Liberal Aspirations And Liberal Housing Policy Is Killing Coastal U.S. Cities
  72. If Landlords Can Profit, Homes Must Be Great Investments, Right?
  73. Market Urbanism MUsings January 13, 2017
  74. 7 Reasons To Oppose Los Angeles’ Neighborhood Integrity Initiative
  75. Burrowing Owls, Comic Books, and Telling Stories That Change the World
  76. The Rural Libertarian As A Historical Anomaly
  77. How Lexington Can Expand Affordable Housing (Without Touching the UGB)

2016 161

  1. Market Urbanism MUsings, December 30, 2016
  2. Are “Charter Cities” a Solution?
  3. Market Urbanism MUsings, December 23, 2016
  4. Is There a “Libertarian Architecture”?
  5. Market Urbanism MUsings, December 16, 2016
  6. Urban Mass Transit Out Of Suburban Sprawl
  7. Same Old Story: How Planners Continue to Drive Gentrification
  8. Market Urbanism MUsings, December 9, 2016
  9. China’s “Planned Capitalism” Kills Wealth
  10. Market Urbanism MUsings December 2, 2016
  11. Thoughts On Today’s Emily Hamilton Vs. Randal O’Toole Cato Discussion
  12. Private Neighborhoods And The Transformation Of Local Government
  13. Market Urbanism MUsings November 25, 2016
  14. One Reason Why Subsidies Aren’t the (Only) Solution
  15. The Urban Origins of Liberty
  16. Market Urbanism MUsings November 18, 2016
  17. The Psychological Consequences Of Rent Control
  18. Market Urbanism MUsings November 11, 2016
  19. Preservation At The Expense Of Liberty
  20. Market Urbanism MUsings November 4, 2016
  21. Kotkin And The Atlantic- Spreading ‘Localism’ Nonsense Together
  22. The Great Mind And Vision Of Jane Jacobs
  23. Collective Action Problems Are Similar For Land Use And Schools
  24. Market Urbanism MUsings October 28, 2016
  25. Episode 05: Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring on Vital Little Plans
  26. Donald Shoup Takes San Francisco
  27. ‘Who better to determine local needs than property owners and concerned citizens themselves?’
  28. Market Urbanism MUsings October 21, 2016
  29. The Invisible City
  30. Market Urbanism MUsings October 14, 2016
  31. Episode 04: Anthony Ling on Brazilian Cities and the Future of Transportation
  32. Markets As Cities
  33. Market Urbanism MUsings October 7, 2016
  34. Book Review: The Well-Tempered City
  35. Where Do Upzonings Happen?
  36. Spillovers: Knowledge, Beer, and Technology
  37. 4 Things Austin’s City Council Could Do Today To Fight The Housing Shortage
  38. Market Urbanism MUsings September 30, 2016
  39. You’re an Urbanist? Excellent. Why Aren’t You a Developer Yet?
  40. Joel Kotkin’s New Book Lays Out His Sprawling Vision For America
  41. Econ 101 And The Missing Middle
  42. The Demand Curve For Sprawl Slopes Downward
  43. NIMBYism as an Argument Against Urbanism
  44. Market Urbanism MUsings September 23, 2016
  45. Parking In A DC Bike Lane Is Extremely Cost-effective, For Drivers
  46. Episode 03: Sanford Ikeda on Jane Jacobs
  47. Urban Design and Social Complexity
  48. How Houston Regulates Land Use
  49. Market Urbanism MUsings September 16, 2016
  50. Airbnb Crowding Out Is A Symptom, Not A Cause Of Housing Shortages
  51. Urban[ism] Legend: A Home Is A Good Investment
  52. Visions of Progress: Henry George vs. Jane Jacobs
  53. Home-Sharing and Housing Supply
  54. The “Global Buyers” Argument
  55. Market Urbanism MUsings September 9, 2016
  56. Supply and Demand: A Response to 48hills
  57. Episode 02: Emily Hamilton on Land-Use Regulation and the Cost of Housing
  58. Are States Really The Solution To Urban Mismanagement?
  59. Shut Out: How Land-Use Regulations Hurt the Poor
  60. Market Urbanism MUsings September 2, 2016
  61. Can Housing Quotas Affect Demand For Housing?
  62. The Answer to Expensive Housing: Build More
  63. When It Comes to Walkability, Mexico City Is Miles Ahead
  64. Palo Alto: The Land of Too Many Jobs
  65. Market Urbanism MUsings August 26, 2016
  66. Episode 01: Announcing the Market Urbanism Podcast!
  67. How The Housing Market Works
  68. Cities And The Growth Of Our Collective Brain
  69. Market Urbanism MUsings August 19, 2016
  70. Parking Requirements Increase Traffic And Rents. Let’s Abolish Them.
  71. Buses and Trains: The Turtle and the Hare?
  72. Market Urbanism MUsings August 5, 2016
  73. Does Home-sharing Create Negative Externalities?
  74. Market Urbanism MUsings July 29, 2016 (100 years of NYC Zoning bonus links)
  75. NIMBYs Outdo YIMBYs In Organizing Ability
  76. 100 Years After Zoning In New York City, Government Dominates Land Use
  77. Market Urbanism MUsings July 22, 2016
  78. Tech for Housing: An Experiment in YIMBY Activism
  79. Quantifying the effects of California zoning rules
  80. Market Urbanism MUsings July 15, 2016
  81. Your Town Is A Financial Timebomb
  82. The Cato Institute Goes After Arbitrary Historic Preservation Laws
  83. Market Urbanism MUsings July 8, 2016
  84. Is Commercialism Making Cities Less Livable?
  85. Why The Tech Industry Should Care About Housing
  86. Middle Aged NIMBYs, Young YIMBYs
  87. Market Urbanism MUsings July 1, 2016
  88. How Realistic Are the Cities of Fallout?
  89. Y-Combinator, Tech, and “New Cities”
  90. ReasonTV on SF’s YIMBY Movement
  91. Do The Rich Cause High Rents?
  92. Market Urbanism MUsings June 24, 2016
  93. Lack of New Housing On The Westside Is Causing Gentrification Of East And South LA
  94. Market Urbanism MUsings June 17, 2016
  95. Three Lessons Public Transit Can Learn From Uber
  96. Are High-Rises More Expensive?
  97. Massachusetts Senate Passes Zoning Reform
  98. Market Urbanism MUsings June 11, 2016
  99. Keep Los Angeles Affordable By Repealing Proposition U
  100. Market Urbanism MUsings June 3, 2016
  101. Houston’s Beautiful (Yet Partial) Embrace of Market Urbanism
  102. Jane Jacobs And High-Rises
  103. Market Urbanism MUsings May 27, 2016
  104. How Los Angeles’ Rent Got So Damn High
  105. Market Urbanism MUsings May 20, 2016
  106. To Know Home-Sharing Is To Support It
  107. The Bottom-Up Urbanism Of Patrik Schumacher
  108. Densifying Transit Corridors Is Not Densifying Enough
  109. Exclusionary Zoning and “Inclusionary Zoning” Don’t Mix
  110. How Houston Can Grow Gracefully: Snow White And The Nine Dwarves
  111. Market Urbanism MUsings May 13, 2016
  112. Are Billionaires To Blame?
  113. Suburban Market Gardening
  114. Planning As A Question Of Scale
  115. High Rent Sucks. Let’s Build More Houses.
  116. Market Urbanism MUsings May 6, 2016
  117. Zoning, Buildings Codes, And Low-Quality Housing
  118. Taylor Swift Spurns Country Music’s Longtime Attitude Towards Cities
  119. Mercantilist logic and land-use regulation
  120. Market Urbanism MUsings April 29, 2016
  121. “Public Schools Only” Vouchers and Sprawl
  122. No, ‘New Urbanism’ And ‘Smart Growth’ Are Not The Same
  123. Market Urbanism MUsings April 22, 2016
  124. Market Urbanism Is Underrated
  125. Reclaiming “Redneck” Urbanism: What Urban Planners Can Learn From Trailer Parks
  126. Market Urbanism MUsings April 15, 2016
  127. Why No Micro-Apartments in Chicago?
  128. The Stealth Guide To Nimbyville
  129. Five Ways To Understand Food Trucks
  130. Supply-And-Demand Denial And Climate Change Denial
  131. So Much For The Foreign Oligarchs
  132. Market Urbanism MUsings April 8, 2016
  133. 9 Barriers To Building Housing In Central City Austin
  134. Urbanism In A Time Of Terror
  135. Autonomous Vehicles: Expect the Unexpected
  136. Rent Control Is Bad For Both Landlords And Tenants
  137. Market Urbanism MUsings April 1, 2016
  138. Why Does Houston Have Such A Great Restaurant Scene?
  139. Part II: The need for low-quality housing
  140. Vouchers, Sprawl and Trade-Offs
  141. Market Urbanism MUsings March 25, 2016
  142. Rothbard The Urbanist Part 7: Pricing Highways
  143. The need for low-quality housing
  144. Market Urbanism MUsings March 18, 2016
  145. Rent Control: A No-Win
  146. Liberate the Garage!: Autonomous Cars and the American Dream
  147. Market Urbanism MUsings March 11, 2016
  148. Protectionism Is Already Harming American Workers And Cities
  149. Market Urbanism MUsings March 4, 2016
  150. Market Urbanism MUsings: February 26, 2016
  151. Who Plans?: Jane Jacobs’ Hayekian critique of urban planning
  152. Market Urbanism MUsings: February 19, 2016
  153. Reforming Zoning in a Kludgeocracy
  154. Economist David Friedman Says India Must Go Taller To Make Homes Affordable
  155. Market Urbanism MUsings Feb 12, 2016
  156. Market Urbanism MUsings: Feb 5, 2016
  157. Return to Sender: Housing affordability and the shipping container non-solution
  158. Market Urbanism MUsings: Jan 29, 2016
  159. A Public-Private Shopping Mall
  160. A Smart City in Your Pocket: From top-down command centers to bottom-up app markets
  161. An interview with David Block-Schachter, Chief Scientist of Bridj

2015 25

  1. A response to Interfluidity
  2. The deal-making behind the Silver Line
  3. How land use regulations hurt the poor
  4. Smart city data and political opportunism
  5. Neither Public nor Private: Rethinking the Dichotomy
  6. Shell Games in NIMBYism
  7. Systemic bias against small scale development
  8. San Francisco Turned Sisyphus: Why the City Can’t Fix the Housing Crisis On its Own
  9. Urban Density, Mass Transit, and Uber
  10. Engineering in the dark
  11. Trickle-Down Housing Economics? Laying Reagan’s Ghost to Rest
  12. The History of Progressive Housing Policy
  13. Free parking isn’t free
  14. Urban Renewal in Philadelphia
  15. Market Fundamentalism in the Mission?
  16. What is wrong with “How to Make an Attractive City”
  17. Seamless Transit: Thoughts on the new report from SPUR
  18. Why Money for Schools Means No Permits For Housing
  19. Urban[ism] Legend: The Free Market Can’t Provide Affordable Housing
  20. The Right to the City
  21. Only 2 Ways to Fight Gentrification (you’re not going to like one of them)
  22. Filtering: Gentrification in Reverse
  23. How to Fix San Francisco’s Housing Market
  24. Interview with Alain Bertaud
  25. The benefits of the market in both infrastructure and urbanism

2014 21

  1. On the Mixing of Incompatible Uses and Incumbency
  2. The Case Against Rent Control
  3. BART, Josefowitz, and Mass Transit in the Bay
  4. Planned Manufacturing Districts: Planning the Life Out of Districts
  5. The Status of Smart Growth Regulation
  6. How Hong Kong Pulls Off Transit Oriented Development
  7. Why No One Drives to Work in Hong Kong
  8. The importance of driverless trains
  9. Six Shooters and Bullet Trains: High Speed Rail in Texas
  10. Historic preservation: Bad for neighborhood diversity
  11. How Land Prices Obviate the Need for Euclidean Zoning
  12. Glamour in streetscapes
  13. Parking is not a public good
  14. DC streetcar: Worse than nothing
  15. How Affordable Housing Policies Backfire
  16. Join us in Brooklyn for Jane’s Walk 2014
  17. Market Urbanist Meetup [Manhattan Edition] March 22, 2014
  18. Urbanism without government
  19. Culs de sac for safety?
  20. Los Angeles’ Pedestrian Environment
  21. Potential for Voluntary Infrastructure

2013 22

  1. The Use of Knowledge in Urban Development
  2. The Value of Walkability
  3. Book Review: Perverse Cities by Pamela Blais
  4. Local Greenhouse Gas Rules Likely to Backfire
  5. Why the Left and the Right Should Join Forces against Eminent Domain
  6. Chapter 9 Links
  7. Urban-Rural Political Alliances Hurt Cities
  8. Book Review: What Killed Downtown?
  9. Detroit’s art is not the key to its revival
  10. Homeownership and Financial Well-being
  11. Chief Resiliency Officers Versus Antifragility
  12. Newest Offering from Fundrise Goes Live on Monday
  13. Thoughts on The Power Broker and Government Roads
  14. NYC Market Urbanism Meetup Sunday, April 21
  15. Ranking State Land Use Regulations
  16. Shortfalls in non-profit disaster rebuilding
  17. Many Market Urbanist Elements in DC’s Zoning Rewrite
  18. Developer size and development patterns
  19. A Conversation about the Commonwealth of Belle Isle
  20. Car and Driver(less) Link List
  21. A Trial of Zoning
  22. Q&A with David Schleicher

2012 82

  1. Emergent Order in Cities and Markets
  2. Meetup this Saturday
  3. Irrelevant real estate trends
  4. Campaign season is over links
  5. Fields of Dreams in Tysons Corner
  6. A message to journalists and academics from George Haikalis
  7. A Moral Case for More Immigration
  8. The Renewed Debate on Inclusionary Zoning
  9. From the experts on charter cities
  10. Opportunity for States to Protect Land Use
  11. Urban Development in Charter Cities
  12. David Gunn on Amtrak’s $151bn NEC plan and how he rebuilt the Harrisburg line
  13. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Centrally Planned City
  14. Ayn Rand on Urbanism
  15. Selling the Rights to Greater Density
  16. The High Cost of Free Parking Preface and Afterword
  17. Anthony Ling on private buses
  18. The Zoning History of Barcelona’s Eixample
  19. The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 19-22
  20. NYU 2031: Rise of the Mole People
  21. The Zoning History of New York’s White Brick Apartments
  22. The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 16 – 18
  23. What I learned today about SNCF and California HSR
  24. The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 10-14
  25. En bloc condo redevelopment in Japan and Israel
  26. Why do condos even exist?
  27. Tokyo’s surprising lack of density
  28. The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 5-9
  29. A quick primer on CBTC and driverless trains
  30. Where is the Canadian real estate bubble going to hit hardest?
  31. Transpo bill gridlock staves off federal transit regulation
  32. Libertarians at the Reason Foundation oppose latest California parking minimum reform bill
  33. Ending rent control may not lower prices for non-regulated units
  34. Book Club Update
  35. “This is the dirty secret of California’s Density Bonus law…”
  36. Florida East Coast looks to hook up with Orlando International
  37. Rent control by any other name
  38. Before the landmarks…
  39. Look beyond Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn for solutions to a lack of retail
  40. New York transit officials grudgingly consider using existing track more efficiently
  41. TRD: Bushwick is staying industrial – no residential rezoning for East Williamsburg!
  42. The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 1-4
  43. Randal O’Toole: “If you didn’t have those suburban restrictions, you wouldn’t have that pressure for density in DC”
  44. Market Urbanism vs. Market Suburbanism smackdown at Cato: “The Death and Life of Affordable Housing”
  45. APA California hints (strongly) at opposition to parking minimum reform bill
  46. In Defense of Chicago
  47. Photos and renderings of buildings going up across New York
  48. Montgomery County’s loss is Calgary’s gain: Rollin Stanley escapes from the coven to Canada
  49. Were NYU and Chelsea Market’s hotels just stalking horses?
  50. Market Urbanism Book Club
  51. An Early Defense of Zoning
  52. A Request for Readers
  53. Walk Score Regression Results
  54. Some Empirical Evidence on Preference for Cities
  55. Bike Shares and Public Goods
  56. Brookings Study Ties Exclusionary Zoning to Gaps in School Performance
  57. 2012 Market Urbanism Meetup
  58. Height Limit Links
  59. Mandating attractive urban design
  60. Detroit’s Financial Future
  61. Cities and the Market Process: Part 4
  62. More on Parking Prices
  63. Spring Fever Links
  64. The Tyranny of Zoning: Exhibit A
  65. Book Review: The Rent Is Too Damn High
  66. Maryland realtors fight to protect their subsidy
  67. A hole in the literature?
  68. Transportation and Infrastructure Blues Links
  69. DC Office of Planning releases an underwhelming study of proposed new streetcar network
  70. Street art: violation of property rights or positive emergent order?
  71. “Really Narrow Streets” project in the planning stages in Maine
  72. “Upzoning means up yours!” Links
  73. Market Urbanism Flickr Group
  74. “Battle for Brooklyn” playing this weekend. Meetup?
  75. New York’s Funny Definition Of ‘Moderate- and Middle-Income’ Housing
  76. The North Korean Origins Of Renzo Piano’s Shard Tower
  77. Italy’s Austerity Plan Spurs Transport Deregulation
  78. Cutting Costs On California HSR Doesn’t Have To Add Delays
  79. The Coase Theorem in Land Use
  80. In Defense Of Land Reclamation: It Ain’t All Palm Islands!
  81. Freakonomics Quorum: Can Amtrak Ever Be Profitable?
  82. California HSR Review Panel Recommends Against $2.7 Billion Bond Issue

2011 180

  1. Qatar’s Skyscraper Diplomacy
  2. The Pitfalls Of The Manhattan Street Grid
  3. North Korean Urbanism at Kim Jong-il’s Funeral
  4. A Roosevelt Island Campus To Make Le Corbusier Proud
  5. William Fischel On The Origins of Zoning
  6. NYC Universities Doing Alright With Compsci Classes Without Cornell-Technion
  7. NYC Taxi Reform Doesn’t Go Far Enough
  8. As I Was Saying About Tech In Dumbo…
  9. Video: Was ist eigentlich Gentrifizierung?
  10. The Lord Gave To NYC Tech Start-Ups And Universities, And The Lord Hath Taken Away
  11. The Central Park Caper And Transit NIMBYism
  12. Tea Partying at Planning Meetings
  13. Betting the Farm on Oregon Iron Works
  14. Real Estate and Revolution in Moscow
  15. Surprise: Transit In The US Gets Just As Many Subsidies As Transit In Europe!
  16. Two Notes
  17. Washington Post: Only Idiots Think Infrastructure Spending Is Wasteful, And Americans Are Idiots
  18. Urbanization and GDP
  19. DC Approved 4,000 New Housing Units This Year, But Is It Enough?
  20. e. e. cummings the urbanist
  21. Book Review of The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper
  22. Zoning in NYC, Then and Now
  23. NYC Officials Take Notice of Astronomical Subway Construction Costs
  24. Cities and the Market Process: Part 3
  25. The Progressive Reaction Against NYC’s First Subway
  26. TGIF Links
  27. Some Belated Thoughts on The Gated City
  28. Meet Me At The Corner Of Mises & Jane Jacobs!
  29. New York City Planners: Pack ‘Em In!
  30. 11/11/11 Day Links
  31. Why DC’s Architecture Is So Boring
  32. Cities and the Tax Code
  33. Why the FRA is Bad for America, in 10 Seconds
  34. The Day the Engineers Turned Against California HSR
  35. Midweek Links and Business
  36. Cities and the Market Process: Part 2
  37. Hey Bloomberg, Buy Your Own 7 Train to New Jersey!
  38. Book Review of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
  39. Cities and the Market Process: Part 1
  40. London Planning Politics Breeds a Rare NIMBY Strain: Preventative Anti-NIMBY NIMBYism
  41. Why Preserve a Broken Cornice Line?
  42. On Favored Quarters, Off-Center Skyscraper Districts, and Poverty
  43. Old Urbanist on New Public Housing
  44. How Europe Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Skyscraper
  45. Brookings Study on HCVs; Results to be Expected
  46. From Towers-in-a-Park, to Rowhomes-in-a-Parking Lot?
  47. The War on Drugs Is a War on Cities
  48. Fictional Scandal at the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
  49. Affordable Housing vs. Density: The Unintended Consequences of Zoning Bonuses
  50. DC Councilmembers Take a (Soft) Stand Against Parking
  51. Preservationists Accuse NYC Landmarks Commission of Favoritism
  52. Car Sharing as a Public Utility – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  53. Real CEQA Reform, or Just Another Special Interest Handout?
  54. Good Transit Is Ugly Transit
  55. Alon Levy on the Suburbanization of Poverty
  56. Cities, Zoning, and Industry
  57. Does Urban Growth Have to Mean Gentrification?
  58. Spreading ideas through the urban process
  59. Capital markets for urban entrepreneurs
  60. Transit Oriented Development in Chevy Chase
  61. New funding for roads in Georgia
  62. Podcast with The Voluntary City
  63. E-books for everyone!
  64. Urbanist project selling well in Denver
  65. Obama’s sprawl-promoting industrial policy: electric cars
  66. FRA interview
  67. Covenants as a substitute for Euclidean zoning
  68. “The art of doing well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion”
  69. New standards for ridiculousness in historic preservation
  70. Psa
  71. Then and now, financial ruin edition
  72. A Tale of Two Densities
  73. When does local industrial policy succeed?
  74. Before there were stimulus projects
  75. Death and life in a changing neighborhood
  76. Setting the right transit safety standards
  77. Rent Control: Trying to Make a Bad Policy Worse in NYC
  78. The Price of Parking in India
  79. Some notes on slums and free markets
  80. Where have I been?
  81. Irrational, or responsive to incentives?
  82. More fuel for the transit policy fire
  83. Obama administration sells transit out to protectionists (again)
  84. Clear case of the damages inherent in policy uncertainty
  85. Five union work rules that harm transit productivity
  86. What good is form-based zoning when you just keep everything the same?
  87. “The Joys of Staying Put,” or “The Joys of Rent Control”?
  88. NYC tries to fine its way out of the laws of supply and demand
  89. A fresh rejection of commerce from Metro
  90. Alon Levy has a blog! Or: How Florida’s HSR money is being wasted in New York
  91. Laneway housing in Vancouver and beyond
  92. Meetup before Sandy’s Jane’s Walk this Sunday
  93. Garden apartments and letting go, then and now
  94. The irony of preserving that which was intended to destroy
  95. Randal O’Toole’s responds on “per passenger miles”
  96. Links: “At least they’re being honest” edition
  97. Links 15
  98. “I’ve Walked Away From Projects Because of Parking Minimums”
  99. Links 14
  100. Yet another non-bike-related NYC transit reform bites the dust
  101. Affordable Housing for the Rich and the Failure of Zoning Bonuses
  102. The Little-Known History of “Light and Air”
  103. Socialism and the roads, then and now
  104. Annotated simplified DC land use map
  105. Links 13
  106. Links 12
  107. More Libertarians on Jane Jacobs
  108. Links 11
  109. Nicole Gelinas responds to Alon Levy on MTA pay
  110. Long-form link list
  111. How Important Are Skyscrapers, Really?
  112. From the comments: Public transit’s problem is overstaffing, not wages
  113. Links: Transit worker wages, farmers markets, parking, and beyond!
  114. Another historic preservation district fail
  115. When “affordable housing” is just a random middle class housing subsidy
  116. The effects of the Bloomberg rezonings
  117. From the comments: “Architects always ask, with a haggard look in their eyes…”
  118. A question for the blogosphere: How much affordable housing is enough?
  119. Historical landmark districts in two pictures
  120. Old Urbanist on the failure of Boston’s newest park
  121. Links: A private cable car line for Hamburg, a private downtown for Quincy, Mass., and no adaptive reuse for Brooklyn
  122. What favelas can teach us about America
  123. Aaaand the bike lobby finally descends into self-parody…
  124. Is O’Toole right that California is too dense to matter?
  125. Has Wendell Cox ever heard of India’s license raj?
  126. Links 9
  127. From the comments: Parking minimums in Houston
  128. A far-too-long rebuttal of Randal O’Toole on parking
  129. Joel Kotkin doesn’t know what a “garden city” is, but he knows he loves it
  130. Links 8
  131. NYC’s horrible parking privatization plan
  132. A reader comment on census data
  133. If we’re in an urban renaissance, why are cities still losing population?
  134. Alon Levy on Downtown Brooklyn
  135. Downtown and the geometry of cities
  136. Even a HUD project in a high-density Bronx neighborhood can’t escape the parking minimum
  137. Not Marshmallows, but a Really, REALLY Big Lollipop
  138. Urban[ism] Legend: Transportation is a Public Good
  139. Links 7
  140. Links 6
  141. Ed Glaeser on New York City, development as preservation, and more
  142. Jamaica, Queens upzoning was great, but don’t forget the parking minimums
  143. Obama administration pushing dissolution of Fannie and Fredie
  144. When are user fees just redirected sales taxes?
  145. A bleg about vending in stations
  146. Duany bashes LEED standards
  147. Virginia land use law: Marc Scribner from CEI responds
  148. David Alpert calls out Virginia Tea Party group as land use statists
  149. Links 5
  150. Links 4
  151. If highways push traffic onto local roads, why not toll them too?
  152. The roots of anti-density sentiment
  153. Who believes that smart growth caused the recession?
  154. More empirical evidence that parking minimums matter
  155. Bloomberg pokes (again) at hornet’s nest of entitled drivers
  156. Links 3
  157. Links 2
  158. The origin of user fees?
  159. Russia links
  160. Even Jane Jacobs thought Houston doesn’t have zoning
  161. The Texas Transportation Institute’s funny definition of “congestion”
  162. Links
  163. Why are universities so bad at managing their land?
  164. Why am I so mean?
  165. Long weekend links
  166. London congestion pricing, then and now
  167. LaHood’s revealingly stupid reply to the WaPo’s HSR criticism
  168. Prince Charles on urbanism: the good and the bad
  169. Midnight link list
  170. Hump day list
  171. Newsflash: there’s no supply and demand in a centrally-planned market
  172. Yet another town moves from parking minimums to maximums with no stop in between
  173. Terrorism and cities, then and now
  174. Friday link list
  175. Preservationists hyperventilate over extra story in Chelsea
  176. If it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; if it dies…
  177. Elevated rail vs. road, and…monorails?
  178. Parking lots as tax arbitrage during the Great Depression
  179. New Years link list
  180. The environmental review strikes again: Lake Oswego edition

2010 102

  1. Why I don’t like Inclusionary Zoning
  2. Mohamed Atta as urban planner, and more from the Middle East
  3. Systemic Failure on HSR
  4. Calling your opponents “socialists” and “un-American” is as American as skyscrapers
  5. Vancouver shows how seeking community amenities from developers can go horribly wrong
  6. DC link list
  7. Japanese transit and what it can teach us
  8. Downtown Brooklyn’s $2 million affordable apartments (correction)
  9. The “Systemic Failure” of US transportation policy
  10. Asian megacities, free and unfree: Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul
  11. More weekend links
  12. Weekend links
  13. Just give Access-a-Ride users cash!
  14. The problem with “public” transportation
  15. This is how gentrification happens: Northwest DC and the height restriction
  16. Midweek link list
  17. Abandoned properties require reform, not more money
  18. Private parking contracting giving ‘privatization’ a bad name
  19. Free parking outside the $1,000/mo garage
  20. Parking politics in the 1920s and a bleg
  21. Link list
  22. Environmentalism vs. density, Clean Water Act edition
  23. Livechat invitation and more thinktank responses
  24. Marc Scribner at CEI on Seattle’s land use regulation
  25. NYC & DC links
  26. Environmental review vs. congestion pricing
  27. Seattle’s land use liberalization
  28. Reinflating the housing bubble through the FHA?
  29. A question and a link list
  30. How local property taxes discourage density
  31. NoMa’s missing parks
  32. Empirical evidence that anti-density zoning breeds racial segregation
  33. Mandates that fall only on multifamily development
  34. Weekend link megalist
  35. LI Dems to councilman: oppose density so we can get reelected
  36. Development as preservation
  37. Enlightened blogspam
  38. A handful of tall buildings being allowed on Paris’ outskirts
  39. Almost-Thanksgiving list
  40. The mirage of revealed preferences
  41. NYC to raise on-street parking rates, local news freaks out
  42. Hard Truths About Why Conservatives and Libertarians Hate Urbanism
  43. Quote of the day
  44. Happy 250th post!
  45. NJ, the far West Side, and LIC should pay for the No. 7 subway expansion
  46. Making-driving-more-expensive link minilist
  47. Sobyanin’s horrific plan for Moscow
  48. Environmentalism vs. density, federal style
  49. Ann Arbor’s biggest problem with medical marijuana? Parking
  50. Premium link list
  51. Links, links, links!
  52. DC parking minimums to “disappear in most cases”
  53. This is why DC can’t have nice things
  54. Another week, another consolation link list
  55. Some Inspiration from Guatemala
  56. Your consolation link list
  57. Matt Yglesias’ proposal for reforming DC’s ANC’s
  58. Mortgage-interest tax deduction cuts on the table
  59. Matt Yglesias attacks parking maximums, outs himself as a market urbanist
  60. Midnight parking round-up
  61. Midnight links
  62. The economics of redevelopment and the shape of socialist cities
  63. News and thoughts on the gas tax
  64. The inanity of airport connectors
  65. Hell freezes over, or: the one in which I agree with Randal O’Toole’s argument over Shoup’s
  66. Darien, CT gets sued by the DOJ over inclusionary zoning
  67. No ARC without TOD
  68. Sunday links
  69. Cap’n Transit comes out of the closet as a market urbanist
  70. Friday links
  71. When will New Jersey reverse its sprawling ways?
  72. A comment on NYU’s proposed superblocks
  73. New York City links
  74. Zoning blighted Manhattanville before Columbia did
  75. More urban planning mismeasurement
  76. More links!
  77. The folly of measuring transportation costs per passenger-mile
  78. Environmentalism vs. density
  79. Weekend links
  80. The Great American Streetcar Myth
  81. Building what you can
  82. A comment on rolling stock protectionism
  83. North Jersey jitneys take off
  84. “Buy American” drives up cost of transit
  85. Lazy link list
  86. Enforced price ceilings on private parking lots
  87. Internalizing positive transit externalities
  88. Food deserts and zoning
  89. Deregulating food
  90. Exporting (sub)urbanism: Kuala Lumpur and the communist world
  91. Toronto’s new zoning code
  92. Parking round-up
  93. Why does the Infrastructurist hate libertarians so much?
  94. Shoupistas take Los Angeles
  95. Even Midtown Manhattan not immune to anti-density NIMBYism
  96. Private Buses: Econtalk Takes A Second look at Santiago
  97. New empirical evidence that parking minimums encourage sprawl
  98. Must Read: The Demand Curve for Sprawl Slopes Downward
  99. Private buses make a comeback in NYC
  100. NYC’s lingering obsession with parking minimums may come to an end
  101. HSR crowding out local transportation projects
  102. LA’s partial parking privatization

2009 50

  1. Amtrak’s utter incompetence
  2. Obama’s genius high-speed rail plan
  3. Video: Sandy Ikeda on The Unintended Consequences of “Smart Growth”
  4. Rothbard The Urbanist Part 6: Traffic Control
  5. Correction, Reason.org’s Plug, and Glaeser on Jacobs
  6. HSR Urbanists: “We Are All O’Tooles Now”
  7. Rothbard the Urbanist Part 5: Diversity and Discrimination
  8. Zoning as a Tool of Class Exclusion
  9. Urban[ism] Legend: Traffic Planning
  10. Rothbard the Urbanist Part 4: Policing
  11. Rothbard the Urbanist Part 3: Prevention of Blockades
  12. A few updates
  13. O’Toole Under More Fire
  14. Rothbard the Urbanist Part 2: Safe Streets
  15. Yglesias Has My Head Spinning…
  16. While on the Subject of Friedman…
  17. Are You a Wright or Friedman Urbanist?
  18. Do We Need “New Urbanism” To Fix “Unwalkable Sprawl”?
  19. Block vs Poole: The Public-Private Partnership Debate
  20. Rothbard the Urbanist Part 1: Public Education’s Role in Sprawl and Exclusion
  21. How Pricing Tolls Right Eliminates Congestion
  22. The Nature of the Living City
  23. Intro to Emergent Urbanism
  24. What Would Moses Do? (Robert Moses, that is…)
  25. Undead Ideas: Rent Control
  26. Stadtluft Macht Frei (city air makes one free)
  27. 20/20 Segment on Private Roads (& Some things to ponder while in traffic)
  28. Tltest
  29. Books for Beginner Urbanists
  30. My Article at FreePo on the Resurrection of Rent Control
  31. How FDR’s TVA Went Wrong
  32. “Misbuilding” the Future, Again…
  33. How to Sidestep FAR Restrictions: Mezzanine Floors
  34. Tagged (7 things about me)
  35. Urban[ism] Legend: The Myth of Herbert Hoover
  36. The Nation’s mass transit hypocrisy
  37. Density in the Animal Kingdom
  38. NY Rent Control Revival
  39. Ant Cities Don’t Have a Planning Department
  40. Illinois Court Rules Against Chicago’s “Vague” Landmark Ordinance
  41. Urbanization driving reforestation to outpace deforestation?
  42. Redistribution (a follow up)
  43. Redistribution
  44. Taxing Land Speculation
  45. The Story of I’On: Struggles of a New Urbanist Project
  46. President Obama on Jane Jacobs and Cities
  47. Uncomfortable truths about the progressive legacy
  48. IBM Congestion Pricing Commercial
  49. Urban[ism] Legend: Positive NPV Infrastructure
  50. Private Roads Work

2008 151

  1. Another Angle on Planning in Houston
  2. Yes, Virginia, government roads really are government subsidized, and no, they don’t approximate freed-market outcomes
  3. Urban[ism] Legend: Is Houston really unplanned?
  4. MTA Rider Report Card: an F for Incentive Structure
  5. Irrationality Towards Shortages
  6. Urban[ism] Legend: Creating Jobs With Infrastructure
  7. Using eminent domain to blight neighborhoods
  8. Chicago Privatizes Parking Meters
  9. Landmark Incentives
  10. Euclid’s Legacy
  11. “The answer: Freedom.”
  12. Links to Interesting Articles
  13. Cul-de-sacs – Privatize ’em
  14. Who Owns the West?
  15. Tolling NY’s East River Bridges Back on The Table?
  16. Matt Yglesias fails to make the right case against highways
  17. Could NY Democrats Revive Rent Control?
  18. Talking points on the housing bubble
  19. Sandy Ikeda Guest-Blogging at Market Urbanism
  20. The Moral Case Against Rent Control
  21. Retail Rent Control
  22. Market Meltdown and Bailout Videos
  23. Cook County (Chicago) Sheriff Won’t Evict in Foreclosures
  24. Glaeser: Let Housing Prices Fall
  25. Sun Sets on Culture of Congestion
  26. Russell Roberts on Government Intervention in Housing
  27. Portland Ideas??
  28. Parking Minimums Hamper Development and Affordability
  29. Happy Park(ing) Day 2008
  30. WSJ: Rent Control Is the Real New York Scandal
  31. The Market, Zoning, and Freedom.
  32. Econtalk Podcast: Shiller on Housing and Bubbles
  33. Another On “Conservatives” and Urbanism
  34. Bike Sharing
  35. Market Urbanism on NY Sun’s Culture of Congestion
  36. Weekend Reading: Jane Jacobs, Agglomeration, Farms, NIMBY Songs
  37. Skyscrapers as Economic Indicators
  38. Block on Road Socialism
  39. Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
  40. Glaeser: State of the City
  41. Dealing With NIMBYs
  42. Links and Weekend Listening
  43. Urban[ism] Legend: Gas Taxes and Fees Cover All Costs of Road Use
  44. Boudreaux: Roads Don’t Need New Taxes
  45. Conservatives and Urbanism
  46. Video: Driven to the Brink
  47. Urban[ism] Legend: Density is Bad for the Environment
  48. Neighborhood Walkability Scores
  49. Cuba Grants Limited Property Rights to Farmers
  50. Reason.org’s Staley Not in Favor of Property Rights if…
  51. Glaeser on Affordability of NY vs Houston
  52. Amateur Economist: Zoning Hurts Housing Affordability
  53. Rangel Now Only Hoards Three Rent Controlled Apartments
  54. Congressman Rangel Legally Plunders $30,000/year in Four Rent Controlled Apartments
  55. Economakis Family Threatened by Friends of Rent Control
  56. New Research on the Economics of Green Buildings
  57. Ikea Provides Private Transportation, Santiago-Style
  58. EconTalk Podcast on Public Transportation
  59. Urban[ism] Legend: Greedy Developers
  60. Abandoned Cities
  61. Unintended Consequences of Stop Signs
  62. Hyde Park Chicago Before Zoning
  63. $5 Gas and Commuting Costs
  64. link: Medieval Cities
  65. How to Obscure Reality to Make Planners Seem Important
  66. Journalists and Cities
  67. Social Networking With Market Urbanism
  68. Urban[ism] Legend: Zoning Creates Density
  69. NYC 20-Somethings’ Stagnant Wages and Higher Cost of Living
  70. Subsidies and Taxes Favor Owning Over Renting
  71. Should Government Own Wilderness?
  72. Could a Private Street Look Like This?
  73. Gramercy Park: Private Open Space
  74. Demographics + Transportation Costs + Lower Crime = More Urbanization
  75. EcoDensity: Scary Name, but Not-so-Bad
  76. Socialist Cities
  77. CTA “Super Station” Mothballed
  78. Quinn Proposes to Revamp Rent Control ‘Freakshow’
  79. Cubs Fail to Sell Wrigley to State (100 years of faith for sale)
  80. Bush’s “Ownership Society” and Subprime
  81. Want Density? Turn the Free Market Loose
  82. CATO Podcast: Transportation
  83. Historic Preservation Can Work in the Marketplace
  84. Airport Protectionism?
  85. California’s Water Resources vs Development
  86. NYC Crane Inspector Corruption
  87. Free Market Impostors
  88. New Feature: Threaded Comments
  89. Landlord Finally Free to Live in His Own Home
  90. Somin: Causes of the Defeat of Prop 98
  91. “Cockamamie” Neighborhood Zones
  92. Somin: Prop 99 Worse Than Nothing
  93. Carroll Gardens, Choose Only One: Setback or Height Restriction?
  94. Roads: US vs Europe
  95. Somin: Prop 98 Likely to Fail, 99 to Pass
  96. World’s Most Impressive Subways
  97. Thank you Lynne Kiesling
  98. Happy 125th, Chicago’s L
  99. Over 200 Illegal Hotel Buildings in NYC
  100. Mixed Incentives and the True Costs of Driving
  101. Market Incentives to Conserve Resources
  102. Rent Control Part 4: Conclusion and Solutions
  103. Market Urbanism Debuts at #196 on Economics Blog Ranking
  104. Friday Humor: White People in Portland
  105. Watch as “Expediters” Become Scapegoats of Corruption and Incompetence
  106. Video: Both Sides of Proposition 98
  107. Rent Control Part 3: Mobility, Regional Growth, Development and Class Conflict
  108. Rent Control Part 2: Black Market, Deterioration and Discrimination
  109. Bribery for Property Rights: Federal Charges in Chicago
  110. “Green” Parking Garage in Chicago. Oxymoron?
  111. Lower East Side Now “Endangered”?
  112. Rent Control Part 1: Microeconomics Lesson & Hoarding
  113. $12.8b Bid for PA Turnpike
  114. Vending Machine Economics in Japan
  115. Does Urban Farming Make Sense?
  116. Krugman: Stranded in Suburbia
  117. The Great Depression and America’s Addiction to Government Roads and Oil
  118. NY Gov. Patterson’s Rent-Stabilized Apartment in Harlem
  119. University of Chicago Creates Milton Friedman Institute
  120. A Recipe to Destroy Affordability in Any City.
  121. How McCain or Obama Can Permanently Eliminate the Gas Tax, Cut Pork and Help the Environment
  122. Private Streets in Brooklyn?
  123. Release Us From Rent Regulation
  124. Privatize Midway Airport
  125. Colbert: Free Gas!
  126. LA’s New Housing Rules Band-aid the Symptoms, Exacerbate the Problem
  127. Urgent: Kanye West May Die Without This Condo
  128. “Change” Not Welcome in Harlem: Neighbors Cause Commotion as Harlem Rezoning Passes
  129. Markets for Parking
  130. Abolition of Density Restrictions Would be Great for NYC In The Long Run
  131. Recent Links 4/24/08: PA Turnpike, NYC Rezoning, Tudor City NIMBYs, Houston Zoning
  132. Should the Government Build the Cars or the Roads?
  133. Mortgage-Interest Deduction: The Unseen Costs
  134. Carroll Gardens: Sign the Pro-Development Petition
  135. Are Late-Night Speakeasies on their way to NYC?
  136. McCain: Suspend the Gas Tax and Inflate the Deficit
  137. The High Cost of Trendy Living
  138. Was it the name that killed “congestion pricing”?
  139. Government Planning Day
  140. Video: The Free-market Case for Green
  141. NIMBYs sue to force developer to “protect character”
  142. Ending the Free Ride
  143. Bigger isn’t necessarily better
  144. Investment firms try to de-regulate apartments. Are they so evil?
  145. 125th Street Rezoning
  146. NY Times: West Side Redevelopment Plans in Disarray
  147. Sowell: Green “Disparate Impact”
  148. Video: Gridlock
  149. WSJ: The Rise of the Mega-Region
  150. Planetizen: Economists vs. Planners? Complements, Not Substitutes
  151. Introducing: Market Urbanism