All Posts Tagged With: "smart growth"
Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It
Congestion is five times worse than in 1995. Why? What should we do about it? Those questions drive Randal O’Toole’s Gridlock. The main reason for the increase, the author writes, is that beginning in the 1960s, “Many people looked at the costs of the automobile without considering the benefits, and their solution was to get [...]
21Apr2011 | Gary M. Galles | 26 comments | ContinuedLand-Use Controllers Never Quit
I have more than a small suspicion that those who promote urbanization will do so no matter what it does for the climate. The answer for them is always the same: more urbanization. Don’t worry about the exact question.
21May2009 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedGas Prices: The Latest Excuse to Reengineer Society
As someone who commutes 16 miles each way to work in a gas-guzzling sports car along the LA-area freeways, I’ve been less-than-amused by the nearly $5 a gallon I must pay for the premium fuel that keeps my mid-life-crisis-mobile running. Yet despite the misery of high prices, I’ve taken a certain joy in watching the [...]
1Nov2008 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedRe-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy
Edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close Reviewed by Michael Sanera
1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedNew Urbanism: Same Old Social Engineering
What should libertarians think of an increasingly influential land-use and planning movement known as the New Urbanism,
which seeks a broad change in the way cities and suburbs
develop?
The Idiocy of “Smart Growth”
One of the more obnoxious (and, frankly, dangerous) trends here on Long Island is the growing number of “grassroots” activists who’ve taken it upon themselves to inform the “less socially aware” — meaning everyone else — that our fair isle is suffering (yes, suffering) from “too much development”: too many warehouses and office buildings, too [...]
19Apr2003 | Barry Loberfeld | 0 comments | ContinuedBeware "New Urbanism"
Most folks would never consider that the choice between intown and suburban living could hold any moral implications. The questions of cost, security, education options, house size, and yard size are far more important in buyers’ minds. But to those who fear the sprawl of cities into suburbs and beyond, the decision to live either [...]
1Oct2002 | C.C. Kraemer | 2 comments | ContinuedEnemies of the Automobile
Ralph Clark is a professor of philosophy at West Virginia University. The automobile age is approximately 100 years old. With the approach of a new century and new millennium there could be no better time to celebrate the automobile for its profound contributions to human happiness. Unfortunately, automobiles have enemies. An influential movement is underway [...]
1Nov2001 | Ralph W. Clark | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Smart-Growth Scam
H. Nathan Hart recently graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. Paul Cleveland is an associate professor of economics at Birmingham-Southern College. Transportation is essential to the daily life of nearly every American. Millions of people flock onto the freeways and streets to accomplish innumerable tasks each day. Americans love their cars. No other mode [...]
1Jul2001 | and H. Nathan Hart | 2 comments | ContinuedSuburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) • 2000 • 290 pages • $30.00 The authors of Suburban Nation are luminaries in the movement called “the New Urbanism.” Their goal is to stop what they view as the misshapen sprawl around cities, which they consider alienating, destructive of community, and wasteful of land. Suburban Nation [...]
1Jun2001 | Jane S. Shaw | 1 comment | ContinuedA Victim of Wetlands Regulations
Marisa Manley’s articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. Since 1968, James J. Wilson’s Interstate General Co., L.P., has been developing a 9,100-acre planned community in Maryland, called St. Charles. It is located about 20 miles from Washington, D.C., and some 33,000 people live there. Recently, the Washington Post reported, [...]
1Jul1997 | Marisa Manley | 2 comments | Continued-
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