All Posts Tagged With: "urban sprawl"
Beware "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 | ContinuedPlunder Gets a Boost
Timothy Sandefur is a law student at Chapman University in Orange, California. A recent legislative battle in California demonstrates once again the dangers of economic ignorance and what Frederic Bastiat called “legalized plunder.” Assembly Bill 84, fortunately vetoed by Governor Gray Davis, would have “prohibit[ed] a public agency from authorizing a project or development that [...]
1Feb2000 | Timothy Sandefur | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Is This Thing Called Sprawl?
“Urban sprawl” is fast becoming the most important issue among so-called “land use” experts and in many state legislatures as well. If it isn’t understood correctly, laws enacted to deal with it are likely to become major threats to both liberty and economic well-being. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as the old saying [...]
1Oct1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued-
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