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By: joe absol

joe absol — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:56:01 +0000

The point of this article is that developers steering the entire zoning process in their favor, so that the blame for their greed can be laid at the feet of the bad bad evil government. When, the developers and the government are essentially the same thing, Thanks.

By: The Demand Curve for Sprawl Slopes Downward | Holy ! Macaroni

The Demand Curve for Sprawl Slopes Downward | Holy ! Macaroni — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:46:18 +0000

[...] libertarians ought to think about urban sprawl and its causes, including pieces by Kevin Carson, Austin Bramwell, Randal O’Toole, and Matthew Yglesias. The title of Ben Adler’s post basically sums it up: [...]

By: The Demand Curve for Sprawl Slopes Downward | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:35:27 +0000

By: J Everett

J Everett — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:22:03 +0000

Equal to Highway spending and Euclidian Zoning is the advent of the Minimum Parking Requirement as a cause of sprawl and further source of subsidy for an auto-dependant America. The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup is a good read on the subject. This explains why Houston still sprawling in the absence of “Zoning” they still grew with minimum parking requirements.

It’s the long-term maintenance costs of sprawl not the initial capital costs that make it less fiscally responsible than transit oriented compact development. We have built to much sprawl and have not funded its maintenance. The ASCE’s most recent report card gave America’s infrastructure a grade of “D”. Calculating it would take $2.2 Trillion just to get back to acceptable conditions.

By: pit awning franklin

pit awning franklin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:43:09 +0000

There’s nothing to defend when talking about suburban sprawls.

By: Freeways and the death of the great American city | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:39:41 +0000

[...] a side note, this reminds me of Austin’s post over at The American Conservative earlier this year. He wrote at the time: It’s odd that [...]

By: If You Had Read the Paper | Fri Apr 23 | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads.

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:23:53 +0000

[...] month in the American Conservative Austin Bramwell argued that “sprawl—an umbrella term for the pattern of development seen virtually everywhere in the [...]

By: The Problem of Specialization « LEARNING FROM LONDON

The Problem of Specialization « LEARNING FROM LONDON — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:37:44 +0000

[...] for planning, there has been more talk of this lately – the idea that most walkable urbanism is currently illegal in most parts of [...]

By: hillwalker

hillwalker — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:44:20 +0000

Always strikes me as funny, to listen to libertarians complain about big government doing the bidding of big business, as being the problem. More to the point of this article, developers steering the entire zoning process in their favor, so that the blame for their greed can be laid at the feet of the bad bad evil government. When, the developers and the government are essentially the same thing.
“Paved the first road back ’45
Now ya gotta have wheels if yer gonna survive.”

Blaming the government for the greed of corporate america as a defense of libertarianism is just too ironic, even for me.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:02:41 +0000

Jamestown, you’re kind of an ass. Where I live right now, it’s illegal to, for example, build a four story building and have retail shops on the first floor, offices on the second, and residential units on the third and fourth. You honestly see nothing wrong with that?

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:52:47 +0000

@randy, cities are very expensive. 50+ years of suburbia have shown that density doesn’t lead to more effecient government.

By: A Sprawling Debate » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

A Sprawling Debate » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:55:56 +0000

[...] of the Cato Institute takes on Austin Bramwell’s argument that suburban sprawl is the result of government planning. How can this be, O’Toole asks, when notorious sprawls like Houston don’t even have a [...]

By: The American Conservative » Sorry, But When I Said “Vast” I Really Meant Vast

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:12:22 +0000

[...] as “balderdash and poppycock” my claim that “government planning makes sprawl ubiquitous,” Randal O’Toole of the [...]

By: A Libertarian View of Urban Sprawl | Think Tank West

A Libertarian View of Urban Sprawl | Think Tank West — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:20:53 +0000

[...] fans. As soon as he posted his rude reply, the blogosphere lit up with arguments from progressive, conservative, and even libertarian writers claiming that sprawl is the result of central planning and zoning and [...]