The High Cost of Free Parking Preface and Afterword
This is the last post in the series on Donald Shoup’s The High Cost of Free Parking. Previous can be found here:Chapters 1 – 4Chapters 5 – 9Chapters 10 – 14Chapters 16 – 18Chapters 19 – 22PrefaceIn...
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View ArticleHappy Birthday Jane Jacobs! (Now Let’s Have A Debate)
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View ArticleThe Key Word In Conservative Urban Reform: “Openness”
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View ArticleRichard Florida Should Replace The Term ‘Creative Class’ With ‘Country Club’
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View ArticleTaylor Swift Spurns Country Music’s Longtime Attitude Towards Cities
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View ArticleThe Bottom-Up Urbanism Of Patrik Schumacher
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View ArticleJoel Kotkin’s New Book Lays Out His Sprawling Vision For America
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View ArticleThe Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of...
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View ArticleGlamour in streetscapes
A while ago I attended an Urban Land Institute event on development trends in Fairfax’s Mosaic District. A presenter from the retail developer EDENS described their strategy of adding “sidewalk...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Jane Jacobs! (Now Let’s Have A Debate)
1. This week I wrote three articles: one for Governing Magazine about how to make pedestrian malls successful; and two for Forbes—about how Syracuse is squelching a driveway-sharing app, and the...
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1. I published two articles this week. The first was a Governing Magazine piece about how Miami’s pro-development policies have delayed downtown gentrification. The second was an update, published by...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Spurns Country Music’s Longtime Attitude Towards Cities
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