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Interesting that the two actual loci of planning power—transportation planning and land-use planning—have largely been ceded to engineers and attorneys. The planning profession essentially involves administering what they hand down.
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"Exclusionary zoning" isn't some aberrant application/recent misuse/unintended side effect of zoning. Economic segregation is and always was the point of zoning. The sooner we dispense with the ahistorical "factories in
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We often point to Japan as a successful case study in liberal land-use regulation driving housing affordability, but Athens isn't such a bad example either.https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20191011-the-surprising-story-of-athens-offb
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I'll be tweeting some highlights from @KAErdmann's talk with @YIMBYNeoliberal. Happening now: https://www.eventbrite.com/x/yimby-neoliberal-blame-nimbys-for-the-great-recession-with-kevin-erdmann-tickets-134730421317?utm_campaign=re
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When I rented a U-Haul, there was a speed governor that prevented me from going over 75, the maximum speed limit in nearly all of the US. In no part
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Not to go all trad on you all, but damn, did we as a society just collectively forget how to build playgrounds? We need to stop all playground demolitions until
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This is a massing rule—staggered setbacks—that makes sense in a very specific (and extreme) design context: the skyscraper canyons of Lower Manhattan. And yet it's now mindlessly enforced across North
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"[I]if you can’t go out to eat, why even live in the city?" And if you don't have a lot of nice consumption-amenities, the nudge for super productive people to
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