market urbanism Concepts

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It

by Richard Florida · 9 May 2016 · 356pp · 91,157 words

should be done to limit NIMBYism and to streamline outdated land use restrictions. But the basic notion, advocated by the growing chorus of so-called market urbanists, that we can make our cities more affordable, more equal, and more productive simply by getting rid of existing land use restrictions is one of

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most. We can’t make more land, but we can develop the land we have more intensively and efficiently. A growing chorus of so-called market urbanists argues that the best way to do this is by eliminating the restrictive zoning and building codes that limit the market’s ability to build

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.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/is-life-better-in-americas-red-states.html. 8. Tyler Cowen, “Market Urbanism and Tax Incidence,” Marginal Revolution, April 19, 2016, http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/04/market-urbanism-and-tax-incidence.html. 9. As quoted in Stephen Wickens, “Jane Jacobs: Honoured in the Breach,” Globe and

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Manhattan, 43, 129 land values in, 23 SoHo, xvi, 2, 19–20, 20 (fig.), 36, 61–62 West Chelsea, 37 manufacturing, decrease in, 202–204 market urbanists, 192 Marshall, Alfred, 21 Marx, Karl, 26, 121 Massey, Douglas, 58 mayors, 213–214 McKenzie, Roderick D., 126 Medellín, Colombia, 167, 182–183 median housing

Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

by Conor Dougherty · 18 Feb 2020 · 331pp · 95,582 words

called YIMBY Socialists made of people who were focused on affordable and public housing. They were the YIMBY opposite of another sub‐group called YIMBY Market Urbanists, whose members were rooted in the free‐market thinking espoused by economists like Ed Glaeser. And no issue split them, or the club, more than

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the sober pros and cons. But here they would go through them again by having two people, one from YIMBY Socialists and another from YIMBY Market Urbanists, present the yes and no cases. The logic behind rent control rests on what seems like a simple idea: If prices are going up too

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a voice to people who aren’t even here today, and this undermines our ability to protect those people,” said a member of the YIMBY Market Urbanists during a presentation on why they should endorse no. “I am for expanding rent control, especially statewide, especially to some places that don’t have

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, 192, 193–95, 218–19 YIMBY Action, 130, 138, 140, 209–11, 216, 219, 220 YIMBY Congress, 126–28, 141 YIMBY Gala, 143, 209 YIMBY Market Urbanists, 212, 215 YIMBY PAC, 130 YIMBY Socialists, 212, 215 YIMBYtown conference in Boston, 227–30, 234–35 YIMBYtown conference in Boulder, 35–38, 106, 210

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words

suggested the developer had used the enterprise zone status to secure £1.3 billion in tax breaks and infrastructure for a supposed “paragon of free-market urban revitalization.”64 Its central structure was One Canada Square, a fifty-story skyscraper capped with a pyramid designed by another of the era’s star

The politics of London: governing an ungovernable city

by Tony Travers · 15 Dec 2004 · 251pp · 88,754 words

the political agenda. National governments saw them as key assets; major European and North American cities engaged in a frantic and ceaseless round of city marketing, urban boosterism and ruthless competition for inward investment, attracting skilled workers and prestige arts, cultural and sporting events. At the same time, there was increasing concern

Together

by Vivek H. Murthy, M.D. · 5 Mar 2020 · 405pp · 112,470 words

/201902/t20190228_1651335.html. 33Haining Wang, Fei Guo, and Zhiming Cheng, “A distributional analysis of wage discrimination against migrant workers in China’s urban labour market,” Urban Studies 52, no. 13 (October 2015): 2383–2403, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26146146. 34“Brakes on China’s floating population,” South China Morning Post

Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World

by Sara C. Bronin · 30 Sep 2024 · 230pp · 74,949 words

.edu. 81 highest Black-White homeownership gap: Jung Hyun Choi et al., “Explaining the Black-White Homeownership Gap: A Closer Look at Disparities Across Local Markets,” Urban Institute, 2019. 81 legislative mandate that requires the city: Minn. Stat. Ann. § 473.864. 82 the final plan: City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning

The City: A Global History

by Joel Kotkin · 1 Jan 2005

the continent now expanded for the first time in a millennium. Villages were becoming towns and some towns cities, with their own cathedrals and central markets. Urban centers arose from the upper Rhineland to Riga, Gda nsk, and the steppes of Russia.1 For the first time since the classical period, Europe

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey West · 15 May 2017 · 578pp · 168,350 words

adding up all of the contributions of its individual constituent parts, is called an emergent behavior. It is a readily recognizable characteristic of economies, financial markets, urban communities, companies, and organisms. The important lesson that we learn from these investigations is that in many such systems there is no central control. So

Suburban Nation

by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck · 14 Sep 2010 · 321pp · 85,267 words

from the point of view of their own citizens. That approach may seem virtuous, but it ignores the reality of regional competition in an open market. Urban leaders must borrow a page from the suburban developers’ handbook and look at their communities from the outside in, through the eyes of a customer

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words

expression of fast finance in building form. Schumacher, however, may not find this such a problem. See “I Am Trying to Imagine a Radical Free Market Urbanism: Conversation between Peter Eisenman and Patrik Schumacher,” Log 28 (Summer 2013). However, this is not the only perspective available. Luciana Parisi has outlined a more