Political Economy

You might be interested in my post at Economics and Liberty regarding the Fuller Court: "My sense is that while the Fuller Court was q...

GAS STATIONS ON MANHATTAN: fewer stations equals less competition .

Urban Population growth in lesser developed or third world countries are booming. Cities, like Argentina ’s capital city Buenos ...

Florida developers have recently discovered a new development review process weapon in the arsenal to push through projects that is called a...

According to an online article I just read, our suspicions have been confirmed: American houses are getting bigger. No big surprise, but her...

Recently through a source that shall remain anonymous, I found out that over the past year, several major insurance companies are denying th...

Newark , Kennedy, LaGuardia airports comprise one of the most congested airspaces in the world. Surprise enough, though, these airports ar...

New Urbanism seems to be getting a lot of attention and Wal-Mart is considering joining the ban wagon. This article explains how Wal-Mart is...

New Urbanism seems to be getting a lot of attention and Wal-Mart is considering joining the ban wagon. This article explains how Wal-Mart is...

Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, from the Department of Environmental and Ocupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University i...

National Geographic says that, "most people agree that unchecked development is a bad deal." This is the assumption that I think m...

In class the other day, the question came up: what is the predominant goal of smart growth? When looking into their dogma, we find two possi...

I was writing my Urban Econ term paper (I'm going to cross-post this on the Enviro blog btw) and I came across this . These proposals ha...

Has anybody noticed the reality that New Urbanism and Smarth Growth are really synonyms? I was reading an article exerpting a speech given b...

Urbanization poses a very unique problem to the inhabitants of the area. As an area becomes more urbanized it loses natural surfaces of soil...

I was browsing around the Heritage Foundation and came across this article from back in 2004 about the costs of sprawl and thought it was p...

Here is the abstract for an interesting paper by Glaeser, Kahn & Rappaport : "More than 17 percent of households in American centra...

Jane Jacobs has passed away at the age of 89. You might be interested in this interview . Here is a bit of the interview: "Reason: A ...

Sprawl, although incredibly ambiguous, can teach all of us a lot about economics. To start with, simply understanding all of the different a...

The main problem with sprawl is summed up by the question "what does it cost, and who has to pay for it?" The fast mo...