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What was Antonio Villaraigosa doing with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today at the Los Angeles River? Nothing, really: only claiming credit for doing nothing.
Archive for the ‘Urbanism’ Category
July 7th, 2010
July 5th, 2010
Once again, Los Angeles has missed a chance to pursue smart growth. And its self-styled Green Mayor is partially responsible.
April 8th, 2010
James’ post about the Oxford Circus redesign fails to distinguish three very different ideas about managing movement in urban spaces, though if you follow his links you can parse it out. The culture of traffic engineering is about moving cars (in parts of Europe, bicycles and trams also) quickly, and one of its tropes – [...]
March 20th, 2010
Category: Policy Analysis, Urbanism
Kevin Drum and Matt Yglesias have posts examining suburban sprawl, in particular whether it happens because people just like to live that way, no matter what pointy-head planning professors tell them, or in some way against our will. Kevin adduces first-order evidence, voting with feet and voting with votes to go to and to preserve [...]
August 10th, 2009
Category: Energy and Environment, Urbanism
Homeowners might actually welcome density in their neighborhoods — they just need a Nudge to find it out.
May 9th, 2009
Lenore Skenazy, a writer not previously known to me, has captured my head and my heart. She understands statistics and risk, psychology, perception, and kids. She has her feet on the ground and her eyes open. Money quote from an interview in Slate (h/t Andrew Sullivan): we’ve started to think of our kids as the [...]
March 16th, 2009
Ed Glaeser may be a terrific economist. But that doesn’t mean that he has any idea what he’s talking about. Maybe just the opposite.
February 12th, 2009
Let’s be precise when we try to debunk stereotypes about sprawl.
January 28th, 2009
Meet the transportation lobbying gorilla in the stimulus.
January 22nd, 2009
Category: 2009 Democratic Agenda, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Infrastructure, Policy briefs, Stimulus, The Obama Presidency, Urbanism
Smart Growth America’s state policy director offers an explanation.
