Brookings examines land-use regulations
Published 15 August 2006 The Brookings Institution in Washington has produced a 40-page paper reviewing land-use regulations in the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the US. Not surprisingly, the...
View ArticleUS sprawl/compact arguments get petty – and off the point for NZ
Published 3 September 2006 The American sprawl/compact, roads/transit debates have become quite petty & personalised – and it’s harder to detect rational new points among them. Conceptual...
View ArticleAustralian campaigner says urban growth boundaries must be removed to reduce...
Published 26 September 2006 Australia’s leading campaigner against land-use constraints as the cause of unaffordable housing, Bob Day, has advocated removing urban growth boundaries or zoning...
View ArticleWould clusters of self-sustaining suburban villages be the way to improve on...
Published 27 October 2006 Noted Californian urban visionary Joel Kotkin has produced a new article on the suburban future. Instead of sprawl, he wrote in Metropolis magazine (and on his own website),...
View ArticleCoastal prices or lifestyle preference the key factor in hinterland sprawl?
Published 15 December 2006 One of the leading US advocates of suburbia over urban intensification, Joel Kotkin, claims in his latest piece, Presenting the new economic map of America, the hinterland is...
View ArticlePortland examined under different microscopes – planning points to debate
Published 23 September 2007Randal O’Toole, the chief anti-planning critic of Portland, Oregon, issued a new attack on the Cato Institute website in July, Debunking Portland: The city that doesn’t work....
View ArticleInstitute to publish new atlas of urban expansion next year
The US-based Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will publish the second edition of its Atlas of Urban Expansion next year. The post Institute to publish new atlas of urban expansion next year appeared...
View ArticleTracking ideas Sun21June15 – Optimum city size, home ownership slides, sprawl...
What’s the best size for a city? - US home ownership sliding - Study says sprawl’s US dominance declining The post Tracking ideas Sun21June15 – Optimum city size, home ownership slides, sprawl...
View ArticleIs it really a faraway boundary that’s raising inner-city house prices?
Is it an urban boundary 30-40km away that has pushed the price of very average houses in the Auckland isthmus’s eastern suburbs and the western fringe of the cbd over $1 million, and rising? The post...
View ArticleAustralian research attributes high proportion of housing cost to regulations
Advocates of removing urban growth boundaries have hailed a research paper on the effect of zoning on house prices, issued by the Reserve Bank of Australia last week.
View ArticleCritics question validity of “costs of sprawl” research
Published: 29 May 2005 This paper, The costs of sprawl reconsidered: What the data really show by Wendell Cox & Joshua Utt, appeared on The Heritage Foundation’s website on 25 June 2004. You can...
View ArticleSprawl, the American arguments – and where do they get us?
Published: 29 May 2005 The US Heritage Foundation ran a series of papers last year on urban sprawl, an argument which New Zealanders pick up occasionally then put down again as they settle back in the...
View ArticleSmart growth savings misrepresented, Canadian researcher argues
Published: 29 May 2005 Todd Littman, of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute in British Columbia, argued in a 9 July 2004 paper, Understanding smart growth savings, that the Heritage Foundation...
View ArticleCritics slate smart growth congestion report
Published: 29 May 2005 This backgrounder, by Wendell Cox & Ronald D. Utt, appeared on The Heritage Foundation’s website on 28 July 2004. The link to the full version is at the foot of this...
View ArticleSprawl & transit combatants – tracking back to Cox & Arrington
Published: 30 May 2005 Wendell Cox featured as a writer of 2 reports, and the heavily criticised subject of another, in the US debate on sprawl versus compact city/smart growth which were published on...
View ArticleAustralian federal opposition tries to lead way on urban vision
Published 18 December 2005 The Australian Labor Party has issued a discussion paper on urban development, housing & local government. Senator Kim Carr, shadow minister for all the above plus...
View ArticleCohousing – smart growth with a difference
Published 18 December 2005 I scour the net for information & ideas, don’t always get time to write everything into a useful item for this website, sometimes make numerous searches before rejecting...
View ArticleSierra Club produces “healthy & livable” guidebook
Published 28 December 2005 US organisation The Sierra Club, noted for its campaign against urban sprawl, has published a guidebook of 12 “healthy & livable” communities, built on redeveloped urban...
View ArticlePavletich continues anti-smart growth dialogue
Published 21 March 2006 Christchurch property developer & anti-intensification campaigner Hugh Pavletich has congratulated New South Wales organisation SOS (Save Our Suburbs) for its existence, but...
View ArticleFuelling the sprawl debate, and rationalising it
Published 16 July 2006 I often find the American debates about urban sprawl amusing because, in our context, they are meaningless but are taken to have great meaning. The central debate there is...
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