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Economics, zoning and Austin, Texas.
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Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Nov 20, 2009
I have begun contributing to Streetsblog Capitol Hill.  My first piece is on the regressivity of our housing policy.  Check it out.

"No road we built in Texas paid for itself."

Nov 11, 2009
From Streetsblog Capitol Hill: Over the past two days at the Congress for the New Urbanism Project for Transportation Reform conference, attendees have called for reform at local, regional, and national levels. In a panel debate about the...

Aragon

Nov 1, 2009
Mueller gets a lot of criticism -- see the grouchy comments to this entry -- much of it unfair.  I like Mueller.  I do agree, though, that it is not a model mixed-use, New Urbanist development.  Among other things, there is  too much segregation of...

Using asphalt more efficiently

Oct 22, 2009
Most mornings on my way into work, I stop at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on South Lamar, a new coffee shop between Riverside and Barton Springs, one door down from Bridges on the Park.  (The building used to be a soccer store.) If you are...

No

Oct 15, 2009
I agree with Ryan Avent that this WSJ piece makes a bizarre argument against congestion pricing: By requiring car drivers to pay a fee to drive in a city at peak hours, congestion pricing reduces traffic and raises money that can be used...


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