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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Fall and Rise of the "Euro Block"

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In a recent post , Urban Kchoze's Simon Vallee discusses the traditional "Euro block," that characteristic urban form of Europ...
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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Single Family Zoning: It's All About the Lot Sizes

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Contemporary critiques of zoning take several forms.  First, and probably most common, is the critique of strict use segregation in the Eucl...
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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Auto Costs and Housing Costs, or, One Reason the Suburbs are So Appealing

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Simon Vallee has a post from some time back about filtering vs. gentrification in which he analogizes the process of gentrification, in Nor...
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Saturday, January 24, 2015

Sonia Hirt on the Origins of American Zoning

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I've written about Professor Sonia Hirt's work previously , so I was glad to find out several months ago that she had a forthcoming ...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Reconciling Bridges and Urbanism

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Bridges have been a feature of urban design ever since King Nabopolassar spanned the Euphrates River with a causeway around 620 B.C, joinin...
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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Housing Innovations in Texas

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Citylab recently posted an interesting profile of a new development in Harlingen, Texas by Amanda Kolson Hurley.  Having written about thi...
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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Demise of the Duplex

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The New York YIMBY website has complied Census building permit data to reveal how construction of single-family and small multifamily dwelli...
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