Blog Detail
Austin Contrarian
http://www.austincontrarian.com
My Austin blog focuses on urban economics, urbanism, urban development and zoning and land-use issues.
- Added on: May 11th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Chris Bradford
- Listed in: Economics Law & Legal
- Tags: austin urbanism zoning demographics urban development land-use
Recent Posts
Why Clusters of Like Businesses Thrive
In New York, for example, diamond dealers, florists and even chess shops are clumped together. That's from yesterday's All Things Considered (4:44 podcast). A very nice explanation of economies of agglomeration. I liked it mainly ...
Some Council members are skeptical, too
Let me give credit where credit is due. If I had been watching yesterday's Council meeting, I would have known that some city Council members also are skeptical of the new wave of historic landmark applications:The Austin City Council on Thursday o...
The historic landmark tax dodge
While scanning today's City Council agenda, I was struck by the number of applications for historic landmark designation. Twenty-five of the 93 agenda items, to be exact. According to City code, the purpose of a historic landmark designation "...
Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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."
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 future...
Aragon
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 ...
