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Is the Honeymoon Over for Richard Florida?
July 4, 2009, 9:48amRichard Florida has become the equivalent of a rock star in urban policy circles based on his idea that the new elites--professionals, artists, dot.com entrepreneurs, etc.--are the key to urban development and redevelopment. But, after moving to Toronto, a crescendo of critics may be bringing him down to earth.
Does Breaking Down Policy Silos Mean the End of Federalism?
June 25, 2009, 7:55pmMany transporation, housing, and urban commentators are praising federal efforts to break down policy silos, treating housing, transportation, and the environment as largely one integrated policy approach. A consequence of this may be the end of Federalism in a meaningful sense.
Free Market Views on Transportation, Land Use Available
June 25, 2009, 6:03amDVDs and powerpoints from the American Dream Coalition's annual conference are not available at its web site for downloading.
Where the Growth Is: Outside of Urban Areas
June 24, 2009, 7:29pmReducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Without Reducing Mobility
Focusing on cutting vehicle miles traveled is the wrong approach
June 9, 2009All of transportation (including trucking, airlines, barges, etc.) contributes 27.9 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Personal vehicles (cars and light trucks) are 61 percent of that; hence, personal vehicles are the source of 17 percent of GHGs, not one-third, as you will often hear. Second, greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles are a function of speed. Stop-and-go driving (as in congestion) produces much greater GHG emissions than steady-speed driving between 30 and 60 miles per hour; above about 60 mph, GHGs increase fairly rapidly.
Transit-Oriented Development Not Immune to Downturn
June 6, 2009, 9:27amAs the economy continues to suffer, Rockville Town Center experiences an exodus of high-end retail. The question is whether this marquee transit-oriented development in the Washington, D.C. metro area can recover.
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- Housing Market Resilience and Affordability in Houston, Texas
Houston's housing market has been more resilient than other Texas cities
Samuel Staley
February 27, 2009 - Statewide Growth Management and Housing Affordability in Florida
Samuel Staley and Leonard Gilroy
October 1, 2007 - Analysis of California's Proposition 90
The Protect Our Homes Act
Leonard Gilroy
October 18, 2006 - Addressing California's Affordable Housing Shortage
Alternatives to Proposition 1C
Leonard Gilroy, Adam Summers and Samuel Staley
September 1, 2006 - Statewide Regulatory Takings Reform
Exporting Oregon's Measure 37 to Other States
Leonard Gilroy
April 1, 2006 - Protect Ohio Homes
Reason Amicus Brief
November 1, 2005 - Restricting Eminent Domain
Model State Statutory Language & Local Ordinance/Charter Provision
July 1, 2005 - New Approaches to Affordable Housing
Chris Fiscelli
May 1, 2005 - Eminent Domain, Private Property, and Redevelopment
An Economic Analysis
Samuel Staley and John P. Blair
February 3, 2005 - Affordable Housing in Monterrey County
Analyzing the General Plan Update and Applied Development Economics Report
Benjamin Powell, Edward Stringham and Adam Summers
August 1, 2004 - Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work? Evidence from Los Angeles County and Orange County
Benjamin Powell and Edward Stringham
June 1, 2004 - Housing Supply and Affordability
Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work?
Benjamin Powell and Edward Stringham
April 1, 2004 - Are We Paving Paradise?
Randall O'Toole
January 1, 2004 - Smart Growth in Action, Part II
Case Studies in Housing Capacity and Development from Ventura County, California
Geoffrey Segal, William Fulton, Susan Weaver and Lily Okamura
May 1, 2003 - San Jose Demonstrates the Limits of Urban Growth Boundaries and Urban Rail
Randall O'Toole
March 1, 2003 - Smart Growth and Housing Affordability
Evidence from Statewide Planning Laws
Samuel Staley and Leonard Gilroy
January 1, 2002 - Smart Growth in Action
Housing Capacity and Development in Ventura County
William Fulton, Chris Williamson, Kathleen Mallory and Jeff Jones
January 1, 2002 - Urban Sprawl and Quality Growth in Ohio
Samuel Staley and Matthew Hisrich
December 1, 2001 - Older Suburbs
Crabgrass Slums or New Urban Frontier?
Joel Kotkin
October 1, 2001 - Market-oriented Approaches to Growth
Outsmarting Sprawl's Impacts
Samuel Staley
August 1, 2001 - Giving a Leg Up to Bootstrap Entrepreneurship
Expanding Economic Opportunity in America's Urban Centers
Samuel Staley, Howard Husock, David J. Bobb, Sterling Burnett, Laura Creasy and Wade Hudson
February 1, 2001 - Preparing for the Storm
Preserving Water Resources with Stormwater Utilities
Barrett P. Walker
January 1, 2001 - The Vanishing Farmland Myth and the Smart-growth Agenda
Samuel Staley
January 1, 2000 - Urban-Growth Boundaries and Housing Affordability
Lessons from Portland
Samuel Staley
October 1, 1999 - "Urban Sprawl" and the Michigan Landscape
A Market-Oriented Approach
Samuel Staley
September 1, 1999 - The Sprawling of America
In Defense of a Dynamic City
Samuel Staley
January 1, 1999 - Market Oriented Planning
Principles and Tools
Samuel Staley and Lynn Scarlett
November 1, 1997 - Repairing the Ladder
Toward a New Housing Paradigm
Howard Husock
July 1, 1996 - Revitalizing Our Cities
Perspectives from America's New Breed of Mayors
William D. Eggers
March 1, 1995 - Land Use Reform Through Performance Zoning
William D. Eggers
May 1, 1990
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