The Antiplanner’s Library: Visiting Paradise
One of the Antiplanner’s co-speakers during a couple of events in Honolulu is David Callies, a law professor and author of two books on Hawaii land-use law: Regulating Paradise and Preserving Paradise....
View ArticleCalifornia High-Speed Rail in Trouble
New reports have raised questions about and spurred opposition to California’s grandiose high-speed rail plans. First, last April, the California state auditor reported that the state’s high-speed rail...
View ArticleWhaddya Know
It turns out that urban planners really did cause the housing bubble. What’s more, even leftist bloggers like Matthew Yglesias appear to be persuaded by the evidence.
View ArticleThe Climate Trust Scam
A couple of years ago, the Antiplanner described a Portland program of accepting carbon-offset funds to do traffic signal coordination. While I support signal coordination, the claimed benefits seemed...
View ArticleArithmetic-Challenged Favor High-Speed Rail
On Monday, the Washington Post published a devastating critique of high-speed rail written by journalist Robert Samuelson. In fewer than 800 words, Samuelson blows up just about all the arguments put...
View ArticleWorld Boondoggle Center
The World Trade Center that was destroyed almost ten years ago was a frequently photographed symbol of New York City, but it was also a huge boondoggle of the New York & New Jersey Port Authority...
View ArticleAnother Bad Idea
Someone named Marc Fasteau urges the United States to adopt an industrial policy. Because, after all, it worked so well in Japan (two lost decades of nearly zero economic growth), China (rapid growth...
View ArticleCrony Infrastructuralism
Last night, the Antiplanner dreamed that Apple, the company with the highest market capitalization in the world, was spending some of its $97 billion in cash on roads, bridges, and other local...
View ArticlePlanning Is Destroying Britain
The Economist reviews housing prices in London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, and what do you know, it finds that high housing prices are due to urban planning. “The biggest constraint...
View ArticleThe Continuing Saga of the American-Made Streetcar
Portland Streetcar, the non-profit organization that operates streetcars in Portland, is demanding that the city cough up $145,000 to fix its brand-new, American-made streetcar. Let’s take a look at...
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