"The primary problem with current cities is that they are extremely car-centric. We don't realise this because it's just everyday life and we assume that cars make transportation easier and more convenient, but this is false. Car-centric designs are so bad that they make driving worse....
"Remember this fact: cities and their infrastructure are government funded and planned. The car-centric model was developed because the government mass-funded roads to be built for cars; and the government, as it does for everything, has terrible incentives. So it did not do this because it was more efficient to be car-centric and respond to market demand but because of public choice incentives...."The primary problem with most urbanists however .[including the video maker above].. is that they are not libertarians. ... [T]here is the market urbanist movement. But it gets little attention....
"It's important we prove we don't need the government, even the Dutch government, to make cities beautiful. Public choice must get out of the way."~ SolarxPvP, from his post 'Market Urbanism: Another Panacea'
LINKS:
- Market Urbanism
- @Market Urbanism on TWITTER
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Thought you might appreciate this article, Am I Tired of London—or of Life?
It is this sentimental, irreverent, cheeky chappie’s London that the pursuit of a cooler, woker, hipper cosmopolis has somehow mislaid. In the terms popularized by writer David Goodhart, a city of Somewheres has been supplanted by a city of Anywheres. This is not a question of linguistic, religious, or ethnic origins: Londoners are more diverse even than New Yorkers. But putting down roots here is not for everyone—after Brexit, there was an exodus of Europeans to the Continent. Yet those who think of London not as interchangeable with other global cities but as their permanent home are ever-thinner on the ground. A London without Londoners would not be London but a mere geographical expression.
Good piece, thanks. What to do when, as he says, "the urban is no longer so urbane."
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