Category: Primer Posts

Cities mean traffic jams

17 April, 2009 (10:14) | Cities, Essential posts, Housing, New York City, Primer Posts, Theory, Transportation | No comments

Cities mean traffic jams.
 

Broadway, New York City
 
Yes, you can have traffic jams without cities, but you cannot have cities without traffic jams. 
 

1962
 
As illustrated in this throwaway piece from New York Times, that doesn’t stop politicians from decrying them and wishing they would go away:
 
Speaking of traffic-taming measures for Broadway around Times Square and Herald [...]

Rules you don’t enforce are worse than useless

18 March, 2009 (15:03) | Essential posts, Policy, Primer Posts, Regulation, Theory | No comments


Cities imply optionality and that requires privacy: Part 2, the price of peeping

20 February, 2009 (10:39) | Cities, Politics, Primer Posts, Speculation, Theory | No comments


Cities imply optionality and that requires privacy: Part 1, the virtue of peeping

19 February, 2009 (12:16) | Cities, Policy, Primer Posts, Speculation, Theory | No comments


The Law of Economic Pressure: Part 2, China’s push?

10 February, 2009 (10:41) | Capital markets, Essential posts, Global markets, Primer Posts, Speculation, Subprime, US News | No comments