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The Antiplanner’s Library: Coming Apart0
- November 15, 2012
One of the subthemes of the Antiplanner’s latest book is that there is a growing divide between the middle class (meaning people with white-collar jobs and their families) and the working class (meaning people with blue-collar jobs and their families). Charles Murray‘s latest book, Coming Apart, explores this split in … Continue reading
READ MOREBack in the Air Again0
- November 14, 2012
Today the Antiplanner is flying to Oakland to speak about Gridlock at CSU East Bay. The event is sponsored by the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies. Tonight, I’ll be speaking in Pleasant Hill to a Contra Costa County citizens’ group about Best-Laid Plans in in particular about problems with urban planning as it is […]
READ MOREDensity’s Parking Impact0
- November 13, 2012
The City of Portland has approved numerous massive four- and five-story apartment buildings in neighborhoods of single-family homes separated by streets of single-story shops. These buildings stress the infrastructure built to handle a smaller population, which is most obvious in the increased traffic and parking problems–especially since many of the buildings are designed without parking. […]
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What Happened to the Environmental Movement?0
- November 12, 2012
The environmental movement has lost its way, argues a Montana filmmaker, who is using Kickstart to raise funds for his film about the movement. J.D. King isn’t anti-environmentalist, but he is skeptical about where the movement is going. Other than what can be seen in the above pitch, I don’t know what the movie will […]
READ MOREThe Case for Privatizing Amtrak0
- November 9, 2012
On Monday, the Cato Institute will release the Antiplanner’s latest paper, Stopping the Runaway Train: The Case for Privatizing Amtrak. Antiplanner readers can preview the paper today. Amtrak’s Empire Builder outside of Glacier National Park, September 13, 2010. (Click image for a larger view.) The case against Amtrak is simple. Before Amtrak took over the […]
READ MORESmart-Growth Advocates Have No Shame0
- November 8, 2012
Advocates of smart growth–density and transit–are either consummate liars or complete idiots. Those are the only explanations for many of the statements that come out of their mouths. The latest is the claim that Superstorm Sandy proves we need to spend more on transit. What Superstorm Sandy proved was that concentrating a lot of people […]
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