The Antiplanner’s faithful ally (and frequent commenter on this blog), Jim Karlock, has posted 28 videos of presentations at the 2007 Preserving the American Dream conference, which was held in San Jose. The Antiplanner helped organize this conference
Most of these presentations are excellent. Alan Pisarski, Sam Staley (on public-private partnerships), and Adrian Moore do a great job of decontructing federal transportation funding — and Gabriel Roth and Fred Foldvary make the case for completely privatizing roads and transit.
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Chris Norby takes on tax-increment financing in California, Loraine Wallace Rowe gives a San Jose perspective, and Don Racheter follows with research on the subject from Iowa. John Forester (who, I didn’t know at the time, is the son of C.S. Forester) explains why much of what we think we know about making streets safe for bicycles is wrong.
There are plenty of other presentations that don’t fall easily into any particular category. Perhaps most interesting is Jim Dale’s explanation of why giving cars to poor people is good public policy. If you enjoy watching videos, these presentations are both entertaining and informative.
“Smart Growth Jim Crow”?!?!?!?
Keep it classy American Dream.
Thank you for posting the videos. They were very informative.
After watching 20 minutes of the explanation why roads should be privitized, I didn’t hear anything but extremely theoretical arguments for privitization. Nothing in the presentation even tried to explain how it would be practical, and it doesn’t take much thought to see enormous practical problems.
Maybe I am missing something, but I can’t see how privitizing roads is at all practical.
Housing in San Jose is expensive because you have the highest median income of any city of its size. I’m sure that was discussed at the ADC, right? Probably not, let’s just totally blame something else like smart growth!
Throwing around words like “Jim Crow” is nothing more than a relatively more sedate Godwin’s Law straw man.
Borealis said: Maybe I am missing something, but I can’t see how privitizing roads is at all practical.
THWM: Here’s an example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0S8T93d88s
WS,
Consider also that higher incomes might be a determinant of both the demand for and supply of regulation, especially when it comes to land use.
MJ:
I have considered it and will not look beyond what you’ve said. I have never heard anything of higher incomes caused by more land use regs (I suppose higher incomes needed to make up for higher housing costs, but really it’s not supported). You’d probably find that the real estate price rise in San Jose occurred after the income rise and tech boom of the area – not the other way around as you’re positing.
San Jose is the tech capital of the US. They have some high profile, rich people there. This naturally inflates real estate prices. Furthermore, you can’t blame land-use regulations on everything like ADC does. Median home prices in San Jose have dropped +$250,000 over the course of a year from the high of $650,000 median price.
Real estate speculation and high profile employment center caused most of those high home prices. If land use regulation are mostly to blame, then why aren’t the home prices still artificially high right now? They’re not, and have dropped 38% in median price.