Meeting with a Regional Planner

An Aussie who calls himself the Unconventional Economist, also known as Leith van Onselen, created and posted this little cartoon about dealing with regional planners. He based much of it on a script by another blogger named Ross Elliot.

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The Unconventional Economist, by the way, has written an impressive series of articles on housing bubbles and policies in various countries, including Canada, China, Germany (one country that didn’t have a bubble), the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. He has also written about U.S. housing markets, including California, Phoenix, and Texas, and of course plenty of posts about Australia. The Antiplanner agrees with almost everything he says, which means many readers of this blog will not.

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11 Responses to Meeting with a Regional Planner

  1. msetty says:

    The fact van Onselen re-posted an article by Wendell Cox, well known and multiple times proven prevericator, on his blog is enough to discredit him in my book.

  2. TMI says:

    When is a taking not a taking? When it’s conservation.
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  3. metrosucks says:

    Who cares what you think, msetty. You believe that anyone opposed to rail out of concern for its cost and low utility is mentally ill.

  4. the highwayman says:

    Metrosucks, you only hate rail, because it’s rail.

    Roads get unlimited funding though don’t worry about costs there.

  5. C. P. Zilliacus says:

    metrosucks wrote:

    Who cares what you think, msetty. You believe that anyone opposed to rail out of concern for its cost and low utility is mentally ill.

    metrosucks, I tend to agree with you much more than I disagree with you – but – the above was uncalled for. And I am motivated to say that precisely because I usually agree with you.

    On the flipside, I probably disagree with msetty more than I agree with him, but so what? He offers comments here that are generally respectful and polite.

  6. C. P. Zilliacus says:

    msetty wrote:

    The fact van Onselen re-posted an article by Wendell Cox, well known and multiple times proven prevericator, on his blog is enough to discredit him in my book.

    Uncalled for. The above sounds like guilt by association.

    For the record, I have known Wendell for many years, and yes, I usually agree with him. Agree or disagree with Wendell, I don’t think he tries to hide his point of view.

  7. metrosucks says:

    Point taken, CP. But I can never bring myself to view msetty as a reasonable or nice individual. He views those of us who disagree with him, with no more than contempt.

  8. the highwayman says:

    metrosucks said: Point taken, CP. But I can never bring myself to view msetty as a reasonable or nice individual. He views those of us who disagree with him, with no more than contempt.

    THWM: I don’t agree with every thing the Mr.Setty has said either, though at least he’s not a fucking sociopath like you, CPZ, O’Toole & Cox!

  9. Dan says:

    why should government agencies have the power to make some people rich and impoverish others?

    Exactly why the OWS movement has traction. The concentration of wealth in this country has all but eliminated democracy here.

    Nonetheless, several planning websites have similar videos with ‘planners’ lamenting the process handed to them by electeds and the system. Easily found.

    DS

  10. metrosucks says:

    Nonetheless, several planning websites have similar videos with ‘planners’ lamenting the process handed to them by electeds and the system. Easily found.

    Hmm, let’s see. Here is what your typical planner really thinks, and I quote:

    What are some of the remaining tactics and events most likely to motivate progressive advocates in the future?

    1. An enormous (and preferably abrupt) increase in the cost of gas, utilities or food. The important caution, however, is that these can lead to reactionary, militarized, autocratic politics.

    2. A severe economic recession or depression, although Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs instructs us that progressive politics often plays second fiddle when one needs to first figure out how to put food on the table.

    3. Severe traffic congestion, although this can counterproductively and ruinously lead uninformed communities to widen the road. Road widening as a response to congestion, however, is now much less likely given the extreme financial crisis being suffered at all levels of government.

    from http://domz60.wordpress.com/, where even more vile hate of this kind is spewed, daily.

  11. the highwayman says:

    Metrosucks, you’re a damn sociopath!

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