Property Values 11 Times Higher Across Portland's Urban Growth Boundary
One of the starkest impacts of smart growth policies is the huge differentials in property prices that occur on virtually adjacent properties on either side of an urban growth boundary.The extent to...
View ArticleAustralia Central Banker: Higher House Prices a "Social Problem"
Glenn Stevens, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia expressed concern about the growing gap in housing affordability in the nation to a parliamentary committee on Friday. Stevens raised...
View ArticleMaking Stuff Up at Atlantic Cities
Editor Sommer Mathis over at The Atlantic Cities has taken to making stuff up. In a recent post she reported on a dispute in the city of Seattle over minimum parking requirements relating to multi-unit...
View ArticleSydney to Abandon Radical Urban Containment Policy
The New South Wales government has proposed a new Metropolitan Strategy for the Sydney area which would significantly weaken the urban containment policy (also called urban consolidation, smart growth,...
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