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Over at Reason, Jesse Walker interviews William T. Bogart, economist and author of Don't Call It Sprawl: Metropolitan Structure in the Twenty-First Century:A simple test to apply to any purported definition of sprawl: Apply it to Central Park in Manhattan. In most cases, you will find that it implies that Central Park should be developed. For fun, you can point this out to the definer, who will quickly assure you that he or she didn't mean it that way. [hat-tip: Virginia Postrel]
Wendy Waters offers an excellent run-down of the move to construct Aerotropoli (planned cities hubbed around an airport), and looks at how these might effect business decisions and add another incentive for urban density.Mark Cuban on how local newspapers are helped, not just hurt, by Google here, and on RSS and the future of syndication here.A laissez-faire Brooklynite-become-NYMBYite tells the story of his transformation.
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