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Andrew Alexander Price
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Andrew Alexander Price's personal blog at andrewalexanderprice.com covers economics and design. Since 2014, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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- /blog20130330.php2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-27
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I often think about big cities where people have reasonably priced housing options available. Two great examples for me are Tokyo and Berlin. I think a big factor in both is a combination of dense traditional city planning, and transportation. I really enjoyed this piece on traditional cities: http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20130330.php
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on “Request For Research: Basic Income”- Mz · 2014-07-30
Submitted Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit as a story · 295 points
HN discussion make sure it's 'human-scale' ala http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20130330.php
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on “New Cities”Submitted A Traditional City Primer as a story · 244 points
HN discussionThis article discusses the damage that empty walls (or blocks) do to the pedestrian realm. You might find it interesting. http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20151021.php
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on “Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive”Submitted Engineers Should Not Design Streets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSomething like this maybe? http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20151203.php Also, Amsterdam is creating a new neighbourhood like that: https://nltimes.nl/2017/11/23/amsterdam-set-build-massive-ne... >The goal for Haven-Stad is to have everything within walking or cycling distance. "As a resident you can bring your children to school on foot or by bicycle and you can work around the corner", the city said.
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on “Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive”Submitted The Case for Small Commercial Spaces as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOf course the daunting obstacle is changing the mindset of suburban planners and nimbys. The zoning ordinances that have dominated planning in the USA since the 50's ban this in large swaths of America.. New Urbanism made progress creating denser planning in the last 30 years, but focused too much on high density mixed use. Adding small shops to residential streets is definitely the one area that they've really fail…
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on “Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods”Submitted You Don't Need Transit to Build a Walkable Place as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of another, similar blog post: Let's Build A Traditional City (And Make A Profit) (2013) https://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20130330.php ...which was also discussed on the HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8111406 There is also a sequel post: Let's Build A Village From A Parking Lot (2015) https://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20151203.php
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on “How to build a small town in Texas”Submitted Housing Unaffordability Is the Result of Artifical Scarcity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe imposition of residential only zoning all over the world is, in retrospect, a huge mistake. This has been posted on HN before, but the Japanese zoning system makes a lot of sense: https://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20191002.php
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on “Portland passes low-density zoning reform”- Mz · 2014-08-02
Submitted Thoughts of a Pedestrian as a story · 2 points
HN discussion See also: http://andrewalexanderprice.com/blog.php for lots of pictures.
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on “Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street?”Submitted A Traditional City Primer (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"A street is the living room of the community." http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20161027.php
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on “Fighting Loneliness with Public Living Rooms”Submitted Let's build a city (and make a profit) (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNYC isn't the only model for density. Small houses on small lots can and does create lots of housing in places that don't typically come to mind when you think of dense (as this blog points out, Provincetown MA is one example: http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20141104.php#.XUHrGO... )
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on “High-Density Housing Near Public Transit Is Aim of San Diego Code Change”Submitted Setbacks and Land Consolidation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI find that places built for cars tend to be unpleasant. Where people walk more, the urban environment is often kept in a state that is more enjoyable. I especially enjoy narrow streets. a particularly nice, narrow street in my city: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2b/ea/06/2bea... an article on the benefits of narrow streets: http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20140422.php
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on “My township calls my lawn ‘a nuisance’ (2015)”Submitted Let's Infill a Neighbourhood (And Make a Profit) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>We've decided that our collective quality of life and the benefits conferred us by allowing private transportation far outweigh the harms Speak for yourself. At least in cities, cars and car-centric cities have absolutely destroyed our economies. People drive for trip less than a mile because walking is miserable, and walking is miserable because the city is built around driving and without regard for pedestrians n…
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on “Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US”Submitted Some Thoughts on Narrow Streets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionToronto is already one of the best walkable cities in North America (Jane Jacobs even moved there) Why not fix a place that has more problems, like this suggestion, Let's Build A Village From A Parking Lot http://andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20151203.php#.WejmJ4hOk2...
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on “Google’s Founders Wanted to Shape a City – Toronto Is Their Chance”You might find this interesting, it was posted here a while back: http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20131204.php#.VehYvr... He had an article on Tokyo, but I can't find it. Apparently Tokyo meets many of these criteria and is pleasant to be in, despite being new construction. Which is why I'm wondering if we have any North American examples.
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on “The paradox of soil: Land has returned as a constraint on growth”Narrow streets :) http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20130330.php#.V47PTc...
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on “Has China Reached Peak Urbanization?”Jim Kunstler's podcast is good when he doesn't veer off into peak oil civilizational collapse speculation http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ Granola Shotgun https://granolashotgun.com/ http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/ I really enjoyed the books 'The Great Good Place' by Oldenberg , 'Streets are for People' by Rudufsky and the Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler
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on “Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US?”This looks eerily similar to an article by Andrew Alexander Price: http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20121015.php
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on “Place and Non-Place (2009)”Reading this, all I could think of was that they had a once-per-century chance to do this [0], but they blew it. From the photos it looks like they built the usual gross car-centric suburban quasi city, with a few apartment buildings thrown in. Though the article did mention a metro. [0] http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20131204.php
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on “The Most Audacious Real Estate Project”
