Titus, Don’t forget Mises Street in the I’On neighborhood of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. There’s another Mises Street in the Newpoint neighborhood of Beaufort, SC.
Ludwig von Mises is probably the best economist / philosopher of the German speaking world. However, precisely because he destroyed the leftist illusions, he was never popular. In today’s Germany, there are exactly zero public streets and places named after him. For comparison, 391 are named after Karl Marx.
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This is the building equivalent of iatrogenesis - medically induced malady.
There was once a time in the not too distant past when governments had a non-existent to negligible role in this. Building codes and inspections, where they existed, were the purview of insurers who adjusted owner’s rates depending on the methods of construction and the area’s particular risks.
The private sector responsibility gradually transferred to a public sector power over roughly the same period that municipalities adopted zoning, with municipalities often hiring planners and adopting zoning ordinances at the same time they hired inspectors and implemented permit review.
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Moses also told Charleston, "Don't try to compete with other cities. Let other cities which do not have as much tradition use more modern structures. The most important thing is not to move away from the colonial architectural values. Traditional things should be emphasized."
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“The medium is the message.” ~Marshall McLuhan
Settlement patterns shape how we live. Walkable places offer independence through proximity. Auto-centric places make it conditional on cars and the roads built for them. When daily life requires these media, consumption becomes a ce.
Settlement patterns shape how we live. Walkable places offer independence through proximity. Auto-centric places make it conditional on cars and the roads built for them. When daily life requires these media, consumption becomes a ce.
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Related…“Word spread quickly about how the tight quarters [of Newpoint] have their biggest benefits certain times of the year…’At Halloween, it’s maximum candy for minimum effort.’” The Wall Street Journal (Dec. 4, 1996).
If you have only one guiding principle in building a neighborhood, maximizing trick-or-treatiestness would be a pretty good one.
North Shelmore Boulevard in I'On ranked among the nation's best streets for trick-or-treating.
HT @VincentGGraham
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If you have only one guiding principle in building a neighborhood, maximizing trick-or-treatiestness would be a pretty good one.
North Shelmore Boulevard in I'On ranked among the nation's best streets for trick-or-treating.
HT @VincentGGraham
North Shelmore Boulevard in I'On ranked among the nation's best streets for trick-or-treating.
HT @VincentGGraham
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If traffic engineering were an applied science, Paris would have more stop signs than Peoria.
But it doesn’t. Traffic engineering is politics.
On Double Take, @dakotadeady breaks down the politics of stop signs.
youtube.com/watch?v=Z7-ugL…
But it doesn’t. Traffic engineering is politics.
On Double Take, @dakotadeady breaks down the politics of stop signs.
youtube.com/watch?v=Z7-ugL…
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Nice piece on Mugdock Castle, Sullivan’s Island, SC. postandcourier.com/business/real_…
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Cycle 1: the product offered, isolation, is scarce. Growth eats the product. An epidemic of loneliness & divisive politics results.
Cycle 2: Growth enhances the offer.
The modes do not share a gearbox. You can’t run Cycle 2 through Cycle 1 streets and expect belonging to appear.
Cycle 2: Growth enhances the offer.
The modes do not share a gearbox. You can’t run Cycle 2 through Cycle 1 streets and expect belonging to appear.
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Perhaps the best, but least known work on transportation equity is Ivan Illich’s 1973 book, “Energy and Equity.” In it he postulates a “speed class” hierarchy within society.
Transport equity is a new term for an old idea.
Elizabeth Dilworth was a transport equity advocate.
In the 1940s and 1950s, though most US households had an automobile, most women did not drive.
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Never thought I’d be saying this, but go SCDOT! A Traffic Calming Study underway at Doughty and Rutledge Street next to Ashley Hall School in downtown Charleston.
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Last week, @nntaleb welcomed me to his library for a casual @yeomanpodcast discussion. After a late afternoon Turkish coffee, we discussed books, techno-feudalism, immigration, China, AI, and more. Thank you, my friend, for another great conversation.
yeomanpodcast.com/2026/08/07/nas…
yeomanpodcast.com/2026/08/07/nas…
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Modernist SUBurbanism = AE (Artificial Environments). “There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.” ~Jane Jacobs
TRADITIONAL URBANISM vs
MODERNIST SUBURBANISM
built by people .............. prescribed by planners
efficient .......................... wasteful
beautiful ........................ ugly
inspired ......................... depressing
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Brought to mind Frédéric Bastiat’s famous 1850 essay “That Which is Seen and that Which is Not Seen,” especially the section on Public Works. Despite clear failures of distortionary policies like zoning and road subsidies, they are perpetuated by special interests and bureaucratic inertia. Imaginations are stunted.
bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.…
bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.…
“In his famed Fourth of July address, Frederick Douglass implored us to think critically:
“The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced” (p. 366).
Douglass argued that before a wrong can be righted, the wrong must be felt. A hundred years prior, Paine understood this, for he said that “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
The job of a planner, and the job of a writer, which I feel compelled to do, is to question the familiar.”
- Billy Cooney, American Land Use at 250
Published at @SouthernUrb
southernurbanism.org/p/seeing-what-…
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QUOTE: When I began writing for Common Edge almost a decade ago, I resolved to let readers know when a significant book appeared that might change their view of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. I missed the publication of one book that I have subsequently used in my practice, and believe to be one of the best handbooks, histories, and teaching texts written in the present century. This year, a revised edition of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns (John Wiley & Sons) was released. Co-authored by John Massengale and Victor Dover, I was delighted to have watched it emerge over several years as a friend of Massengale’s. commonedge.org/why-better-str…
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