SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (62706)4/25/2005 9:42:09 AM
From: Moominoid  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Elroy - Don't get me wrong, I am an environmentalist and in favor of planning to some degree. I also lived in an overplanned deliberately sprawling city: Canberra. As an environmental economist/geographer I like to point out that often things have costs. Sometimes there are win win results but not always.

There is a deliberate policy to place agricultural preserves around each town. Towns cannot sprawl out into each other replacing farmland.

You seem to be saying here that this leads to higher costs as I suggested?

Munich is much smaller than Los Angeles or New York in population... Only London and Paris in Western Europe (maybe the Ruhr too) get anywhere near the population levels.

If planning regulation is constant over time then we couldn't identify its effects on prices in a single location like LA. And then income and interest rates will dominate over the short-run at least. Over the long-run the increasing city size would ahve an effect?

What surprised me recently is the prices in small villages in the eastern Netherlands. Seemded a long way from the big cities in the western Netherlands. A friend who lived there moved over the border to Germany and a longer commute because of it. (now she moved to the place with maybe the second highest house prices in America :)).
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News