{"id":699,"date":"2009-09-11T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2009-09-11T11:27:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T17:27:31","slug":"ryan-avent-on-robert-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/ryan-avent-on-robert-moses\/","title":{"rendered":"ryan avent on robert moses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Avent has a <a href=\"http:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2009\/09\/09\/what-should-we-learn-from-moses-and-jacobs\/\">very interesting post<\/a> at streetsblog on the problems with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/books-and-arts\/what-city-needs\">rehabilitation<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_moses\">Robert Moses<\/a>, who is appealing urbanists for roughly the same reason that Thomas Friedman is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/09\/opinion\/09friedman.html?_r=1\">pining for autocracy<\/a>.\u00a0 The link Avent provides to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econ.brown.edu\/fac\/Nathaniel_Baum-Snow\/hwy-sub.pdf\">study<\/a> which concludes that &#8220;one new highway passing through a central city reduces its population by about 18 percent&#8221; is particularly interesting, as I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen a quantitiative analysis of that effect before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Avent has a very interesting post at streetsblog on the problems with the rehabilitation of Robert Moses, who is appealing urbanists for roughly the same reason that Thomas Friedman is pining for autocracy.\u00a0 The link Avent provides to a study which concludes that &#8220;one new highway passing through a central city reduces its population [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[857,101,848,186,87],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-economics","tag-highway","tag-infrastructure","tag-robert-moses","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}