the positive critique

[Michael Perelman]

What is democratic land use?  Developers ramming through special subsidies
for themselves?  Putting pollution in the midst of the poor .....   Are you
confusing democratic with market driven?

Brad De Long wrote:


>
> Ah. But how, exactly? In the U.S. we have lots of local democratic
> land-use planning, and yet our urban design seems grossly inferior to
> that of, say, Baron Haussman...
>
> Brad DeLong

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu