Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Economics

Vehicle City

By Ethan Kent | Jul 16, 2006 | No Comments

Foreign correspondence from Ethan Kent at Project for Public Spaces: I was working in Flint, Michigan the first part of this week. Remarkably, for a city that was planned for everything but people, there are still some great people working to create a genuine "Steets Rennaissance." Flint originally built itself around the car and, after […]

Car Ownership Cost Calculator

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 29, 2006 | 2 Comments

The Volvo has stolen $214,177.23 from our son’s college education. Calculate how many grande latte’s you could be buying with the money you spent on that last muffler job: "The Real Costs of Car Ownership."

Charles Komanoff’s “Fuel Tax Magic”

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 28, 2006 | No Comments

New York City economist and activist Charles Komanoff has been focused lately on developing and promoting the idea of a "carbon tax." Carbon taxes are still still very much considered fringe economic theory and politically unviable, though, as you read Komanoff’s latest essay in Grist, you have to wonder how long that will last. The […]