{"id":2883,"date":"2012-03-02T14:26:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:53:12","slug":"urban-economics-and-where-we-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2012\/03\/urban-economics-and-where-we-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Economics and Where We Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Century\">American Century<\/a> types like to complain that this country doesn&#8217;t make anything anymore or if we do it&#8217;s artisanal cheese and not steel. But as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/19\/magazine\/adam-davidson-craft-business.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine\">this article<\/a> points out, that cheese or other basement production\u00a0is often where the big stuff starts. How can we forget Apple&#8217;s garage beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>So if economies are\u00a0shifting, at least in some small way, to local production and services, are our communities able to accomodate new jobs?<\/p>\n<p>According to Mike Pyatok, interviewed in Better Cities and Towns, &#8220;Most planning regulations are based on the Euclidean model that separates cities into zones accommodating\u00a0a single use, which true live-work is decidedly not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Pyatok is pointing out that the rules of subsidized housing preclude small scale economic ventures, the article&#8217;s author, Thomas Dolan, describes a white collar version of live-work. Rather than colonizing a Starbucks, office freelancers could work in the ground floor of a live-work building where they can share services and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>With economies shifting, our notion of what a good commuity is may shift as well. Will it continue to be the suburban ideal of green separation or will connections be more important?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">American Century types like to complain that this country doesn&#8217;t make anything anymore or if we do it&#8217;s artisanal cheese and not steel. But as\u00a0this article points out, that cheese or other basement production\u00a0is often where the big stuff starts. How can we forget Apple&#8217;s garage beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>So if economies are\u00a0shifting, at least in some small way, to local production and services, are our communities able to accomodate new jobs?<\/p>\n<p>According to Mike Pyatok, interviewed in Better Cities and Towns, &#8220;Most planning regulations are based on the Euclidean model that separates cities into zones accommodating\u00a0a single use, which true live-work is decidedly not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Pyatok is pointing out that the rules of subsidized housing preclude small scale economic ventures, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2012\/03\/urban-economics-and-where-we-live\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,63],"tags":[382,380,381,336],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-planning","category-zoning","tag-artisanal-production","tag-better-cities-and-towns","tag-live-work","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11092,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/11092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}