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Fair comment; I should credit you with NOT using it. It must have taken a sustained effort to wean yourself off it. Did you need many treatments from "Vibrant Cities Anonymous"? Or did you "not start"?

Actually, I could read just about anything into your comment "proud of their city". A cave man might be proud of HIS "city", too.

(Frank Lloyd Wright said inner city dwellers are descended from cave men, everyone else from hunter-gatherers).

And I understand that even Aucklanders are proud of THEIR city. So there is no accounting for tastes.......

While we are discussing this, I must refer to Patrick Troy's 1996 book, "The Perils of Urban Consolidation". The extracts I have saved from that book cover just about every argument that could be thrown up on this subject. It is one of the single best books that should be compulsory reading for urban planners.

Troy is especially scathing about the ".....yearning by some commentators and policy advisors to return to some halcyon past, where such urban lifestyles (eating out, engaging in the pursuits of a romanticised cafe society, enjoying the morning coffee over newspapers, exploring antique shops, bookshops and art galleries) never were the daily life experience of more than a small minority.......The proliferation of coffee shops, bistros, restaurants and sidewalk cafes in parts of our cities over recent years is a response to changing social behavior, increasing affluence, the commodification of leisure, and to the needs of tourists, but most of us use them only on special occasions or as part of our recreation.......The street gangs and their associated territorial disputes now evident in some American cities mostly come from high density environments but proponents of high density presumably do not wish to argue that they are a result of density......."

Troy scathingly points out that in some cultures, the men enjoy these fashionable lifestyles while the women remain at home performing chores and caring for children, and "first generation migrants" to Australia may well perpetuate this practice but there is no guarantee that their descendants will.

Troy points out that much of the cultural and social arguments surrounding this issue (activities for youth, etc) do not need to relate to urban form at all. Also, the often alleged benefit of "community", does not eventuate in real life in high density communities, where people react to preserve the lesser privacy and personal space they have, withdrawing from contact with others and limiting personal interactions. Furthermore, higher density living often involves a need for tenants associations etc to negotiate rules that inevitably lead to disagreements and ill feeling, on such things as the playing of music, the keeping of pets, and how community space is to be used. Community space and local amenities are often already inadequate for higher numbers of residents, and opportunity for privacy often is minimal. Troy also points out that requiring people to keep moving as their household size and circumstances change, is an effect that undermines the development of "community".

The following is another major insight that few people besides Troy possess:

"....At its heart the effect of the policy of consolidation is to defend and further entrench central city interests. It fails to recognise the multi-centred functioning of the existing cities. The policy relies on the alleged benefits of a highly centralised fixed rail public transport system without acknowledging to whom the benefits accrue at whose cost.

Because the rich can always obtain as much space as they want and can travel freely about the city, the consolidation policy is effectively targeted at lower income groups. Rather than increase choice for those with the least resources the policy has the effect of reducing it. The rich are also better able to migrate to other centres and use the protection of covenants and other legal devices. The only groups which have to endure the reduction in living space and housing standards are those on the lowest incomes....."

Troy goes on providing insight after insight:

"......One of the difficulties of critics of the policy is that it is extremely difficult for them to obtain access to information about the costs of urban services or to require that the information is made available on comparative bases. Political proponents of the policy are understandably loath to open the issue for genuine debate. Consideration of the policy is also affected by the traditional concerns in exploring many urban policy issues: those adversely affected by the policy may be weak, unorganised and have only a general public interest, whereas those who stand to gain or who are directly involved in the policy's formulation have much to gain or lose, are strong and highly organised, and have direct access to political power......"

Tim Robinson. Exactly how representative of "Tynesiders", are the social circles you move in? It is like the last refuge of the "smart growther", to talk about wonderful "vibrant" city centres and light rail systems. It is the majority of the populations in such places who are being misrepresented by the smart growthers, not by academics who are waking up about the perverse consequences of urban growth containment.

You got halfway to the inconvenient truth in your own "Fine Grain Analysis" of the Auckland Spatial Plan. You said, rightly, that it is "unworkable in its present form". But you seemed to see the unworkable cost of developments that would increase density, as something that was able to be addressed by zoning and procedural changes.

Your failure of understanding, like many planners, is on the crucial question of whether urban growth constraints cause urban land costs to increase. You seem to believe they do not. This is counter-intuitive as well as counter to the most basic understanding of economic supply and demand theory.

Furthermore, you and your urban planning colleagues seem to have missed a now-abundant strain of academic analysis in the discipline of urban economics, of which the above paper is merely the latest and not necessarily the strongest, but certainly confirming rather than contrary. Have you spent much time absorbing anything from THIS list of academic analyses?

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/academics.html

In particular, I would direct you to everything authored and co-authored by the following academics whose focus is on Britain. Alan W. Evans. Paul Cheshire. Christian Hilber. Wouter Vermeulen.

You seem to try and explain away, above, the very much higher urban land costs in Britain, and the consequences for social justice, which are severe, as merely the result of "....other issues than form....." You also accuse the paper's authors of using a model of which it is said that "......it is difficult to represent the types of disequilibrium and market failure that occur in labour or housing markets when vacancies are high, when unemployment is high or when markets are highly regulated....."

You can't have this both ways. If the model is invalid because of disequilibria and market failure as a result of markets being highly regulated, then you can't also say the highly regulated markets are not to blame for anything.....!

Alan W. Evans points out in "Economics and Land Use Planning" (2004) that the price of lots of differing sizes is a good prima facie evidence of whether people are being forced to under-consume urban land. In Britain, a larger lot fetches considerably MORE per square foot than a smaller lot, which indicates a distortionary scarcity of larger lots relative to smaller ones. In undistorted markets, the smaller the lot, the higher the price is per square foot. This is because in undistorted markets, the cost of raw land is derived from the rural land surrounding the city, and varies purely according to location efficiency and the cost of development and infrastructure.

But urban economists refer to "price discontinuities" where there ae regulatory boundaries between rural land and urban land; the price of raw land is inflated by thousands of percent in Britain, which leads to the price of raw land swamping everything else, swamping the costs of development and the costs of infrastructure and even swamping the "location efficiency" effect. This latter is why households and businesses in an inflated-land-price city have LESS choice than in a low-land-cost city. Compare the cost of a fringe McMansion AND a CBD condo in an affordable US city, with the same thing in a growth-constrained, unaffordable city, and guess in which city, people actually have "CHOICE"?

Alain Bertaud's graphs of "spatial distribution of density" in a sample set of cities around the world reveal that in Portland, Seoul, and London, population is denser near the regulatory boundary than in suburbs closer to the centre, which is not what happens in cities that do not have distorted land markets. I believe this effect can be seen visibly on Google Earth in many other cities with urban growth constraints, including in Australia and NZ. Besides the deflection of population to the "less unaffordable" fringes, very long commutes from "less unaffordable" rural towns are also far more common in cities with growth constraints and inflated urban land costs.

In so far as there is a correlation between growth constraint and reduced petrol and energy consumption, this is obviously the result of inflated housing costs leaving households with less to spend on petrol and energy (higher petrol taxes and taxes on energy often contribute too). This is nothing to do with the prescription of a particular urban form; these prescriptions actually have perverse effects, not positive ones.

Another egregious error that the advocates of growth constraint make, is that reduced consumption of space and reduced transport costs under their preferred plans result in "NET" gains. This assumption has nothing whatsoever to support it in real life. The inflation in urban land cost under conditions of growth constraint always substantially more than swamp the ability of people to trade off space or transport costs in the cause of affordability. The reality is that within a few years of growth constraints being enforced, new lots of one tenth of an acre are several times the price of what a half acre used to be, and are the major part of housing costs even in spite of their small size (wheras the larger size lots in undistorted markets are only ever 15% to 20% of the total cost of housing).

Because the price of urban land always slopes up from fringe to centre, the inflated land price effect is more and more severe closer to the centre. This is why inner city Condos quadruple in price while fringe McMansions "only" double. If planners want to make the inner city the destination for more people than the fringe, the way to do this is to compulsorily acquire land nearer the centre and develop it at cost and sell the developments at cost, to "the deserving"; at the same time as penalising urban fringe development to make it more expensive. It would also be necessary to provide employment of the right kind for the new residents of the inner city; it is no use moving them to the inner city if their jobs are all at the urban fringe and in remote "industrial" zones.

So you have to re-invent, by force, the pre-automobile city. The market, which means the real estate market, works completely contrary to this objective. "Subsidies" of sprawl are vastly over-rated. We should be learning this from the perverse consequences of blunt regulatory prescriptions. There are clear market forces and consumer choices at work running in the opposite direction to the plans. So only compulsory acquisition of land will forestall the "market" effects. Good luck with that.

Hopefully you are starting to see some connection between this and what you found in your Fine Grain Analysis of Auckland.

It is the conclusions of Wendell Cox on the correlation between density and congestion that are logical, and yours that are illogical. Of course if population is doubled and average travel only drops a few percent, congestion will be very much worse. In fact because traffic ends up stop-start instead of free-flowing in some parts of the network, not only is the number of vehicles higher but actual throughput of the network is very much lower. International data now show that the USA's infamous low density cities have had remarkably stable work-trip travel times while it is cities that have planned against cars that now have far worse congestion and local air pollution and long trip times for trips of all kinds. The USA's low density cities have more miles travelled and more petrol consumption because the people have the disposable income and the trips of all kinds are easier to make.

The decentralisation of employment and improved jobs-housing balance is the modern day norm now, regardless of density. But trips of ALL kinds take longer in growth-constrained cities with higher density everywhere (such as London and other British cities), even to local shops or dropping off children at school. Advocates of urban growth containment are making an egregious failure of scientific method when they assume that linear gains in urban efficiency will be the result of increased density. In fact the inefficiencies of congestion vastly outweigh the "gains" in shorter distances and mode shift, and this is before we even start looking at the "cost" in urban land that is thousands of times more expensive.

The various academics I quote above also find a momentous connection between Britain's planning system and lower economic productivity per se. Cheshire and Sheppard, "The Welfare Economics of Land Use Planning" (2002) find the effect on the economy to be equivalent to a 4% income tax, and the research at the LSE since states that that figure will be rising.

There are actually numerous ways in which LOW urban density is far more compatible with "sustainability" targets than high density is. It is utterly irrational of the whole environmental movement to be so fixated on high density "solutions". Car use is just one facet of energy consumption and one that has become rapidly more and more efficient, by the way (in contrast to public transport). Low density living can make much better use of sun and fresh air and wind and grow-your-own and recycling and composting and barbecues and fireplaces and shade trees and interaction with nature (in contrast to having to concrete over everything where the people are crammed in together) and surface permeability and local biodiversity and "geothermal" heating and cooling systems. I pick that a model city of the low density sustainability kind would beat the high density kind hands down.

The high density model also seems to assume that people will all work in jobs that require very little space and consume very little resources i.e. bureaucracies and head offices and so on. This is a very odd belief to combine with a belief that resource use will be diminished in the new economy, because office jobs can only exist as a draw-down on the wealth created in the more land-intensive, resource-using sectors of the economy; this in the urban economy as well as the rural one. An international financial transactions tax would be the coup-de-grace to Britain's economy because the flow of money into London from all around the world would reduce, and Britain has already strangled all the traditional wealth creating urban industries it might have had.

It is a double irony that many of the left-wingers who hate global finance, also love the mass public transport systems in Manhattan and London; but remain blissfully unaware that if "global capital" was disempowered as they wish for, suddenly their wonderful model high density cities would need to find something else to do to exist on, and this would certainly involve using more land and resources and actually getting hands dirty again.