ana008: Way Beyond the Roads | The Tom Woods Show Ep. 802 plus Post-game

We were recently interviewed on The Tom Woods Show.

This episode includes the discussion with Tom, plus a “post-game” discussion to further clarify some of the points raised during the interview.

Pre-Game

Tom Woods is the…

• Nicest Guy In the Liberty Movement (except on Twitter)
• James Brown of the Liberty Movement
• Oprah of the Liberty Movement

Preparations for the interview

Interview – The Tom Woods Show, Episode 802 (00:04:55)

• Tom Introduces Tim and Joe
• Joe, the “Multi-disciplinary Engineer”
• Ideological slants of Architects and Engineers
• Logistics of producing “The World’s Most Antipodal Podcast (TM)”
• What is the Built Environment?
• Who will build the roads?
• Built Environment issues are not politicized left vs. right
• Libertarians and “Normal People”
• “Undesirable Material” – Anarcho-Sewage Treatment
• The format of every NPR story
• Is Tennis more libertarian than football?
• Planning isn’t a bad thing
• Jane Jacobs
• Human Scale
• “Eyes on the Street”
• Planned and Unplanned cities
• Failures of Planning – Boston City Hall Plaza
• The roads, revisited
• Are libertarian solutions too clunky?
• Technical solutions and commercial solutions
• Pop Quiz: Which country is an anarcho-capitalist utopia with private roads?
• Privatization and divestiture – How do we get there from here?
• Anarchitecture Podcast website details
• @anarchitecturep on Twitter – Real world examples (we use #ThisIsAnarchitecture)
• “The Tom Woods House” – A great result using DonorSee

Post-Game (00:41:37)

• Initial reactions
  • Our first interview – thinking on our toes
  • How we usually record – Editing Ums and Ahs
• Technical Challenges
  • Tim’s Recording Rig
  • Joe’s Pop Filter
  • “Have I started an electrical fire?”
  • Tom’s cat – even the pro’s have glitches
• Highlights
  • Unscripted moments of inspiration
  • Tom’s takeaways from #ana003
• Who was Hayek?
  • Developed Austrian Business Cycle Theory with Ludwig von Mises
  • Won the “Swedish Central Bank’s Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” AKA Nobel Prize in Economics
  • Focused on the role of decentralized information in a complex society
• Who was Jane Jacobs?
  • “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”
  • Feud with Robert Moses – Grassroots opposition to eminent domain
  • No formal education, an autodidact
  • Journalist for Architectural Record magazine
  • “Where are all the people?”
  • “Eyes on the Street” – taking ownership of your neighborhood
  • Le Corbusier’s “Vertical City” – Unite de habitacion
  • A good idea, dumbed down
  • Public housing projects and criminality
  • A spectacular failure – Pruitt-Igoe
  • A decentralized surveillance state
  • Distributed surveillance, judgement and action
• “Were there any parts where you put your foot in your mouth?”
  • Dodging the question
  • UN AGENDA 21!!! – Too harsh?
  • Applying Austrian insights about information and monopoly theory to city planning
  • Channeling Alex Jones
• Conclusion
  • Update on the final episode of the Citizen of Nowhere series
  • Tim’s blog post on Patrik Schumacher

Links/Resources

• The Tom Woods Show Episode 802 on Tom’s site
• Article mentioned in the interview: Architects are left-leaning
• Architects’ Utopian Visions
  • Modernist Dreams of Utopian Architecture
  • Utopian Architecture Part 2: Beyond Modernism
• Jane Jacobs
  • on Wikipedia
  • on Mises.org
  • on Strong Towns
  • Jacobs and Hayek – Strong Towns podcast with Nolan Gray of Market Urbanism
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities on Amazon
• Boston City Hall Plaza Apologia
• Walter Block on Road Privitization
  • The Privatization of Roads and Highways (free e-book on Mises.org) – Note, Joe got the name wrong in the discussion
  • Privatizing Roads Lecture on Youtube
• Sweden’s Private Road Associations (PRA’s)
  • on Wikipedia
  • on National Academy of Sciences
  • A counterpoint – Are Private Road Associations really private?
• The Tom Woods House
  • The Tom Woods Show Ep. 751 with Gret Glyer of DonorSee
• Public Space
  • Frank van Dun on Public Space and Rights of Way in an anarcho-capitalist society
  • Rebuttal by Walter Block
• Frederich A. Hayek
  • “Nobel Prize” Acceptance Speech: The Pretense of Knowledge
  • Essay: The Use of Knowledge in Society
  • Jeff Tucker applies Hayek’s insights to a city
• Pass Le Corbusier
  • Wrote a book called Toward an Architecture. Get it? Toward Anarchitecture! What a visionary!
  • Unité d’habitation concept – Cité radieuse (Radiant City) in Marseille
  • Dumbed down, then demolished: Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis
• The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur by Peter Klein (free e-book on Mises.org)

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