The California Coastal Commission approves regulation forcing restaurants near the shoreline with street seating to replace lost parking spots or shut down al fresco dining

The debate onrenegotiating andredistributing publicspace represents, duringthis dramatic pandemic,a great resource.We discussed this withKristian Koreman,Fabrizio Prati, Gideon Boieand Ma Yansong.

Instead of letting new spaces languish during “off hours,” let’s time share the public right-of-way throughout the day. by Josh…

New York City isn’t dead. Anyone who's enjoyed a beverage or a bite at one of the city’s hopping, vibrant Open Street eateries can tell you that. For

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, streets have become an integral part of our public health infrastructure—they’re spaces to walk, exercise, play...

It’s in the public interest for cities to convert the parking lanes of their major streets to outdoor seating, with chairs and tables. On the commercial avenue of the modern city, land use at…

The rules of restaurant spaces are up for grabs as the city’s Department of Transportation looks to the future of street and sidewalk seating.

CLEARWATER — There’s a glimmer of nightlife in downtown Clearwater. Sandwiched between North Osceola Avenue and North Garden Avenue along the 400 and 500 blocks of Cleveland Street, patrons gather on a recent weekend for Sip and Stroll, an outdoor food and drink event that has been happening the third Saturday of every month since October 2020. It started as a way for Clearwater restaurants to ...

During the pandemic, Boston converted parking spots into more pedestrian-friendly spaces. Here's why readers want to keep it that way.

The pandemic we just lived through caused deep changes not only in the health and economic sectors, but also in transportation. As local enterprises had to reinvent ways they do business, mobility dynamics changed as

The restaurants who needed them to survive? The humans who endured the pandemic city? Or their old owners, cars?

The 15-Minute City states that all people should have access to all the goods and services they would need within 15 minutes of their home

The outdoor dining set-ups many restaurants created due to COVID-19 restrictions took over 8,500 parking spots away from the city.

The city's expansion of outdoor dining into the street helped restaurants lower indoor capacity, keep people safe and not lose customers through the pandemic.

The city found a way to ensure those tables placed in street parking spots can remain, even as it ends the COVID-19 state of emergency.

It’s a ‘step in the right direction’, some merchants say

Yelp data shows greater consumer interest at restaurants on pedestrian-friendly “slow streets" that limited vehicle traffic during the pandemic.

Whose compromise? Our compromise!

As a popular dining destination faces city orders to rebuild a costly outdoor dining setup, advocates call for a clearer plan for opening up streets.

City council approved an ordinance to allow restaurants to use parking meters as outdoor dining spaces.

Communities shouldn’t give back the street space that they reclaimed during the pandemic.

R Rawlings, Vestre Ltd, discusses how COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst for transforming urban spaces, and why introducing parklets could be the way forward

While glimmers of hope about an impending vaccine glimmer in the future, the coronavirus still rages on. The toll the pandemic has taken on people’s lives and health will be difficult to measure for a long time coming, but there is no question that our livelihoods and norms have changed. One hopeful outcome has been...

After a long delay to start the program, the City of Seattle announced an even longer extension for restaurants and businesses to continue using public spaces for outdoor dining and retail. Seattle…

The mayor had been under pressure from such civic groups as City Rise, which has been calling for repurposing roadways for retail.

Schemes to reclaim city streets for pedestrians are flourishing during the Covid-19 pandemic

“We’re looking at that [year-round],” Hizzoner said at his Monday presser.

“This could be the best block party in the history of New York, but if we don’t get this right in the next three months, there will be a complete collapse of the tax base of the city,&#…