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Part two of the Taming Traffic webinar series will focus on the critical role that parking management plays in urban traffic reduction. Parking management ha...

By Chrissy Mancini Nichols Mar 18, 2014 This post first appeared at metroplanning.org Executive summary While I was with the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) I analyzed the 2013 Chicago parking meter concession renegotiation and found that the settlement will save the City of Chicago and

Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities and bike riding continues to grow. Yet urban streets are still designed and used like highways. Change is happening, but at a very slow pace, says urban expert Jeff Speck.

Parking policies hide the cost of car travel by making it more difficult to build vibrant urban places. Until they are abolished, Dallas will never regrow its core.

The challenge for employers is to maximize savings for staff while keeping the benefit of having people come into work.

When cities are covered in pavement, they more easily flood because stormwater can’t get into the ground. This alternative has tiny little holes to let rainwater through, while keeping pollution out.

Here are the three options we think can start to be built today - and five things we learned from this math.

Most real estate developers paid fees to satisfy Seattle's affordable housing requirements last year. The city collected $68 million from the 224 projects subject to the city's Mandatory Housing Affordability program.

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COVID-19 is helping parklets mushroom in Helsinki and other Finnish cities, ushering a quiet revolution in street space distribution.

The post-pandemic return to the road is creating new business opportunities.

The city could repurpose its huge fleet into a car-share one, starting with the NYPD’s huge cache of vehicles.

Here’s how we can become a place for people instead of cars.

There was an inherent unfairness about the rules, according to city staff. So they’re changed.

The days of driving a few blocks for cheaper fuel could rapidly be coming to an end. That might leave some areas without places for EVs to charge up.

Why the well-being of cities depends on a people-first approach

Why do American cities waste so much space on cars?

The community boards are poised to take a bite out of Mayor de Blasio’s COVID streeteries.

Subsidizing employer-paid parking clogs streets, boosts emissions and isn’t fair to commuters who can’t use this perk. But there’s an easy way to fix it.

COMING FROM NEWTON  I should have known that Greater Boston has hundreds of wonderful little downtowns and village centers, the hearts of walkable neighborhoods. Newton itself has 13 villages. I grew up walking to downtown Newtonville for blue slush puppies and books at the branch library, now a senior center. In my 30s, I lived(...)

Written by University of Illinois at Chicago students Maggie Kochman, Zane Jacobson, and Bobby Siemiaszko. From January through May 2021, three students at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s…

Residential streets are becoming clogged with parked cars because larger modern vehicles no longer fit in garages, according to the RAC Foundation study.

The Pleasantville Village Board has enlisted BFJ Planning to explore downtown parking regulations and ways to improve it as the village experiences a sharp drop in parking permit & meter revenue.

West New York’s Parking Deck Project will begin this month, the Parking Services Department announced. Phase I will entail the redevelopment of the 51st Street Lot, creating over 300 new spaces. The 51st Street Parking Lot closed on June 27 and will remain closed for about a year. The town said it “wholeheartedly understands that […]

Advocates say less parking can lead to more housing, safer streets, and help combat climate change

Parking has long been one of the key barriers to affordable housing efforts. Not anymore.

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