Parking

While city and state officials celebrate the garage as a win for the city, urban planning...

After years of debate and more than five years after an initial deal fell through,...

To fight climate change, cities need to be designed with much more walking, biking, and public transit use in mind.

Houses of worship own billions worth of empty, deteriorating or underused real estate. Some local governments and denominations are moving to carve it into badly needed housing, but there are plenty of obstacles.

By John Bela, ASLA On a clear fall day in 2005, a group of friends and collaborators from the art collective Rebar commandeered an 8-foot-wide by 20-foot-long metered parking space in downtown San …

Residents of Culdesac Tempe, a no-cars-allowed development in Arizona, will receive a bundle of discounted mobility services when the first units open in 2022.

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While it’s possible to cope with the horrible parking deal through design and policy, we really need to abolish it altogether.

Controversial proposals for Tübingen are an attempt to deter car use in the city, with larger vehicles paying the most

President Biden says he’s taking action to cool deadly urban heat islands, but it’s not enough because … cars.

A new study found several design tweaks that made suburban residents more likely to accept denser development — to a point.

Autonomous vehicles could unleash a second wave of suburban sprawl that makes cities inhospitable to people outside cars in new ways — unless governments adopt policies to soften their impact now, …

(2021). Political Partisanship and Transportation Reform. Journal of the American Planning Association. Ahead of Print.

San Francisco’s airport received a “Gold” certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program developed by the U.S. Green Building Council late last week for e…

The Pittsburgh Planning Commission approved a measure to reduce the number of parking spaces required for restaurants.

By early 2020, San Francisco had created 70 parklets in every corner of the city, and the city’s parklet program had become a model around the world.

A single open-air car park takes up land that could potentially house hundreds of people.

PRN board member Mike Kwan reflects on his Parking Day, what he learned about his community and what is sacrificed for cars

Culdesac’s marketing department wrote in an email that their refusal to build parking helped shave possibly $60/month off rents

City Council is considering making the Covid-outdoor dining scene permanent in Philly. That’s great news for local businesses.

After a few years of radio silence, autonomous vehicles are in the news again. Here is a review of how we thought they might change the world.

Vancouver city councillors say they’re seeing unusually strong and negative public reaction to the proposal to require parking permits for residential parking on any street in the city

Tradable parking permit schemes can be an effective transportation demand management strategy for cities where cars are viewed as a status symbol and …

A map of the United States by census tract suggests that–except in a few remote and nearly roadless parts of Alaska–few households are carfree: In fact, a closer look reveals a differen…

From 5mph streets to 15-minute neighbourhoods, how are different cities giving cars the boot?

The pandemic forced cities to rewrite the rules of the road and engage residents in the process.

A new report looks at how violations like blocking traffic, loading zones or pedestrian ramps can put a dent in drivers' wallets.

Vancouver city council failed to pass a new Climate Emergency Parking Program designed to raise revenue to fight climate change, with 6 votes against the plan and 5 in support of it.