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The pavement along the edge of the street is an asset with untapped value for better managing transportation needs. This prime urban land shouldn't just be for free car storage.

On an empty lot near Phoenix, perhaps the most auto-addicted city in America, a start-up is betting $170 million on a more walkable future.

The City of Wilmington has roughly three times more parking spaces than it does greenspace, but changes could be coming to the city’s Land Development Code to prevent the trend from continuing.

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.

Vision Zero Conference panel says ‘amenities’ are coming — and drivers will pay for space.

Before she was reelected in June, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo pledged to make more space on the streets of her adopted city for pedestrians and cyclists by removing car parking spaces.

Lowering the surface temperature can provide comfort and reduced energy costs.

Transport authority's work with Conduent praised for helping low-income motorists

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

Sometime in the future, there might be a tiny neighborhood of affordable housing tucked into church parking lots across Pasadena. They could be little pallet houses, or the FEMA trailers stashed aw…

Parking is usually a hot-button issue in crowded cities. But restaurants are taking over spaces once reserved for cars, and to the surprise of owners, few are complaining.

Northwest Portland is on a roll when it comes to becoming more bike-friendly. The district has projects under construction, a major new plan for more of them headed to city Read More »

Car sharing and electric vehicles are both big ideas that could transform transportation in the Twin Cities. So why not combine them? That’s the plan for an ambitious pilot program.

If there’s anything the year of 2020 has shown us, it’s that institutional structures and government policy really do guide what the outcomes are in our society. This is perhaps nowhere more vividly true than in the matter of housing, where racial disparities and lack of affordability persist, associated with years of rules and regulations […]

Cars, parked or moving, define our High Streets, at a heavy cost in space, health and lives. Could the pandemic see our CBDs become more people friendly?

Smart Zones enable commercial drivers to use personal mobiles to find nearby loading zones and to hold, book, and pay for time in them.

"Affordability Unlocked" has generated hundreds of new affordable units.

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