Key Brooklyn community board chairs signaled on Tuesday night a resounding "no" for a key part of Mayor Adams's signature "City of Yes" zoning proposal.

This week, I’d like to show you how using data can help us make smart, informed decisions when it comes to urban planning and the future of our city.

Car-sharing gives people the perks of a private vehicle without the hassles of owning one, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Here's how urbanists can use this car-rental model to strengthen their communities.

One way to cool down San Antonio is to turn underused parking lots into parks. Consider Charis Park in Terrell Hills.

The Strong Towns movement is steadily progressing to the next phase of its mission. A substantial number of people are convinced of the principles behind the movement, and they want to roll up their sleeves and get to work. Here’s how to make the leap from building awareness to actually changing the

Once a shrine to the world's most popular soft drink, the building that housed the original World of Coca-Cola is going flat at the hands of Georgia's state government. Crews continued Friday to demolish the onetime temple of fizz in downtown Atlanta near the state capitol, with plans to convert the site to a parking lot. Visitors since 2007 have taken their pause that refreshes across downtown at a newer, larger Coca-Cola Co. museum in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park.

The six-story garage will be the first thing you see at McGhee Tyson, so the airport is investing to make it attractive.

There is now a parking attendant in Old Town Eureka from Commercial To H streets enforcing two and four hour parking zones as well as Red zones and Alleyways.  “I’m not a cop, you know, I’m city area code enforcement. So we do like enforcement activities, but we’re not police. You know, it’s not the […]

Honolulu is learning that people have a hard time parting with their cars. Developers know it and are paying millions to provide parking.

In a new report, the Utah Foundation outlines strategies for solving the state's affordable housing crisis and boosting homeownership.

Enthusiasm for the "smart curbs" plan was a bit muted, though there is a little for everyone in it.

The City of Ottawa is hitting the brakes on the idea of imposing parking ticket fines based on the driver's income or the value of the vehicle, saying the city doesn't have the power under existing legislation.

Larger Arizona cities won’t be able to limit backyard casitas to just one per home and will have to allow much more dense housing near city centers after Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs signed two major housing bills on Tuesday.

Edmonton Journal readers speak out on Edmonton's parking payment app and property tax

New Zealand tends to focus on big infrastructural projects such as tunnels or light rail to change cities. But there are cheaper ways to add public spaces to urban design.

Free parking is often touted as a way to get people into downtowns. But many Memorial Day drivers in D.C. were oblivious to it in the first place.

If transportation departments and urban planning staff do not include the voices of nondrivers, they are unlikely to develop policies and infrastructure that will reflect the needs of their whole communities.

Councillors eye more pedestrianized downtown in the future

Parking brings in $3 billion a year for state and local governments. That's why they are using new technologies to help push parking reforms aimed at streamlining enforcement and increasing revenues and environmental friendliness.

They did it! In the final days of the 2024 legislative session, statewide parking reform snuck across the finish line in Colorado. HB 1304, which eliminates many residential parking mandates in the…

The docks of Antwerp and Zeebrugge are inundated with a high quantity of electric vehicles, mostly from China

San Francisco has a subculture of parking vigilantes. Frustrated with widespread illegal parking, most of all blocking sidewalks, these residents have taken it upon themselves to report vehicles to the city, often resulting in a parking ticket.

Part of the solution is to raise the price to park on the street to possibly push more people to parking garages and paid lots.

City engineers rely on faulty logic and misrepresentations to maintain the status quo. This was made blatantly clear in a recent letter from the City Engineers Association of Minnesota (CEAM) — and it’s why a growing number of engineers are breaking from the party line to support reform. Here are CE

The Minneapolis 2040 Plan, which sought to end single-family zoning citywide and improve housing affordability, could move forward without the threat of continued environmental lawsuits.  A couple paragraphs tucked into a 1400-page bill passed in the waning hours of the 2024 legislative session exempts comprehensive plans — which are guiding documents for cities’ zoning and […]

Do you know what it's like to have your housing be dependent on a country club membership that you can't afford? Renters across the United States do, as they're forced to pay for amenities like private parking spaces or pool access — even if they never use them.

Plus: Austin shrinks it's minimum lot sizes, Florida builds on past zoning reforms, and Arizona passes ADU and missing middle bills.

The interactive tool helps citizens and policymakers understand parking reform at a broader level and zero in on state-level legislation.

Other local governments and regions can learn from a range of strategies such as zoning changes, encouraging EVs and making freight systems more efficient.