In 2017, Buffalo, New York, revamped its zoning code to cease requiring a minimum amount of parking for commercial and residential projects.

When Buffalo, New York, changed its zoning code so that developers no longer had to provide specified amounts of parking, space was freed up for public transit and people.

The New York Times recently reported on Buffalo’s “other story,” an unexpected and dramatic increase in population in the last decade, the first time this had happened in 70 years. The “other story” in the Times headline is a reference to the Buffalo shooting, which brought weeks of negative media coverage to Buffalo earlier this year. Despite the revitalization efforts downtown and in other parts of the city, no one saw the demographic turnaround coming.

Daniel Baldwin Hess, University at Buffalo, and Jeffrey Rehler, University at Buffalo For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an

A Q&A with one of the planners behind the mid-sized NY city’s successes.

In 2017 Buffalo, New York, became the first U.S. city to stop requiring development projects to include at least a minimum amount of parking. Here’s what happened next.

On Friday morning, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown revealed a number of proposals submitted for the site.

A sweeping zoning reform gave rise to mixed-use, transit-oriented projects with far less parking than they would have had before. But…

Some day in the not-so-distant future, transit experts predict, Buffalo commuters will whiz to work in driverless cars that steer and park t

With Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles moving forward with land-use reforms, the thinking behind how American cities work could soon change.