Approximately 2 billion parking spots cover this country, enough to pave over the entire state of Connecticut. Cities are cracking down.

While the auto industry is undergoing an electric vehicle (EV) revolution, one of the industry's offspring is experiencing a quieter but notable sea change as well.

Why Communities Are Eliminating Off-Street Parking Requirements—and What Comes Next.

Parking garages and other forms of mandated vehicle storage capacity are generally...not good. So, in the spirit of the season (of tax-deductible giving), pl...

We give our cars a lot of room. There's a growing effort to reclaim it.

Cities are loosening rules on building parking spots with new buildings: ‘It’s about the climate, it’s about walkability’

When Steve Jobs pitched Apple’s new California campus - which opened earlier this year - he wanted to turn parking lots into green landscapes. But the city of Cupertino demanded 11,000 parking spots, which put

Too much of the space in our downtowns is taken up by parked cars, and requiring developers to provide so many parking slots inflates the cost of housing. It’s becoming clear that those mandates are irrational.

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

Donald Shoup, the author of the seminal planning book "The High Cost of Free Parking," explains how parking requirements have poisoned cities and why poor planning is to blame.

Parking requirements attack the nature of the city itself, subordinating density to the needs of the car.

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The real parking problem is that there's too much of it and people expect it to be cheap and widely available. This has fundamentally changed cities.

Waste of money. Waste of space.

How obscure parking rules have misshaped our communities and opportunities for better options. [long] Garages and driveways are the primary entrance to this Tigard, OR apartment complex. Photo credit Brett VA. Parking rules buried in city land-use codes have surprisingly pernicious effects. Requirements that builders provide ample quotas of off-street parking spaces worsen traffic, multiply collisions, push up housing prices, dampen business profitability, amplify sprawl, and pollute both air and water. Parking rules are a surprisingly potent hidden force shaping—or misshaping—our communiti...

Last week, San Francisco and Minneapolis struck down bans on car-free housing. What that could mean for cities in Washington and Oregon.

Parking minimums are under siege and it's a very good thing. Most buildings in most cities and towns across the globe are required by la...