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.

In this multi-part series, we join an analysis of a novel database of municipal zoning reform efforts across the United States with an argument for the necessity of a tenant-inflected zoning reform, as a method and approach to ground future zo

Residents are invited to provide feedback via an online survey and public engagement session.

Converting malls could create hundreds of thousands of badly needed homes.

To address its acute housing shortage, the city is allowing greater housing density, relaxing parking requirements and creating affordable housing incentives and mandates in updates to decades-old community plans.

As Boise citizens weigh in on a once-in-a-generation rewrite of the city’s zoning code, there are a select few issues that make the shortlist of concerns: density, movability, and parking. This is why the New York Times bestseller, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, is such a must-read.

The legislation would give property owners "sole discretion" in deciding how many parking spaces they want to build.

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Parking minimums and other zoning laws have made American cities untenable for any other type of transportation. It’s time we find a new way to zone our cities.

Brainerd Planning Commission takes up conversation

The city's next leaders need to focus on this issue.

History of zoning in the United States and how it has impacted cities

Congress passes a new $85 million grant program aimed at zoning reform. The funding represents a new and significant incentive and support for local zoning reform and planning for housing affordability.

One of the barriers to providing affordable housing is restrictive zoning codes that often favor single-family homes.

An overview of the benefits of good parking management practices and a collection of resources for communities looking to meet many goals by improving parking management. Curated by Oregon’s Transportation and Growth Management program.

The Planning Report is the insider's guide to urban planning and infrastructure in Southern California

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.

Conversation about land use and building in cities often turns to questions of aesthetics or personal preferences. You find impassioned advocates of various kinds of architecture or lifestyle.

In our second event in our series "Zoning in Charlottesville," UVA Planning Professor Dr. Andrew Mondschein presented on "The High Cost of Mandatory Parking...

Zoning reform policies that boost economic development, promote housing, and bust the myth that reducing parking spaces hurts businesses.

So why do transportation leaders spend so much time drafting “pedestrian master plans” and “bike master plans” without accompanying “car master plans” aimed at b…

The city failed to perform a state-required environmental analysis of its Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan, three environmentalists groups had argued in a lawsuit that.

An excerpt from the latest book on zoning argues for four approaches to reform that can immediately improve land use regulation in the United States.

Advocates for land-use restrictions to ameliorate urban heat overlook government’s poor record on the matter.

Lessons from Sandpoint, Idaho, the small town that embraced zoning reform to boost economic development and housing production.