Surrey council’s designs for mini-parks aim to demonstrate the benefits of less car-focused public spaces

Dozens of drivers competed on Saturday to see who could parallel park the best, in an impromptu competition announced only a couple days prior.

In the first comprehensive review of Colorado land use laws, the National Zoning Atlas found that you can build single-family homes almost anywhere. But apartments, condos and townhomes are widely prohibited.

Every so often when reading an obituary of someone, or an awards citation, you realise that you have internalised their work into your thinking without having read it directly. So it was with Donald Shoup, the California transport academic who spent his life working on the problem of urban parking, and who died in February.

A chorus of critics insist that building on undeveloped land is the only way out of the US housing crisis. But the environmental costs of unrestrained growth are overwhelming.

New York City is doing what many cyclists across North America have been dreaming of for years: tackling the bike parking problem head-on.

Successfully managing curb space with IoT-enabled loading zones hinges on enforcement, communication and coordination with all stakeholders.

A state bill to eliminate parking minimums is gaining broad support.

A propoal heading to Denver City Council would help lower rents and home prices in an era of high building material costs and exorbitant interest rates.

Premier says structure will make money and be ‘blended in’ to waterfront

CT HB 5002 pushes back against an ingrained automobile culture that threatens future prosperity.

A state bill to eliminate parking minimums is gaining broad support.

In the latest entry in our car harms series, an economist shows why car dependency is actually bad for business.

# Safe Eastside, a group with a long track record of attacking facilities for people exiting homelessness, is turning its attention to major pieces of state housing reform approved in 2025. They have until July 26 to collect more than 150,000 signatures to get a repeal referendum on the ballot in Washington state.

AI cameras on Santa Monica buses will start ticketing bus lane violations July 1, expanding LA’s push for smarter, more efficient transit enforcement.

It is by now self-evident that Connecticut needs to allow more housing to be built. While the new housing bill (HB 5002) aims to address this important goal, it ultimately […]

In Duncanville, Texas, developer Monte Anderson saw potential in the Wheatland Plaza strip mall and is now transforming it into 16 affordable townhomes.

The Cambridge City Council voted to continue with its plan to install separated bike lanes along Broadway Street despite traffic concerns on Monday, rejecting a proposed policy order that would temporarily suspend the project.

Developers will be able to pitch their ideas for housing on a city-owned parking lot in Old East Village this summer after politicians were urged to slow the process down and do more consultation.

A new bill before the Baltimore City Council would eliminate the requirement to provide a minimum amount of off-street parking for new development.

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Southside neighborhood’s form-based zoning that went before a special work session of Common Council last week emerged substantially different from what had been released prior to […]

AI powered cameras scan no parking zones and automatically send improperly parked cars tickets in the mail

Walkable cities aren't just safer. They're friendlier and more human.

Council voted to implement option 2, which adds towing services to the current enforcement model, with funding of $100,000 for 2025.

HALTOM CITY, TX, June 10, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A growing number of Texas cities are embracing the concept of parking reform. Time and again, research shows that decades-old parking...

The CT housing market is failing everyone -- those trying to buy a home and those trying to size up or downsize.

In this interview, Hilko Janssen discusses how Car Park Capital turns parking-lot dystopia into strangely compelling gameplay.

# On Wednesday, Bremerton ditched parking mandates, letting builders choose housing over excessive parking. Following in the footsteps of cities like Spokane, Port Townsend, and Bellingham, the move sets Bremerton up to prioritize housing needs and improving multimodal travel options.

Transit is eternal. It enrages people unreasonably. But when it comes to the new RapidTO rule on Bathurst Street, they’re not arguing about transit as such, more about the time