Parking

In June of 2020, Edmonton became the first major Canadian city to remove minimum parking requirements. The change meant that instead of developers and businesses having to provide a specific number of parking spaces, they could decide how much to offer. (Accessible spots for people with disabilities continue to be required). Ashley Salvador, who is now a city councillor but was working as an urban planner at the time, advocated for the change and now considers it a success. "A fear that we heard

Where and how you live shapes your household’s contribution to climate change. Explore differences across the nation.

The Regional Plan Association published “Parking Policy Is Housing Policy: How Reducing Parking Requirements Stimulates Affordable Housing Production.”

City built around cars embraces shift to walkable, transit-oriented development.

Two key politicians have already signaled support for a still-faraway "Grand...

Car emissions are killing the planet. Can congestion pricing and better public transit end our love affair with automobiles?

'Smart' road user charging could replace the alphabet soup of ULEZ, LEZ, the Congestion Charge and even road tax

The San Francisco Planning Commission gets its first crack at the environmental impact...

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

When automobiles flooded urban America, builders, planners and designers faced a daunting challenge: where to put them.

An annual list of the must-read books related to urban planning and its intersecting fields.

The multilane arterials known as “stroads” remain dangerous fixtures of US cities. In an excerpt from his book Walkable City, planner Jeff Speck outlines how to tame them.

Some luxury high rises in the Big Apple have high-tech automated robotic parking spaces beneath them that cost as much as a single-family home.

But you still have a chance to raise one last glass in the award-winning space before Dec. 23.

In an effort to clear cluttered sidewalks, new city regulations will raise parking fees for drivers while allowing bicycles and scooters to claim street spaces for free.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many parklets have been deployed onto kerbside carparking spaces throughout Melbourne, Australia, by street-fronting hospitality businesses, to provide socially-dista...

The legislation would make it faster and easier to turn San Francisco’s gas stations,...

New York just got more room to celebrate the holidays this year — well, only on Sundays.

The new neighborhood growth blueprint would increase the area's population from 78,000 to 143,000 and break up car-centric superblocks.

Fifty years ago last week, Governor Francis Sargent killed the Southwest Expressway, an 8-mile extension of Interstate 95 from Canton to the South End, a decision that transformed and shaped modern Boston.

Up to 78% of walkers would take a more challenging route featuring obstacles such as balancing beams, steppingstones and high steps, research has found. The findings suggest that providing 'Active Landscape' routes in urban areas could help tackle an "inactivity pandemic" and improve health outcomes.

Only purchases from authorized in-state retailers would be eligible for rebates, and rebate recipients would need to own their e-bikes “for at least one year after receiving the rebate,” according to the bill.

Large vehicles and unsafe streets are killing too many people, including 5-year-old Allison Hart. Now, her mother is fighting for safer streets.

A new case study suggests half of Melbourne’s street parking could be converted to garages, which would free space for new green areas.

The Department of Transportation’s Every Day Counts program once emphasized auto-oriented infrastructure. Now it's doing more to take climate and safety into account.

TfL has published data from its Travel in London report, which outlines mobility trends in the UK capital over the last three-years.

Nashville is the latest city to enact a substantive change to the parking requirements set by the city’s zoning code—doing away with parking minimums and setting parking maximums in the city’s Urban Zoning Overlay.

Anchorage is the latest city to enact sweeping parking reforms, in another blow to the car-centric status quo of planning.