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AB 2097 will reduce the cost of housing while slashing the pollution that causes climate change.

We’re asking our streets and sidewalks to do more and more. Start-ups are trying to help with curbside management tools — but will cities rise to the challenge?

D.C. region officials have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles despite pursuing projects that could hinder reductions.

A surge in vehicle crashes is disproportionately harming lower-income families and Black Americans.

If New York City adopts congestion pricing, it would be the first US city to put a tax on traffic of sorts.

It’s not a right, but we often treat it like one.

France wants 9 percent of its citizens to shift to biking.

A ‘fietsvlonder,’ or bicycle platform, lets a neighborhood trial the change from car parking to bike parking to get used to the switch—and see if there’s a demand—before it’s made permanent.

The meat grinder of the Appropriations process spits out a few wins

There are thousands of empty parking spots in cities. So what can we do to make better use of this space?

The expansion of highways will do far more harm than the expansion of mass transit will avert.

Ann Arbor, Michigan approved changes to the city’s Unified Development Code (UDC) earlier this week that eliminate off-street parking requirements for a variety of development types throughout the city.

A spike in car ownership, dining sheds and the comeback of alternate-side parking are making it tougher than ever to find spaces.

Time to park this fear in the dustbin of history.

Our gas-guzzling rides are tanking our personal finances and municipal budgets as well as dooming the planet.

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.

Last week, the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) released a new draft proposal for its Electric Vehicle Ready Code project, which would amend city zoning code to require electric vehicle charging at new multi-unit dwellings. But advocates for electric bikes – who frequently lament being left out of efforts to expand electric vehicle ... Read more

Charlotte City Council is slated to vote on a nearly 700-page rewrite of the rules that guide development in our fast-growing city, but most of the attention has focused on one controversial aspect: allowing duplexes and triplexes by-right in single-family areas. Yes, but: If approved, the document, known as the Unified Development Ordinance, would regulate […]

As part of a wider plan to slash traffic, the city center is pushing out the car to ‘make space for people.’

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The California Dream isn’t quite dead yet.

Counterintuitive though it may feel, sometimes to build a better city, we need to prune things back, rather than adding more.

In most California cities, whenever developers construct a new building, local governments force them to provide a certain amount of parking as well. These rules – minimum parking requirement…

When costs aren’t covered by those who use parking garages, the city foots the bill. Madison’s transportation department is exploring a more sustainable system.

There are many excellent, best practice, sustainable transport cities in Europe. A shining example is Gothenburg, Sweden, and what it tells us about what can be

It has long been known that automobility marginalizes other types of mobility inside cities. This is extremely visible in Bucharest, a city with a hig…

Opinion: As autonomous vehicles continue to appear on roads around the world, planners and engineers must be proactive in devising new and creative uses for soon-to-be-obsolete urban parking.

Blocked from sleeping in vehicles within municipal boundaries, workers in profit-minded Colorado mountain towns now must seek “safe outdoor space” – in Walmart lots, surrounding woods or new design…