Parking

No matter how many solar panels it has, your parking garage isn’t green, and especially if you don’t charge parking.

The approximately 6,000 residents of the West End have only one choice inside their neighborhood if they want to eat at a dine-in restaurant. The neighborhood hopes to change that, in part, by removing parking requirements in its sparsely occupied business di

Rules that mandate excess parking in new development projects have added to the overlapping crises of housing affordability, urban sprawl and climate change, advocates say. California could soon bar cities from imposing them.

A video of construction shows the public spaces taking shape at the innovative Culdesac Tempe, in Arizona. Designer: “Car-free is the future of New Urbanism.”

SF City Hall was supposed to look into tearing down the remainder of the Central Freeway and replacing it with housing—but never did. Now a grassroots campaign is reviving the idea.

Active commuting has an obvious component of physical health, but is also simply something students can look forward to every day.

From GM’s Motorama show in the 1950s to Hyundai’s more recent Smart City model, automakers have long meddled in urban planning.

Until the early 1970s, Japan endured a high rate of road fatalities. Now the nation boasts one of the world’s best traffic safety records. Here's why.

A broad survey, possible solutions displayed on screens, inspirational walks, tables of future and a Citizen’s Assembly – this is how the Belgian city of Leuven has co-created a new mobility plan for its Kessel-Lo borough, putting citizens at the heart of the transformation. The plan gives priority to pedestrians, reduces car traffic and encourages […]

Barcelona’s public transport operator recently released some statistics regarding its positive impact on the city’s environment. The study asked the question – what life would be like in the Catalan c..

Listen to the latest episode as CalMatters' Manuela Tobias and the L.A. Times' Liam Dillon talk with guest Peter Calthorpe about AB 2011.

Europe is engaged in an ongoing transportation revolution that aims to simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution and noise pollution, while increasing livability in urban areas, including the implementation of designs for “15-minute cities,” where daily necessities are located mere steps away from homes.

Governor Newsom should sign A.B. 2097

The EU is set to miss its 2030 target to reduce transport-related noise pollution by miles.

If urban highways enforce racial barriers between neighborhoods, why do officials keep spending so much to expand them?

The MTA has done a terrible job selling congestion pricing to the public

The data is clear that congestion charges are the most effective way of cutting traffic in the cities where they have been used.

Startups are scrambling to disrupt the post-pandemic parking sector, arguing that real-time data will mean less traffic and more revenue for cities.

Fossil Fuels are not just warming the climate—they are endangering us.

Metro Council wants to reduce the requirement for parking to help recruit more affordable housing.

Don­ald Shoup, an urban plan­ning pro­fessor at the Uni­versity of Cali­for­nia Los Angeles, pub­lished a brick of a book in 2005 called The High Cost of Free Park­ing. Work of such dens­ity is not usu­ally widely read; Prof. Shoup’s book, however,...

A state bill awaiting Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature would prohibit parking mandates in neighborhoods within half a mile of transit.

The decision of the world’s fifth-largest city to shift road space from cars to other uses has produced increasingly vibrant urban neighborhoods.

Despite its environmental achievements, the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act substitutes electric vehicles for a more holistic, climate-friendly approach to urban planning and design.

“Like the Dutch have reclaimed land from the sea, we can reclaim land from parking”

Richmond’s City Council just selected a development team for a $2.4 billion reimagining of the Diamond District, which could yield more housing, transit-oriented development, and park space.

Lawmakers Aim To Create More Opportunities To Build Affordable Housing in Cities

Developers are no longer required to include parking with many new housing projects.

By decoupling parking from new residential construction, its new law could reduce housing costs, too.