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Portland's own analysis shows that bans on car-free homes are catastrophic for Portland households who seek affordable housing.

Parking requirements are the dark matter of the urban universe: they affect transport and land use in mysterious ways. These fun facts illustrate the costs and impacts of economically excessive

Personal website of UCLA Professor Emeritus Donald Shoup

L.A. already has 6 million parking spaces. We need more homes for people, not cars.

Driving is ruining our lives. Only drastic action will kick our dependency, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Turning from the conflict of airport expansions to a vision of a low-carbon transport system.

The Seattle Department of Transportation announced changes to parking rates last week based on its annual study of paid spaces across the city.

SpotAngels uses crowdsourced data to help find open spots, and alerts drivers to restrictions. It's partnering with Parking Authority of Baltimore City as it expands to Baltimore.

The developments are part of the city’s Broadway Corridor redevelopment project, a plan to create a new neighborhood encompassing 34 acres in Northwest Portland between the Chinatown-Japantown historic district and the Pearl District featuring the 14-acre post office site as its anchor.

Our cities' transportation landscape is being dramatically altered. But a focus on small disputes overlooks the larger value questions that need to be addressed.

A new survey of mayors finds a big disconnect between what mayors want in terms of street design and what they’re actually willing to support to make it happen.

Rising land costs and changing consumer behaviors have conspired against “over-parking” at retail venues. One developer is bucking the trend.

DC plans to build 100 off-sidewalk corrals for dockless bikes and scooters in residential zones all across the city in the coming months.

From Amsterdam to Tempe, Arizona, more and more cities are finding that eliminating cars from their streets makes people happier and healthier.

Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu proposed a resident parking fee and it sparked a broader conversation.

The city is in the process of setting up a benefit district that will allow revenue from parking meters Downtown to stay in the area and be fed back into transit and other mobility improvements. It’s a model that has already been established in the Short North, where a committee made up of neighborhood leaders […]

BPDA planners approved 59 new development projects that include the construction of 5,080 more parking spaces in the City of Boston.

European cities offer a roadmap for life with fewer cars.

But if you think that means increasing transit ridership in American cities will be as simple as taking away everyone’s “free” residential parking to make driving less convenient,…

Around 30 percent of Austin’s downtown traffic congestion can be attributed to drivers circling in search of a parking space. In order to solve that problem, Austin Transportation Department’s Parking Enterprise division has launched an effort to address the specific…

In less than three years, the program has spurred plans for 20,000 new apartments.

Is a parking garage an “amenity” if its users have to stuff their motor vehicles into the gridlocked heart of one of Boston’s worst traffic bottlenecks?

The Connecticut capital has been using zoning and transit reforms to stage a downtown recovery. But there’s one big thing in the way: an aging interstate.

The City of Miami eliminated its parking requirement for small-scale development in 2015. Small-scale projects in Little Havana, Wynwood, Allapattah and Edgewater are rising thanks to it.

The new pricing structure increases charges for downtown trips and lowers rates for shared rides elsewhere in the city.

How will self-driving, autonomous cars change cities? We outline investigations by the MIT Senseable City Lab which seek to find out.

A satellite’s view of what’s been built, destroyed and remade across the United States

The project, One Park, will add new life to an underused parcel of land, but it does little to counter a shortage of homes for lower-income families.

The San Bruno Avenue Multimodal Improvement Project turned a scruffy neighborhood in San Francisco’s Portola district into a vision of the city’s future: wide sidewalks, “bulb-out” curbs, fewer parking spaces.