When a resource is underpriced, people tend to overuse it. In cities around the world, free or cheap parking leads to a familiar scene: drivers endlessly circling the block, waiting to happen upon someone leaving.
The new rules would permit landlords to raise rents by a maximum of 4 percent per year, a decrease from the 8 percent maximum allowable increase under the current rules.
These spaces are so small that most cities would ignore them. Tokyo doesn't.
Roundabouts are more efficient because they let drivers rely on themselves, not an inert piece of infrastructure.
The city where The Truman Show was filmed balances communal norms with private preferences.
When regulations limit what kind of housing can be built, the result is endless arguments about what people really want.
Inhumane labor practices, worker deaths, and the forced eviction and repression of local residents have characterized the kingdom's efforts to build a miles-long linear skyscraper in the desert.
California would benefit from building more housing and having more experimentation with how public services are delivered.
Francis Ford Coppola's clumsy passion project is an ambitious misfire.
Unions and other special interests seem to get what they want before many urban residents get basic services.
Despite increasing demand, cities across the U.S. are pushing bans on new drive-thru restaurants in the name of reducing traffic and promoting walkability.
The company needs a lot of government permission slips to build its planned new city in the Bay Area. It's now changing the order in which it asks for them.
Jakarta, Indonesia, shows why you don't need central planners to get pedestrian-friendly urban design.
Blame local government parking minimums for the overabundance of parking in the U.S.
Can Caroline, New York, resist the imposition of its first-ever zoning code?
That's more than $21,000 per foot. And the tab doesn't include operating costs, which taxpayers will also heavily subsidize.
Restricting foreign real estate ownership has something for both sides—conservatives don't like foreigners, and progressives don't like capital.
Land use policies explain the battles over everything from the Great Recession to abortion to Donald Trump.
A favela in southern Brazil shows the upside of an "invasive" urban form—and offers lessons for U.S. housing policy.
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Planners and politicians from Saudi Arabia to Scotland want to transform interconnected cities into isolated "urban villages" no one ever needs to leave.
The governor would let developers route around local zoning codes and get housing projects approved directly by state officials.
The consequences of our obsession with urban dystopias and utopias
Big cities like New York, Baltimore, and others use strict definitions of family to restrict housing.
There is telling people how to live, and there is maximizing people's ability to live the lives they want.
The idea is exactly as dumb as it sounds.
San Francisco lost a whopping 6.7 percent of its population during the COVID-19 pandemic, the second-largest percentage drop after New York.
The San Fransicko author on fighting homelessness and mental illnesses without shredding civil liberties.
Los Angeles temporarily eased parking requirements during the pandemic, offering a glimpse of how much a less restrictive zoning code improves urban life.
A new type of city-building game which will make you feel like you've been administered a digital Valium
Could allowing blocks to upzone themselves end the most intractable feud in urban development?
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The feds pushed cities to implement zoning restrictions. High prices and social inequality were the inevitable results.
Community planners don't have all the answers.
After state lawmakers boosted the gas tax with a promise to improve California streets, some cities are upsetting drivers by spending millions on so-called 'road diet' projects that reduce the number of lanes for motor vehicles.
Proposed legislation aims to crack down on "McMansions."
"There is nothing inherent" to strip clubs "that causes crime," say city planners.
Peak goat is finally achieved as goat yoga appears in a taxpayer-subsidized, goat-themed baseball stadium.
An engineer explains why that's wrong.
The death and life of a great American urbanist
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