Land Use
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City of No: Council Member Gets More Parking, Less Housing
Council Member Inna Vernikov pressures developer to build more parking than housing in Sheepshead Bay rezoning.
April 10, 2025
Our Overbuilt Road Network Costs Americans Trillions in Lost Housing Opportunities
America has poured enough asphalt to build its sprawling auto-centric road network to cover the entire nation of the Netherlands.
August 26, 2024
Manhattan Judge Tosses ‘Green Amendment’ Lawsuit Against Two Bridges Mega-Development
Sorry, NIMBYs, but dense development is just life in the city.
May 11, 2023
Talking Headways Podcast: Tapping the Public Wealth of Cities
How cities can use their real-estate assets in order to generate funds for needed services.
October 16, 2022
THE BRAKE: Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Zoning
What if any American could tell at a glance how her unique local land use policies influence the way she and her neighbors get around, without having to dig through a mountain of arcane jargon to get there?
May 10, 2022
Why Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Abortion Access
Auto-centrism already poses a barrier to health care — and the likely rollback of the once-protected procedure could make that hurdle insurmountable for many.
May 3, 2022
OPINION: Progressives Should Look To Outlaw Parking Minimums
AOC is insisting that her endorsees commit to ending single-family zoning. She should require them to discourage car use, too.
January 19, 2022
Yes, Even Walmart Wants to Build Smaller Parking Lots
At the peak of its parking investment, Walmart was building six parking spaces per thousand square feet of store. But that's changed.
January 3, 2022
‘An Epic Mistake’: Donald Shoup Reflects on America’s Parking Failure — And His Hopes For the Future
"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."
November 22, 2021
Study: Suburban Living is the Worst for Carbon Emissions
Does a city dweller who eats at trendy restaurants every night generate more carbon emissions than a suburbanite with a backyard garden? The answer might surprise you.
July 12, 2021
