The city of Edmonton, AB, has passed substantial zoning reforms that officials and housing advocates hope will generate more infill construction and help the fast-growing city add housing to keep pace.
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Urban planning involves a lot of jargon that can be obscure or confusing. Here’s one term you might not have heard, but that can make a big difference in the design of your city.
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Scott Jones is the co-founder and executive director of We Love Long Beach, a nonprofit that encourages and equips residents to build connections with their neighbors through acts of generosity and hospitality.
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The latest Highway Boondoggles Report is out, showcasing just how much money is being wasted on highway expansion projects across the U.S.
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Here’s a local program that began with seeing a struggle in the community—and made a humble, but impactful, attempt to respond to it.
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For successful placemaking, small, consistent investments over time matter more than grand gestures.
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After one meeting and a little over $3,000, Medicine Hat, AB, decided to take a bottom-up approach to invest in a community-led program that has made better use of their public parks and children’s playgrounds.
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A recent public health study out of Johns Hopkins has found that narrow lanes reduce crashes on streets, and recommends that lanes as narrow as 9 feet wide be the default.
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A launch party was held in Kingston, NY, for the Plus One Home Program, an initiative that hopes to accelerate the creation of accessory dwelling units.
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Our cities are often chasing too many goals and rarely succeeding at all of them. Building safe, beautiful cities requires recovering singularity of focus.
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Restrictive zoning can make it so that smaller residential developments face the same prohibitively expensive restrictions as larger commercial units. But the state of North Carolina has passed a new bill to address this issue.
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Cities in Massachusetts are among the most walkable in the U.S., so why is progress for safer streets there so maddeningly slow?
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Los Angeles is often held up as the case study for car-centric development run amok, but in recent years, the city has been pursuing a completely different path: public transit champion.
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The best time to influence a development proposal so that it fits well into its urban context is early, not late, in the process.
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One of the most frustrating things about transportation policy is the obvious double standard when it comes to cars versus everything else.
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Here are six tried and tested, “no-brainer” zoning reforms any city or town in North America should consider adopting.
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Rent control gets held up as a generic answer to high housing costs, but people often aren’t clear about what problem, exactly, they believe rent control is intended to solve.
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We talk with author Jake Berman about the history of rail networks in America’s cities and why our transit systems are the way that they are in the current era.
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Cities need more transaction-free third spaces.
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Landlords may no longer be “land lords” in the historical sense, but they are still charged with a great number of responsibilities at a deeply local level—so, what does it mean to be a good steward of the land?
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