How a Public Housing Project Became an Unplanned Neighborhood
A favela in southern Brazil shows the upside of an "invasive" urban form—and offers lessons for U.S. housing policy.
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.
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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.
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