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WEBThe High Cost Of Minimum Parking Requirements. Donald Shoup has famously argued that minimum parking requirements cause congestion, air pollution, sprawl, poor urban design, and auto-dependence, among other consequences. Now Shoup teaches the central tenet of parking reform for Planetizen Courses. View Course.
The Top Schools For Urban Planners | Planetizen Features
WEBJun 22, 2023 · Planetizen publishes the top 25 master’s programs in planning in the Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs (Guide), currently in its 7th Edition.. Topping the Top 25 for the first time is the Master of Urban and Regional Planning program at the University of California, Los Angeles, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; the ...
Top 20 Urban Planning Books (Of All Time) - Planetizen
WEBThe “Planetizen 20” features the all-time top 20 urban planning books that every planner should read. Planetizen's annual top urban planning books list features the top 10 urban published during each year. In addition to clicking through to buy the books listed below, be sure to check out the Planetizen Store for authoritative and informative books in urban planning, design, and development.
Once San Francisco's 'Grandest Boulevard,' Van Ness Almost
WEBNov 29, 2021 · San Francisco has been working on the Van Ness Improvement Project, which includes the controversial addition of bus rapid transit lanes, for a decade and a half.
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Ranking the Top 15-Minute Cities of the United States
WEBAug 19, 2021 · Natalie Bicknell shares news of a new report by moveBuddha, an online company that shares information and resources for moving, that ranks U.S. cities by their achievement of the "15-minute city" ideal that has gained traction in urbanism circles in recent years. "[Mi]d-size American cities of 250,000 to 750,000 residents dominated the rankings of the top 25 future 15-minute cities in the ...
Amazon’s Largest Warehouse Ever Under Construction in Southern ...
WEBJun 6, 2022 · The largest Amazon warehouse ever—a 4.1 million-square-foot, 97-foot-tall building planned for dairy lands in Ontario, California—is under construction, according to an article by Jeff Collins for the Orange County Register [paywall].. When complete, the new warehouse “will have more space than any other Amazon warehouse not just in America, but in the world,” reports Collins.
Map-Correcting App Shows 'The True Size Of' Places
WEBJun 2, 2016 · The True Size Of is an interactive app that seeks to improve our skewed sense of global geography by correcting the world map. The web app allows users to drag a country to another part of the map. The country's size and shape will change until it compares accurately to its new location. For a little background on why "the world's most ...
Red Cities, Blue Cities, and Crime | Planetizen Blogs
WEBMar 12, 2023 · Red cities: cities with Republican mayors. These cities include Jacksonville, Fort Worth, Fresno, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Tulsa, Colorado Springs, Miami and Bakersfield (Mesa, Aurora and Virginia Beach also have Republican mayors, but all three are really suburbs of an older city so I’m not sure it makes sense to include them).
L.A.'s New Housing Element Calls for 456,000 New Homes
WEBDec 7, 2021 · The Los Angeles City Council voted in November "to adopt an update to the general plan's housing element which aims to accommodate the construction of up nearly 500,000 new homes," reports Steven Sharp for Urbanize Los Angeles.. The Housing Element update, titled the "Plan to House L.A.," requires the city "to add approximately 57,000 new homes annually between 2021 and 2029," reports Sharp.
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