Even the fastest-growing cities have them: under-utilized lots in the center of town whose owners don’t want to develop, but also don’t want to sell. Often, the property tax code rewards this kind of land speculation.
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The New York Times has released an interactive map of (nearly) every building in America. What can we learn from it about America’s suburban experiment, through the marks it has left on the landscape?
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Will this new development make traffic worse? The conventional wisdom about the relationship between development and traffic contains a number of important misconceptions.
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Now, the story of a wealthy family who sold their farm and the developer who exploited an agricultural tax subsidy to keep it all together.
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Why does Charleston’s quaint downtown have such astronomically high property values?
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A hierarchical zoning model would allow greater development flexibility and remove needless rules from our zoning codes. Here's how to do it.
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If zoning codes are the primary tool in a planner's toolbox, that's a problem. Here's a three part system that would offer a better way for planners to design cities.
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We pay lots of money for property to live on, but we pay nothing to store our vehicles on public roads.
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A small town in Minnesota just gave an extended middle finger to one of the state’s most impotent bureaucracies.
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The width of our streets can influence land use, safety, character, scale, and overall financial productivity. We shouldn't be fearful of building narrow when it makes sense.
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Joe Minicozzi, principal of the econometric consulting firm Urban3, challenges assumptions about land use and development. With tools like basic arithmetic, maps, and 3D visualization using ArcScene and CityEngine, he makes the case against suburban sprawl and reaffirms the value of mixed-use urban development.
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