Tag: smart growth
Is Portland’s smart growth smarter than Los Angeles’?
A recent study contrasts Portland, long admired as an example of a smart growth city, and Los Angeles, often considered the American epitome of urban sprawl. Authors Hongwei Dong of California State University and Pengyu Zhu of Boise State University define smart growth as “a reaction to urban sprawl” that promotes “compact urban form, orderly […]
California cities meet smart growth goals by reducing parking requirements
More than a quarter of California’s 540 cities and counties are using parking reductions to facilitate mixed-use projects. The urban planning tool can take different forms—prohibiting developers of new multifamily residences or other building types from constructing new, off-street parking lots, for example, or requiring them to locate new, off-street, surface parking lots to the […]
