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A new ULI report shares promising insights and examples of zoning regulations from across the United States

To what extent will proposed replacement policies address current issues? Are there other policies and practices that should be looked at and can older policies be tailored to meet today’s challenges? The whole array of planning and development practices are being questioned, particularly as seen through the outcomes they’ve produced or, in the case of housing, not produced.

The consequences of our obsession with urban dystopias and utopias

A review of the major themes, debates, and events of the year in planning that was 2022 (part one of two).

An annual list of the must-read books related to urban planning and its intersecting fields.

The pandemic accelerated existing trends and created unsustainable housing demand in a wider range of towns and cities, exacerbated by outdated zoning restrictions.

The author M. Nolan Gray recently published a book that argues cities should use other mechanisms beyond zoning to manage development and encourage more housing. Could the answer to our problems be 200 miles south?

Author M. Nolan Gray and Planetizen Editorial Director James Brasuell recently discussed zoning abolition and other concepts discussed in Gray's book, "Arbitrary Lines," published recently by Island Press.

In addition to attacking zoning laws' limitations on housing, Gray argues that zoning fails to limit nuisances.

“Now more than ever, we need cities to grow,” writes Nolan Gray in a new book.