There are mixed-use projects sprouting up all over the country, but so far at least, there is nothing quite like Crosstown Concourse in Memphis, Tenn. It is designed to be a self-contained community — “a vertical urban village” — in a single high-rise building a few blocks north of downtown. Within the 14 stories of… Read more »
Why do cities need so many parking spaces? Andrew Sullivan at The Dish reports: Michael Manville of UCLA studied a liberalization of parking regulations in one section of Los Angeles and found that deregulation leads to the construction of more housing units and fewer parking spaces. Conversely, tighter regulation leads to a lack of affordable… Read more »
If San Francisco city planners get their way, the Castro District won’t be getting a Chipotle restaurant. the Bay Area Reporter reports: The burrito brawl has pit the city’s gay planning director John Rahaim against Steve Ells, the gay former San Francisco chef who founded the Denver-based chain in 1993 and is its chairman and… Read more »