The New York City Planning Commission voted nearly unanimously to approve the neighborhood-wide Gowanus rezoning on Sept. 22, pushing the contentious development plan one step closer to reality. The ...

The Department of City Planning’s new Brooklyn director is zoning in on parts of the borough in dire need of planning overhauls in the hopes of increasing the current housing stock. DCP’s Brooklyn ...

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This week D.C. will hold its third and final round of public meetings for a little-known planning process that could reshape the city’s balance between neighborhood schools and charters. For the ...

You may already have read economist Ed Glaeser’s long Atlantic cover story about why skyscrapers are great. It’s pretty much a reprint of a chapter in his just-published book, Triumph of the ...

Paper streets exist only in subdivision plans and are never built. Saco originally had close to 90 paper streets, according to 2017 reports, but the list has been reduced over the years to about 25.