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The Rise of Co-Living Spaces: Building Community, Brick by Brick (and Beyond!)

Jorge Matiz, April 25, 2025April 25, 2025

The way we live, you know, how we work, who we connect with – it’s all changing so fast. And our homes? They need to keep up! Remember when a white picket fence was the ultimate goal? Now, people are craving something deeper: A place to belong, a way to…

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Urban Zoning Laws

The Impact of Zoning Laws on Architectural Innovation

Jorge Matiz, April 21, 2025April 25, 2025

I still remember pitching my ambitious design for a community center – a building designed to practically breathe with passive solar heating and a clever rainwater harvesting system. The planning board’s reaction? Let’s just say it wasn’t exactly a standing ovation. I was met with this wall of non-compliant issues:…

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Cars, Parking and Planetizen: A Mess of Externalities

Randall Crane, August 5, 2010April 25, 2025

Planetizen has two early July 2010 essays and two comments on road and parking externalities and subsidies that are as good examples as any of (a) how fundamental the concepts of externality and subsidies are to evaluating public policy and (b) how hard they are to explain, or even understand….

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