As if in a coda to my post the other day , Plan Philly  brings news of the apartment project at 43rd and Baltimore -- across the street f...

At the beginning of the year, Charlie Gardner at Old Urbanist   offered an academic's findings on zoning, especially where American pra...

(Please note that this post is the intellectual chassis for some other work.) Philadelinquency recently ran an excellent piece on how...

Philadelphia's new Zoning Code came into effect today. What does that mean? Most superficially, all of the zoning designations in th...

The new Comprehensive Plan has a new subdistrict of CMX-5 (old C-5), called "Super CMX-5", which has a FAR of 1600% (allowing 16 s...

Archive trawling Nathaniel Hood's blog, I found this post with this interesting argument: To really understand the problem in 2011, y...

A common criticism of zoning is its often-asinine parking requirements. Why, for example, should every new rowhome on an urban block have to...

Philadelphia's Planning Commission is rewriting its zoning code . It's been a long time coming--the Code was last completely revam...