Zoning
Liberal zoning. Let people develop what they want to on their land.
Building codes
Minimize regulation.
Building scalable cities
Grid layout. Latin America, China, Korea, Japan.
On-street parking
On-street parking heavily underutilizes land. Ban/do not build it. Let market decide where to build parking on private japan. Japan understands and embraces this.
Parking minimums
Eliminate them.
Bikeshare
More efficient than personal bike ownership in cities. Netherlands needs this.
Bikes/Micromobility and Transit
Bikes/Micromobility
Most efficient form of transit in terms of space required, cost, health benefits (cost), and speed. Bikes can cover 9-16x more area than walking can.
Trains
Like why build highways lol?
The power of micromobility + transit
By riding micromobility to or from a transit station instead of walking, you can save a significant amount of time, and even make micro + transit more competitive than driving. You can do this by:
- Parking your bike at the station you are going to
- Having a bike available at your destination station
- Using microshare to go to/from the station
- Bringing your micromobility (bike, scooter, folding bike) on the transit itself
Autonomous vehicles
- Will not replace transit in the near term (hinges on post-work economy). Induced demand will yield higher trip numbers in vehicles, filling the gaps made by efficiency gains. Transit will likely still be competitive in terms of cost, and time during peak periods
- Should be welcome in the urbanist movement. They yield significant safety improvements, a key goal of the movement. They also shift accountability onto corporations, which are more possible to hold accountable than individual drivers.
AVs + High speed rail
Huge potential.
City planning and the future
Post-work economy
No commutes? Significant portion of trips reduced (majority). People can live anywhere.
Drone delivery
Will heavily reduce in-person shopping and thus number of trips.
Overall
We may end up with significantly overbuilt cities. Not that anyone’s going to care since Americans can afford it. But not necessary good for competition at a multinational scale.