A 'fietsvlonder,' or bicycle platform, lets a neighborhood trial the change from car parking to bike parking to get used to the switch—and see if there's a demand—before it's made permanent.

Every room in a house has a purpose, a function that makes it different from all the others. Some are absolute must-haves ...

In a parking lot, 'Everything is scaled around the car too, whether that's lights, signs, or even the storefronts themselves,' the expert explained. 'In a city though, everything becomes human scale.' ...

For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an ...