Many streets in Tokyo and other Japanese cities are relatively narrow compared with typical U.S. roads, which can make operating or parking large pickup trucks such as the Ford F-150 impractical.
October 27, 2025
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Urban street widths affect the practicality of large vehicles in Japanese cities.
As of early 2025, New York City had received about 3,000 applications under its new seasonal outdoor-dining program, compared with roughly 12,000 street dining setups during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic; only a fraction of those 3,000 applications were fully approved by spring 2025.
March 31, 2025
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Counts of applications and prior program scale illustrate the reduction in outdoor-dining installations after the emergency-era program.
Cities across the United States have been rolling back pandemic-era outdoor dining programs by shifting to seasonal permits, dismantling enclosed structures, imposing fees and stricter design and safety standards, and reclaiming street parking.
January 01, 2025
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Describes a multi-city policy trend in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Commission of Fine Arts is a federal board that reviews, provides comments on, and approves architecture and construction in Washington, D.C., and the National Capital Planning Commission is a separate federal board that also reviews construction in the capital.
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Describes durable institutional roles in oversight of architecture and construction in the U.S. capital.
Zohran Mamdani proposed building 200,000 affordable housing units in New York City.
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Campaign housing target proposed by the candidate