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Terminal upgrades are only half the story. The next decade will be won by airports that fix access, manage the curb, and prepare for aviation’s climate transition.

A key FMCSA denial and evolving NHTSA crash reporting show the freight future will be governed, not just engineered. The early winners will be geofenced logistics nodes with clear rules and infrastructure.

The $5B NEVI program is reorganizing where people stop, how long they stay, and what gets built next to highways. Cities that modernize zoning now can capture corridor value instead of watching it pass by.

Zoning has always been about what goes where. But climate risk is changing the definition of “where.” In many regions, the toughest housing question is no longer just “how many units can we allow?” It’s “how many units can we allow in places that won’t be flooded, burned, or stranded? ” A key regional analysis tied to zoning capacity and climate risk put the stakes plainly for the NYC region: current residential zoning development capacity is projected to allow less than half

The clean energy buildout is now colliding with the oldest power in American local government: land-use control. Wind, solar, and transmission need land. Local zoning can slow them, reshape them, or block them outright. And the scale of the conflict is rising. A major 2025 research update from Columbia’s Sabin Center documented the growth of local restrictions and disputes: by the end of 2024, at least 459 counties and municipalities across 44 states  had adopted severe local

If the 2010s zoning fights were about apartments, the 2020s fights are increasingly about infrastructure disguised as real estate. Data centers—driven by cloud computing and the AI boom—are land-intensive, power-hungry, and politically explosive when they land near neighborhoods. Zoning is now the front line. Northern Virginia is the case study because it’s one of the world’s most concentrated data center regions. As expansion accelerated, the conflict shifted from abstract

Local control is the mythology of American zoning. But in 2025, the real story is state power—especially in California, where the state has increasingly treated housing scarcity as a statewide economic emergency rather than a neighborhood preference. The result is a new zoning reality: your city’s plan may be less powerful than the state’s housing statutes. Start with SB 9, California’s lot-split and duplex law. It was designed to legalize small-scale infill in single-family

The loudest housing debates aren’t always about a single tower, a single block, or a single rezoning. More and more, the fight is over the operating system  of the city: citywide zoning packages that tweak the rules everywhere, unlocking “small” amounts of additional housing across thousands of lots. That’s the “ City of Yes” template —and it stays a core conversation because it touches every neighborhood, shifts what’s legal by default , and rewrites baseline feasibility for

New South Wales is turning climate ambition into a hard infrastructure program. The state has legislated a 70% emissions reduction target by 2035 (from 2005 levels) on the way to net zero by 2050, anchoring its strategy in a network of Renewable Energy Zones (REZs) that bundle generation, storage, and transmission at regional scale.   Under the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap , five REZs are being rolled out as “clean energy industrial parks” that concentrate high-qual