That said, there's already a severe street-parking shortage near my office, and they're currently building two more highrises across the street; it looks like at least one of the buildings, if not both, are ignoring the city's requirement to build parking in any new construction, so we're bracing for a nightmare if and when those buildings are actually occupied. (Which, the way things go here, could be years after they're actually built.)
Washington D.C. also has a height restriction, as do some of the surrounding communities; this blogger based in the Maryland suburbs has some interesting suggestions for regulating the construction of taller buildings so as to make them greener and more workable.
NYC has strict parking space laws that work in the opposite direction in Manhattan - i.e. you are not allowed to build much of it. That's a good thing - the core of the Midtown office district has about 700,000 jobs packed into one square kilometer, I'm not quite sure how one would handle that with car based commuting.
Lack of parking space has been shown to be the single most important factor driving traffic in Paris, so the city is busy reducing the overall stock inside Paris. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
