Daniel G. Parolek
Dan Parolek, Founding Principal of Opticos Design, is one of the foremost urban designers and architects working to meet the growing demand for walkable urban living. He is co-author of Form-Based Codes.
Smart Growth Network Webinar -- Missing Middle Housing (July 2021)
The Top Five Missing Middle Housing Implementation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Major housing shortages continue to affect communities in the U.S. and abroad. Many well-intended planning efforts seeking to address this problem are failing to deliver high-quality results, even when they’re aimed at filling the gap of “missing...
Major housing shortages continue to affect communities in the U.S. and abroad. Many well-intended planning efforts seeking to address this problem are failing to deliver high-quality results, even when they’re aimed at filling the gap of “missing middle housing” in cities and towns. Dan Parolek, author of Missing Middle Housing, shared the mistakes he sees communities doing as they seek to create more missing middle housing, explained why this is a problem, and outlined attainable solutions.
Webinar: Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis
A Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network event
Across the country, people are looking for housing options that shape affordable, walkable, and desirable neighborhoods.
Daniel Parolek inspired a new movement for housing choice in 2010 when he...
Across the country, people are looking for housing options that shape affordable, walkable, and desirable neighborhoods.
Daniel Parolek inspired a new movement for housing choice in 2010 when he coined the term “Missing Middle Housing,” a transformative concept that highlights a way to provide more housing and housing choices in sustainable, walkable places. This housing type includes a range of house-scale building with multiple units compatible in scale and form with detached single-family homes.
The Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network hosted this webinar on July 28, 2020, when Parolek, author of the book, Missing Middle Housing, illustrated how these housing types, when designed well, can be a powerful tool to create the communities that people both want and can afford.
Planning, Zoning and Legislation to Enable Missing Middle Housing
A SPUR Webinar
The mismatch between the types of housing currently available and the types that people need is especially apparent here in the Bay Area, with its soaring housing prices, overwhelming rent burdens and indomitable homelessness crisis. But across...
The mismatch between the types of housing currently available and the types that people need is especially apparent here in the Bay Area, with its soaring housing prices, overwhelming rent burdens and indomitable homelessness crisis. But across the country, people are looking for housing options that shape affordable, walkable and desirable neighborhoods. Enter missing middle housing, such as duplexes and fourplexes. Hear from the author of the new book, Missing Middle Housing, as he beautifully illustrates how these housing types, when designed well, can be a powerful tool to create the communities that people both want and can afford.
This webinar event was hosted by SPUR.