Amazon Plans to Put 1,000 Warehouses in Suburban Neighborhoods

Spencer Soper of Bloomberg quotes Urbanism Next Director Nico Larco in this article about new warehouses and the changing delivery landscape, largely driven by e-commerce companies.

“Regulation is definitely flat-footed right now,” says Nico Larco, an architecture professor at the University of Oregon, who studies urban land use. “The warehouse doesn’t want to be tucked away in an industrial district any more. It wants to be right next to you. But when these things come to our neighborhoods, they’re unsightly.”