diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-publish-pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/build-publish-pypi.yml
index fbeed09e..b846784b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-publish-pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-publish-pypi.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build and check package
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --user hatch twine validate-pyproject[all]
+          python -m pip install --user -r ./environments/requirements/requirements-packaging.txt
           python -m validate_pyproject ./pyproject.toml
           python -m hatch build --clean
           python -m twine check --strict ./dist/*
diff --git a/environments/docker/Dockerfile b/environments/docker/Dockerfile
index aa9efa08..9ddbbc5d 100644
--- a/environments/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/environments/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ COPY --chmod=0755 ./README.md ./osmnx/
 
 # install and configuration everything in one RUN to keep image tidy
 RUN conda update --yes -c conda-forge --strict-channel-priority -n base conda mamba && \
-    mamba install --update-all --force-reinstall --yes -c conda-forge --strict-channel-priority --file ./osmnx/requirements.txt && \
+    mamba install --update-all --force-reinstall --yes -c conda-forge --strict-channel-priority --file ./osmnx/requirements-all.txt && \
     python -m pip install --no-cache-dir -e ./osmnx/ && \
     python -m ipykernel install --sys-prefix --name ox --display-name "Python (ox)" && \
     rm -f -r -v /opt/conda/share/jupyter/kernels/python3 && \
diff --git a/environments/make-env-files.py b/environments/make-env-files.py
index d1c8e5fd..97f83fcd 100644
--- a/environments/make-env-files.py
+++ b/environments/make-env-files.py
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 # noqa: INP001
-"""Make conda env.yml and pip requirements.txt files from environments.json data."""
+"""Make conda env.yaml and pip requirements.txt files from environments.json data."""
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import argparse
-import itertools
-import json
+from itertools import chain
+from json import load as json_load
 from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
 
-import tomllib
 from packaging.requirements import Requirement
+from tomllib import load as tomllib_load
 
 # path to package's pyproject and the config json file
-pyproject_path = "./pyproject.toml"
-environments_config_path = "./environments/requirements/environments.json"
+PYPROJECT_PATH = "./pyproject.toml"
+ENVS_CONFIG_PATH = "./environments/requirements/environments.json"
 
-# what channels to specify in conda env yml files
+# what channels to specify in conda env yaml files
 CHANNELS = ["conda-forge"]
 
 HEADER = (
@@ -25,21 +25,9 @@
 )
 
 
-def extract_optional_deps() -> list[Requirement]:
-    """
-    Extract a list of the optional dependencies/versions from pyproject.toml.
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    optional_deps
-    """
-    opts = pyproject["project"]["optional-dependencies"]
-    return list({Requirement(o) for o in itertools.chain.from_iterable(opts.values())})
-
-
 def make_requirement(
     requirement: Requirement,
-    force_pin: bool = False,  # noqa: FBT001,FBT002
+    pin_exact: bool = False,  # noqa: FBT001,FBT002
     is_conda: bool = True,  # noqa: FBT001,FBT002
 ) -> str:
     """
@@ -51,11 +39,11 @@ def make_requirement(
     ----------
     requirement
         A requirement object
-    force_pin
+    pin_exact
         If True, pin requirement to version rather than using existing
         specifier. Allows you to convert minimum versions to pinned versions.
     is_conda
-        If True and if `force_pin` is True, format the requirement string to
+        If True and if `pin_exact` is True, format the requirement string to
         end with ".*" for conda environment file pinning format compatibility.
 
     Returns
@@ -63,7 +51,7 @@ def make_requirement(
     requirement_str
     """
     specifiers = list(requirement.specifier)
-    if force_pin and len(specifiers) == 1:
+    if pin_exact and len(specifiers) == 1:
         spec = f"{requirement.name}=={specifiers[0].version}"
         if is_conda and not spec.endswith(".*"):
             spec += ".*"
@@ -71,53 +59,48 @@ def make_requirement(
     return str(requirement)
 
 
-def make_file(env_name: str) -> None:
+def make_file(env: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
     """
     Write a conda environment yaml file or pip requirements.txt file.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
-    env_name
-        An enviroment name among the keys of environments.json.
+    env
+        An environment configuration dictionary.
 
     Returns
     -------
     None
     """
-    env = envs[env_name]
+    depends_on = []
+    output_path = Path(env["output_path"])
 
-    # it's a conda env file if it ends with ".yml", otherwise it's a pip
-    # requirements.txt file
-    is_conda = env["output_path"].endswith(".yml")
+    # it's conda env if it's a yaml file, otherwise it's pip requirements.txt
+    is_conda = output_path.suffix in {".yaml", ".yml"}
 
     # determine which dependencies to add based on the configuration
-    depends_on = []
-    if env["needs_python"]:
-        python_dep = Requirement(f"python{pyproject['project']['requires-python']}")
-        depends_on.append(python_dep)
+    if is_conda:
+        depends_on.append(Requirement(f"python{pyproject['project']['requires-python']}"))
     if env["needs_dependencies"]:
-        dependencies = [Requirement(d) for d in pyproject["project"]["dependencies"]]
-        depends_on.extend(dependencies)
-    if env["needs_optionals"]:
-        optionals = extract_optional_deps()
-        depends_on.extend(optionals)
+        depends_on.extend(Requirement(d) for d in pyproject["project"]["dependencies"])
+        optionals = pyproject["project"]["optional-dependencies"].values()
+        depends_on.extend({Requirement(o) for o in chain.from_iterable(optionals)})
 
     # make the list of requirements
-    requirements = [
-        make_requirement(dep, force_pin=env["force_pin"], is_conda=is_conda) for dep in depends_on
-    ]
+    requirements = [make_requirement(dep, env["pin_exact"], is_conda) for dep in depends_on]
 
-    # add any extra requirements if provided in the configuration
+    # inject any additional requirement files if specified by the config
     if env["extras"] is not None:
         for extras_filepath in env["extras"]:
             with Path(extras_filepath).open() as f:
                 requirements += f.read().splitlines()
 
-    # convert the requirements to conda env yml or pip requirements.txt
+    # convert the requirements to conda env yaml or pip requirements text
     requirements = sorted(requirements)
     if not is_conda:
         text = HEADER + "\n".join(requirements) + "\n"
     else:
+        env_name = Path(output_path).stem
         data = {"name": env_name, "channels": CHANNELS, "dependencies": requirements}
         text = ""
         for k, v in data.items():
@@ -127,29 +110,20 @@ def make_file(env_name: str) -> None:
                 text += k + ": " + v + "\n"
         text = HEADER + text
 
-    # write the file to disk
-    with Path(env["output_path"]).open("w") as f:
+    # write the text to file on disk
+    with Path(output_path).open("w") as f:
         f.writelines(text)
 
-    print(f"Wrote {len(requirements)} requirements to {env['output_path']!r}")  # noqa: T201
+    print(f"Wrote {len(requirements)} requirements to {str(output_path)!r}")  # noqa: T201
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # load the pyproject.toml and the environments.json config files
-    with Path(pyproject_path).open("rb") as f:
-        pyproject = tomllib.load(f)
-    with Path(environments_config_path).open("rb") as f:
-        envs = json.load(f)
-
-    # parse any command-line arguments passed by the user
-    arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    arg_parser.add_argument("-n", dest="env_name", type=str)
-    args = arg_parser.parse_args()
-
-    if args.env_name is not None:
-        # if user passed -n command line argument, generate only that file
-        make_file(args.env_name)
-    else:
-        # otherwise, make all environment files
-        for env_name in envs:
-            make_file(env_name)
+    with Path(PYPROJECT_PATH).open("rb") as f:
+        pyproject = tomllib_load(f)
+    with Path(ENVS_CONFIG_PATH).open("rb") as f:
+        envs = json_load(f)
+
+    # make each environment/requirements file as configured
+    for env in envs:
+        make_file(env)
diff --git a/environments/requirements/environments.json b/environments/requirements/environments.json
index b66d8ba0..69b6b6cf 100644
--- a/environments/requirements/environments.json
+++ b/environments/requirements/environments.json
@@ -1,45 +1,47 @@
-{
- "env-ci": {
-  "output_path": "./environments/tests/env-ci.yml",
-  "needs_python": true,
-  "needs_dependencies": true,
-  "needs_optionals": true,
-  "force_pin": false,
-  "extras": ["./environments/requirements/requirements-docs.txt",
-    "./environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt"]
- },
- "env-test-minimum-deps": {
-  "output_path": "./environments/tests/env-test-minimum-deps.yml",
-  "needs_python": true,
-  "needs_dependencies": true,
-  "needs_optionals": true,
-  "force_pin": true,
-  "extras": ["./environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt"]
- },
- "requirements-test-latest-deps": {
-  "output_path": "./environments/tests/requirements-test-latest-deps.txt",
-  "needs_python": false,
-  "needs_dependencies": true,
-  "needs_optionals": true,
-  "force_pin": false,
-  "extras": ["./environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt"]
- },
- "requirements-rtd": {
-  "output_path": "./docs/requirements-rtd.txt",
-  "needs_python": false,
-  "needs_dependencies": false,
-  "needs_optionals": false,
-  "force_pin": false,
-  "extras": ["./environments/requirements/requirements-docs.txt"]
- },
- "requirements-all": {
-  "output_path": "./environments/requirements/requirements-all.txt",
-  "needs_python": false,
-  "needs_dependencies": true,
-  "needs_optionals": true,
-  "force_pin": false,
-  "extras": ["./environments/requirements/requirements-docs.txt",
-    "./environments/requirements/requirements-extras.txt",
-    "./environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt"]
- }
-}
+[
+  {
+    "output_path": "./environments/tests/env-ci.yml",
+    "needs_dependencies": true,
+    "pin_exact": false,
+    "extras": [
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-docs.txt",
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-packaging.txt",
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "output_path": "./environments/tests/env-test-minimum-deps.yml",
+    "needs_dependencies": true,
+    "pin_exact": true,
+    "extras": [
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "output_path": "./environments/tests/requirements-test-latest-deps.txt",
+    "needs_dependencies": true,
+    "pin_exact": false,
+    "extras": [
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "output_path": "./docs/requirements-rtd.txt",
+    "needs_dependencies": false,
+    "pin_exact": false,
+    "extras": [
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-docs.txt"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "output_path": "./environments/requirements/requirements-all.txt",
+    "needs_dependencies": true,
+    "pin_exact": false,
+    "extras": [
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-docs.txt",
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-extras.txt",
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-packaging.txt",
+      "./environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt"
+    ]
+  }
+]
diff --git a/environments/requirements/requirements-all.txt b/environments/requirements/requirements-all.txt
index 95f2a017..b520418d 100644
--- a/environments/requirements/requirements-all.txt
+++ b/environments/requirements/requirements-all.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # /environments/requirements/ and the requirements in pyproject.toml.
 bottleneck
 cartopy
-conda-smithy
 folium
 furo
 geopandas>=1.0
diff --git a/environments/requirements/requirements-extras.txt b/environments/requirements/requirements-extras.txt
index d8204ee5..12ea5efd 100644
--- a/environments/requirements/requirements-extras.txt
+++ b/environments/requirements/requirements-extras.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 bottleneck
 cartopy
-conda-smithy
 folium
 jupyterlab
 nbdime
diff --git a/environments/requirements/requirements-packaging.txt b/environments/requirements/requirements-packaging.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1bb70a07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/environments/requirements/requirements-packaging.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+hatch
+twine
+validate-pyproject
diff --git a/environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt b/environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt
index 9a03fb1d..209ec5e4 100644
--- a/environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt
+++ b/environments/requirements/requirements-tests.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-hatch
 lxml
 pip
 pre-commit
 pytest
 pytest-cov
-twine
 typeguard
-validate-pyproject
diff --git a/environments/tests/env-test-minimum-deps.yml b/environments/tests/env-test-minimum-deps.yml
index 3516c4dc..769d6f60 100644
--- a/environments/tests/env-test-minimum-deps.yml
+++ b/environments/tests/env-test-minimum-deps.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ channels:
   - conda-forge
 dependencies:
   - geopandas==1.0.*
-  - hatch
   - lxml
   - matplotlib==3.5.*
   - networkx==2.5.*
@@ -23,6 +22,4 @@ dependencies:
   - scikit-learn==0.23.*
   - scipy==1.5.*
   - shapely==2.0.*
-  - twine
   - typeguard
-  - validate-pyproject
diff --git a/environments/tests/requirements-test-latest-deps.txt b/environments/tests/requirements-test-latest-deps.txt
index d1675cc2..fc8dc7dd 100644
--- a/environments/tests/requirements-test-latest-deps.txt
+++ b/environments/tests/requirements-test-latest-deps.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # /environments/make-env-files.py using the environment definition files in
 # /environments/requirements/ and the requirements in pyproject.toml.
 geopandas>=1.0
-hatch
 lxml
 matplotlib>=3.5
 networkx>=2.5
@@ -18,6 +17,4 @@ rio-vrt>=0.3
 scikit-learn>=0.23
 scipy>=1.5
 shapely>=2.0
-twine
 typeguard
-validate-pyproject
diff --git a/environments/unix-create-env.sh b/environments/unix-create-env.sh
index 8387ad4a..d22724a3 100755
--- a/environments/unix-create-env.sh
+++ b/environments/unix-create-env.sh
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ conda activate base
 conda env remove --yes -n $ENV || true
 mamba create --yes -c conda-forge --strict-channel-priority -n $ENV --file ./requirements/requirements-all.txt
 conda activate $ENV
-python -m pip --python $ENV_PATH uninstall $PACKAGE --yes
-python -m pip --python $ENV_PATH install -e ../.
-python -m ipykernel install --prefix $ENV_PATH --name $ENV --display-name "Python ($ENV)"
+python -m pip --python "$ENV_PATH" uninstall $PACKAGE --yes
+python -m pip --python "$ENV_PATH" install -e ../.
+python -m ipykernel install --prefix "$ENV_PATH" --name $ENV --display-name "Python ($ENV)"
 conda list -n $ENV
-python -m pip --python $ENV_PATH check
+python -m pip --python "$ENV_PATH" check
 jupyter kernelspec list
 ipython -c "import $PACKAGE; print('$PACKAGE version', $PACKAGE.__version__)"
diff --git a/tests/lint_test.sh b/tests/lint_test.sh
index f17e0e03..d412c2da 100755
--- a/tests/lint_test.sh
+++ b/tests/lint_test.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # delete temp files and folders
 rm -r -f ./.coverage* ./.pytest_cache ./.temp ./dist ./docs/build ./*/__pycache__
 
+# create all the configured environment/requirements files
+python ./environments/make-env-files.py
+
 # run the pre-commit hooks for linting/formatting
 pre-commit run --all-files
 
@@ -12,13 +15,12 @@ python -m validate_pyproject ./pyproject.toml
 python -m hatch build --clean
 python -m twine check --strict ./dist/*
 
-# build the docs and test that links are alive
-python -m sphinx -E -W --keep-going -b html ./docs/source ./docs/build/html
-python -m sphinx -E -W --keep-going -b linkcheck ./docs/source ./docs/build/linkcheck
-
 # run the tests and report the test coverage
 python -m pytest --verbose --maxfail=1 --typeguard-packages=osmnx --cov=osmnx --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered
 
+# build the docs and test that links are alive
+python -m sphinx -q -a -E -W --keep-going -b html ./docs/source ./docs/build/html
+python -m sphinx -q -a -E -W --keep-going -b linkcheck ./docs/source ./docs/build/linkcheck
+
 # delete temp files and folders
-sleep 1
 rm -r -f ./.coverage* ./.pytest_cache ./.temp ./dist ./docs/build ./*/__pycache__