Cities & Planning

Seattle has a history of infuriating maps. For its relatively young age as an official municipality, the place has produced amazing blood-boiling cartography. Some maps are infuriating because they…

A return to the coachbuilding approach, enabled by EV platforms

Okinawa is a brutalist wonderland.

Hawaii has been a leader in sustainability, but its schools have lagged behind. Now, some are embracing passive design techniques to take advantage of the natural climate.

Vertical farming is a technologically advanced method of growing food indoors. Learn more about its benefits in this infographic. (Sponsored content.)

54 million acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management aren’t meeting the agency’s own land-health standards.

It’s worth examining how the many, many “clean” crypto initiatives, currencies, blockchains, and marketplaces for non-fungible tokens actually stack up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_City_(web_series) Electric City is an animated, post-apocalyptic, science fiction, web series published through Yahoo!. It…

Africa’s energy future at a crossroad

Lithium is essential for batteries that power electric vehicles and store energy from solar and wind farms. A new U.S. source could provide 10 times more lithium than the country uses today.

One radical urban experiment in Barcelona could provide a blueprint for dealing with mobility, noise, walkability, and green space in other cities.

Experts are eyeing a promising solution to reduce planet-warming emissions: your neighborhood big-box stores and shopping malls.

Fleet-as-a-service offerings like those from Highland Electric and Thomas Built could help kick-start widespread EV adoption.

Years ago I learned two things about working at a Japanese corporation that Americans would find weird: 1. Upon being hired, it's not unusual to start by being sent to a live-in corporate training facility for a year or more, where you'd live in a company dormitory. 2. After completing

As we review the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) results as presented by Sound Transit, the decision to cut out all the central Ballard station options stands out as a huge mistake. There is o…

When the pandemic hit, everything that could possibly be done online made the jump — work, job-hunting, school, doctor’s visits, and so on. The shift was hard for everyone, but many Americans didn’t even have the fundamental thing needed to make that change: a fast and reliable internet. People without internet access showed up at

People are calling these investments "historic" and "unprecedented."

'Worn' by Sofi Thanhauser and the HBOMax series 'Station Eleven' offer novel ways to think about what we wear.

The Green Revolution helped feed a surging global population, but at the cost of impoverishing crop diversity. Now, with climate change increasingly threatening food supplies, the need for greater agricultural resilience means restoring endangered crop and food varieties.

Plans for a brand new 4.5-kilometer-long aerial tramway connecting various suburbs in the southeast to the Paris metro, are pressing ahead, with construction expected to begin this year.

The Barcelona superblock has been put forward as an innovative urban strategy to transform cities to be more liveable and sustainable. Whether superblocks could potentially be implemented in other cities as well and how disruptive potential sites are to traffic is discussed here.

Here's an interesting concept for a modular structure, though I'm not sure where it fits within the marketplace of easy-to-assemble buildings: Camping? Disaster relief? Temporary housing? Living quarters for remote workers? In any case, the $7,500 Quick Cabin is a 10x10 structure composed largely of modular rotomolded panels, each