Cities & Planning

'Black Earth Rising' illuminates links between the climate crisis, land, colonization, diasporas, and social and environmental justice.

Eco-Thoughts #8

The interactive Medieval Murder Map gives unique insight into danger, violence, and justice in medieval London, York & Oxford.

Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small stores such as Fernandes Produce and Big D’s. The city also had supermarkets from classic New England chains like Star Market and Almacs. Over the years, however, the city’s economy took a turn for the worse. Factories closed and

The MRCOOL DIY is the only truly do-it-yourself ductless mini-split. The MRCOOL DIY series heat pumps are affordable, efficient and easy to install HVAC solutions with a clean and subtle design.

Sometimes people ask, why is xyz house bad? Asking this question does not imply that the asker has bad taste or no taste whatsoever - it means that they are simply not educated in basic architectural...

It's not something we've really thought about, but shopping carts can get pretty nasty over time from all of the people who touch them and things that get

# Washington State has big housing plans and ambitious planning tools, but it needs binding commitments across public, private, and social sectors to turn vision into reality. As it stands, housing isn't being built fast enough to stem the affordability crisis.

The city may not realize it, but its new housing jargon has a real meaning that could transform San Francisco

A new research centre is set to transform our understanding of animal feelings and the impact of human actions on them

Editor’s note: In anticipation of what we all believe will be a stellar UHA conference this October 9-12 in Los Angeles, we featured Los Angeles as our theme in May. With the conference still in mi…

Unlocking cities’ growing underutilised spatial assets for an emergent civic economy

We’re excited to share the latest updates on Permissioning the City (PtC). Our vision to transform how urban spaces are managed and shared…

The small town of Plympton, Massachusetts, took the bold step of making everyone pay for what they toss.

From the spring 2025 edition of Geist comes an amazing piece of writing  from essayist Soraya Roberts, who documents a trip on the The Canadian, Canada’s only mostly trans-national train. “This is …

A new book traces how the American prairie was nearly destroyed and why its return is so necessary for our future.

For a world covered in oceans, getting a drink of water on Planet Earth can be surprisingly tricky. Fresh water is hard to come by even on our water world, so much so that most sources are better m…

Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to slow federal funding for building electric vehicle chargers across the country, the number of ports is

Norway’s crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?

For a short time, the U.S. government not only built houses, it constructed entire communities.

It is possible to coordinate the operation of large numbers of home air-conditioning units to balance supply and demand on the power grid.

Prehistoric humans didn’t create art and architecture out of nothing. They took inspiration from the nonhuman world

South County has half a million people and no full-service university of its own. But for years it’s been trying to lure one.

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This post is our way of collaborating on that strategy to you. To share where we’re headed, how we plan to get there, and why we believe this approach can unlock a new era of housing. We offer it in the spirit of transparency and gratitude for those of you who are already on board, and for those just beginning to tune in.

When calamity strikes, as it often has in the Appalachian community of Swannanoa, North Carolina, the “proud, fierce, and maybe a little crazy” working

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