Cities & Planning

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer (September 14, 1885 – May 6, 1967) was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Mies van der Rohe, as well as for his work in urban planning at Armour Institute of Technology (now Illinois Institute of Technology), in Chicago, Illinois.[1][2]

I ran across these distinctions between economies in a talk I went to awhile back. An extractive economy takes away from ecology. A sustainable economy lessens the damage to ecology. It focuses on things like reducing and recycling. A regenerative economy helps build back ecology.

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways hosted a Town Hall Seattle event on building great streets featuring two leading practitioners. Check out the video and synopsis.

Telraam puts citizens in control of local mobility policy. Telraam is a high-quality tool for carrying out traffic counts that can be found transparently on a website and is freely accessible to everyone.

Allowing livestock to graze under renewable developments gives farmers a separate income stream, but solar developers in Australia have been slow to catch on.

In downtown Atlanta, shipping containers have been transformed into an oasis for dozens of previously unsheltered people who now proudly call a former parking lot home.

SDOT seems to assume Aurora Avenue cannot accommodate pedestrians, bicyclists, transit, cars, and freight simultaneously, but this design proposal that will do just that. In the process, it'd make the deadly corridor much safer for all users.

In this blog, to mark World Homeless Day on 10 October, we look at how the Finland city’s Housing First approach has successfully decreased street homelessness Homelessness is the ultimate product of a broken housing system, but World Habitat knows that there are beacons of excellence that provide hope for everyone working to end street […]

Jefferson Center and WellPower of Denver are building permanent supportive housing complexes modeled after a 2017 Denver building that still has a waitlist.

Dominion Energy, the state’s largest utility, says new natural gas plants will be needed to meet rising electricity demand, while the state studies how this booming sector will impact Virginia’s transition to renewable energy.

Delve into the world of architectural documentaries with Wim Wenders and the innovative approach of Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine in capturing spaces.

Carbon dioxide can be ‘charged’ like a battery – and then capture carbon dioxide

"Rather than looking at how to stimulate domestic demand by building bridges or roads, we should provide a proper environment for our future generations because children are Japan's best investment" - Hayao Miyazaki Key points: Hayao Miyazaki argued in 2008 that investing in children and families should take precedence over stimulating domestic demand.

This eco-friendly heat pump offers a sustainable and versatile heating solution, saving energy costs and reducing carbon emissions.

The relationship between universities and urban neighborhoods must be strengthened.

On Riding Dublin's Human Transit-Redesigned Bus Network. // In last week's post, I wrote about the relative lack of rail transit in Dublin, a city with a population of 1.28 million (2.12 million in "Greater Dublin"). Much smaller cities in Europe have metro systems of their own; Dublin is

Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!

The city of Valencia has ambitious plans of developing the largest urban solar farm by using solar panels in its cemeteries.

Citizen coalitions prevented the 1963 freeway from being extended through the Central District, splitting a mostly Black neighborhood. Some ruins remain.

A new study suggests vehicle-to-grid technology and reused old EV batteries could meet all of the EU’s need for battery storage—and then some.

Tiny EVs come of age again in the third microcar renaissance.

The use of concrete and steel have both become the bedrock of modern-day construction, which of course also means that there is a lot of both which ends up as waste once said construction gets demo…

Sometimes design firms are commissioned to do concept work that never sees the light of day. As one example, Berlin-based agency XOIO was asked by Daimler to envision future mobility scenarios. The project yielded few images and is only published on XOIO's site, but I find these two shots, depicting

If you’ve spent any amount of time driving through any major American city, you know what it’s like to be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. But if you’re from Los Angeles – the land of freeways, traffic and smog –  you know this struggle especially well.   But Jake Berman, the author of The Lost

The first in a series exploring the myths and realities surrounding heat pumps

Born in Seattle’s Japantown, he rose from hardship to build aspirational icons like the Pacific Science Center and the World Trade Center.

Editor’s note: This is the third entry in our theme for May, Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. by Alexandra Camille Schultz Introduction: From Edge to Center[1] In the early twentieth century, m…