Cities & Planning

Some common geographic mental misplacements

A thirsty megafarm is driving a libertarian enclave in rural Arizona to a radical solution: government regulation of its groundwater.

Toxic landfills are emblems of environmental injustice across the US. Clean energy can remake them.

The number of bug splatters on cars has plummeted over the years. But we found a surprising explanation for the so-called "windshield phenomenon."

Even if you haven’t made the pilgrimage to Southern California, you can probably already picture what the Walk of Fame looks like. It’s a 1.3 mile walkway lined with terrazzo and brass squares. Each slab spotlights a salmon-pink star, and the name of a different famous celebrity deemed worthy enough to become a permanent part

Let’s say you want to improve the Wikipedia page for Clayton Indiana with an aerial photograph. Feel free to use the one above. That’s why I shot it, posted it, and licensed it permissi…

The Sprawl Repair Manual presents a comprehensive methodology for transforming sprawl developments into human-scale, sustainable communities. In this richly illustrated book, Galina Tachieva draws …

“*Everything* peaked in the '70s, including house design. Where are the architects creating houses with a central "grooving area" these days? Nowhere man. Nowhere.”

Springfield has its own Tool Library sponsored by the Community Partnership of the Ozarks that's just like a book library...except you check-out tools.

Our cities can run on empty.

CLAYTEC e.K. produces and distributes building materials from clay via the building materials trade.

Greenhouses could make local fruits and vegetables more available year-round, but they're energy intense. In the Midwest, some growers tap into the Earth's internal heat to warm the structures.

Norwegian Roald Amundsen was perhaps the greatest star of the so-called 'golden age' of Arctic expedition — and he used Seattle as a base camp.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Southwest Florida still don't have electricity or water. But Babcock Ranch, north of Fort Myers, was designed and built to withstand the most powerful storms.

Environmental disruptions and technological advances have always influenced where and how people live. Early humans may have left Africa after rapid fluctuations in rainfall destroyed their food supply, and the opening up of the American Southwest occurred roughly in parallel with improvements in air-conditioning technology. In the decades ahead, a warming planet and a booming population will again alter where we live and how we construct our homes.

West Burton A will be the site of the prototype fusion energy power plant, the government announces.

An unclosed chapter of Japanese American incarceration is preserved in the basement of a Chinatown-International District hotel.

Hollywood Park Racetrack is gone. In its place is SoFi Stadium, the 77,000-seat home of Los Angeles’ two pro football teams and much else, including the 6,000-seat YouTube Theater. There&#821…

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Traffic signal lights in British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and other parts of Canada feature a flashing green traffic light to indicate it as a “pedestrian-controlled” intersection; mean…

A Dublin startup is recycling the heat released by data centers and using it to provide heating inside homes. Can the impact be more than a drop in the bucket?

New maps reveal a picture of daily exposure to wildfire smoke in better geographic detail than ever before.

Bee bus stops first appeared in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Now the UK is planning for more than 1,000 and there is growing interest across Europe and in Canada and Australia