Cities & Planning

Grätzloasen – low-cost, urban ‘parklets’ built by volunteers – are on the rise in Vienna as sceptics are being won over by the splash of welcome greenery and boost to community spirits

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Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

Shipwrights, custom/interior woodworkers and marine trade professionals who specialize in wooden boat building, repair and restoration. Also providing mast and rigging services, fiberglass repair, paint & varnish, and electronics & systems installation.

First Nations are Righting the Wrongs of NIMBY Settlers, and Solving the Urban Housing Crisis, in the Canadian West

One of the most significant transit gaps in Seattle is on Boren Ave between Jackson Street and Denny Way. Boren Ave is aligned with the downtown grid and runs through the heart of First Hill. The a…

An iron-air battery in the Netherlands, which can store energy for 100 hours or more to make renewable power sources more consistent, has become the world’s first “rust” battery to connect with an electricity grid

Here's a brilliant, outside-the-box solution to a problem. The backbone of American commerce is long-haul trucking. Everything you're wearing right now, and most things that make up the environment you're sitting in, arrived on the back of a truck. Those trucks are powered by diesel fuel, which isn't great. Fleet

WikiHouse is a digitally-manufactured building system that makes it simple for anyone to build beautiful, zero-carbon homes.

MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the world’s deepest holes in order to repurpose coal and gas plants.

Quaise is an energy company unlocking geothermal energy for the world population through millimeter wave drilling technology.

The flow battery is one of the more interesting ideas for grid energy storage – after all, how many batteries combine electron current with fluid current? If you’re interested in trying your hand a…

The idea has broad support from progressives, while some critics warn against “radical socialism.” But New York already has city-owned grocery stores.

Fortunately, every step of the electronics manufacturing chain is becoming more maker- and small-scale-manufacturer-friendly.

This InfinityCrane, by German logistics company CeiliX, is a revolutionary object-handling design for workshops, factories and warehouses. To allow workers to move heavy objects, facilities like these often use gantry cranes or bridge cranes. Those take up a lot of space, and are not suited for spaces

For decades there has been this tantalizing idea being pitched of pulling CO2 out of the air and using the carbon molecules for something more useful, like making plastics. Although this is a fairl…

So far in the “Field Guide” series, we’ve mainly looked at critical infrastructure systems that, while often blending into the scenery, are easily observable once you know where t…

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

As the Trump administration's “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.