Cities & Planning

Tokyo’s low crime rates, world-leading transportation network, and affordable rents make it one of the world’s most livable cities. Despite its incredible size, the city is also home to a large number of microspaces, which range from tens of thousands of cozy microbars and restaurants to tiny mom-and-pop shops that occupy the ground floors of many row houses. In “Understanding Tokyo’s Land Use: The Power of Microspaces,” Joe McReynolds considers the lessons that the city can (and cannot) provide for American urban policy.

The secret sauce of dense, mixed-use urbanism.

A review of "Emergent Tokyo", by Jorge Almazán and Studiolab

Little-known e-rickshaw companies like YC Electric are at the forefront of the country’s EV revolution. India’s electric rickshaws are leaving EVs in the dust Each month, this upskilled team produces...

In the Anthropocene, innovative architecture will rely less on formal or material invention and more on repair, retrofit, renovation — on the collective pursuit of decarbonization. For architects this is a growth opportunity. Or better, a de-growth opportunity.

Discover how solar hot water heaters work and their benefits, plus installation tips to maximize your energy savings.

In 1910, twin tragedies eroded trust in the railway system and over a century later stand as the most fatal ever in Washington and British Columbia.

Up to 10 Sound Transit-owned parking facilities -- including at all Link station parking facilities -- could see daily paid parking begin around the time that the Lynnwood Link Extension opens.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to discuss industrial overcapacity with top Chinese officials during her trip to China that starts on Wednesday.

During the Little Ice Age, Native North Americans devised whole new economic, social, and political structures.

Eleven "Street Ends" along the south shore of Salmon Bay and the Fremont Cut offer great recreational opportunities. SDOT and volunteers from Friends of Street Ends work to maintain and expand these mini parks.

As federal relief money dries up, cities and counties can’t keep up with inflation. Officials suggest removing limits on one crucial revenue source.

We spoke with Cynthia Brothers, founder of the project that highlights disappearing institutions and cultures in the city, about losing public spaces.

To remember the 1974 event that drew more than five million people, the city will host celebrations focusing on the environment and Indigenous culture.

Shipping is not a clean business. The global economy is fueled by trade, and much of that trade involves hauling product from point A to point B. A great deal of that product goes by water. Shippin…

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Residents in Saint-Joachim can join this unusual community energy scheme for just €5.

As warming temperatures enable tall fescue to move northward, scientists and ranchers are racing to stop its expansion.

By being crystal clear that most councilmembers don't support reallocating existing street space to create new bike corridors, the Bellevue City Council effectively rejected the network its transportation department created.

King County Metro is launching its bus restructure planning process to accompany Federal Way Link, which opens sometime in 2026 adding three stations and about eight miles of light rail between SeaTac and Federal Way. Fill out Metro's scoping survey.

Residential electricity prices jumped nearly 12% in 2023 and they are going higher. But the carbon intensity of power generation isn't falling and low-income ratepayers are subsidizing the rich.

Recent initiatives at both Sound Transit and the City of Seattle have put the issue of safety along the at-grade segment of light rail tracks in the Rainier Valley back in the spotlight.

Pyxis Ocean fitted with WindWings sails travelled across Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean

One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.