Cities & Planning

# As Sound Transit builds the largest light rail expansion in the country, splitting the system into urban and suburban lines could unlock its full potential and queue up logical extensions.

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Farmers in the USA are waking up to the benefits of keeping sheep on solar farms, but Europe’s been doing this for ages.

Ruth Stout didn’t plow, dig, water, or weed—and now her “no-work” method is everywhere. But behind her secret to the perfect plot lay other secrets and other plots.

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A Peek Inside France's TGV M, the Modular Train Setting a New Standard for High-Speed Rail (This post may have already landed in your inbox. I've made some updates, and welcomed some new arrivals from Substack, so I'm sending out a new version. I've tried to make sure it's not

We’ve all seen the ads. Some offer “free” solar panels. Others promise nearly free energy if you just purchase a solar — well, solar system doesn’t sound right —…

Food and Country: trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches across political and social divides to report on the country's broken food system and the innovators risking everything to transform it.

About 76% of incorporated places have fewer than 5,000 people and about a third of those have less than 500 people.

In the US, public transit is often organized at the county level, so the service ends where the county does. There are countless situations like this, where two significant cities are 20-80 miles apart with a county line separating them:       If transit is provided by county-level agencies, the service in this situation […]

# Nearly a dozen tool libraries are operating in the Puget Sound region and Kirkland is aiming to join the club. Here's what tool libraries add to communities.

“Solar is winning.”

When “YIMBYs” first appeared on the scene, it appeared to many as though they had come out of the blue. But it turns out YIMBYism is part of a long American tradition.

People want to run EV charging stations as a business, but could you sell gasoline for $4/gallon if almost everybody has a $1/gallon filling station at home?

Landed in Tokyo. I do not know the day of the week or why it’s still dark outside.

It appears that gray and neutral tones on houses are a sign of gentrification in cities. To demonstrate, for the Washington Post, Marissa Lang and John Harden analyzed D.C. house images from Google…

# The 3-2 vote in committee sets up a final decision later this month, but the Port of Seattle is suggesting they may take legal action against the move.

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In some cities, a large percentage of the population has access to public transit, whereas in others, access is limited. Aniket Kali and Jeff Allen mapped rail transit on population density and the…

Eversource is building the country's first gas utility-led networked geothermal system in Framingham. Environmentalists hope it can be a model for other gas utilities to wean themselves off of fossil fuels.

Ground-source heat pump systems are one of the most efficient ways to do climate control, but digging the wells can be prohibitively expensive for the individual citizen. What if you could do it at…

At the co-op, fresh, delicious food is just the beginning.

From the perspective of complex systems, a new study reveals the universality, specificity, and explanatory power of underlying rules governing urban system evolution. The paper is authored by an international ...

This week, there are two new models to reflect: Grok-3 and Claude 3.7. And much more from the news. And thinking about prediction markets for value relation flows.

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A Chicago Deep-Dish-Dive on History's Ur-Streamliner

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has been hailed as one of the greatest advantages of electrifying transportation, but has so far remained mostly in the lab. Hoping to move things forward, the National Electr…

A 30-acre construction lab is helping reshape Colombia’s architecture with ancestral knowledge and direct ecological action. We head inside their smoking doughnut

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.