Cities & Planning

A breakthrough solution to the worldwide housing crisis

The debate over more density or more tree canopy got personal as developers clash with the city’s Urban Forestry Commission.

Rebates from the IRA could help low- and middle-income households save thousands on heat pumps, weatherstripping, and other efficiency improvements.

It starts with beavers.

Seattle's new long-range plan for high capacity transit echoes vision maps created by Seattle Subway and advanced by The Urbanist. Seattle's long-range rail transit vision took a big step forward with the release of the Seattle Transportation Plan on Thursday. Before that, Seattle had not updated its high capacity transit plan since 2014, leaving uncertainty

A grass-roots movement aims to recast urban living in Paris and other cities around the world through a hyperlocal prism of neighborliness.

Solar panels have emerged as a transformative force in the realm of renewable energy, offering an array of positive impacts on the…

Right now, in Manhattan, 18% of office space is vacant. At the same time, the city of New York has a major housing problem, with more than 100,000 people using the municipal shelter system. So Eric Adams and city officials are talking a lot about taking those empty offices, and filling them with people. New

The Taliban has fresher trucks than us. The Honda Fit is dead. U can’t find a sauced-out 2-door to save your life. How did we get here??

The third entry in our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest is by Julie Haltom. She writes about the myriad of stumbling blocks faced by mid-twentieth-century homesteaders in Southern California&…

Revolutionary Aerogel Material Extracts Clean Drinking Water from Thin Air

Paul Krugman hypes renewables in the New York Times, but the Iron Law of Power Density won’t be repealed

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The project is a big step for Snohomish County's largest city, which has been slow to expand safe bike and pedestrian infrastructure. This spring, city crews working on a repaving project put down something that hadn't been seen before in Everett: green paint to mark a bike lane and some concrete barriers for that bike

The flight of office workers to the hinterlands will have profound effects on society.

There’s a growing trend for tarmacking over front gardens. Positive News readers are bucking it, by doing the exact opposite

Grand plans for a reborn, greener ferry fleet are much delayed just as new boats are needed more than ever. After an expected partnership fell apart, where can the state turn?

Do you know where Seattle, or your town, gets drinking water? Is it reliable and safe? Will we have enough water in the Puget Sound region as the population grows? What does today's drinking water in the Seattle area, the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, Spring Street downtown, migrating wild salmon, and a river that

Solarpunk is an art movement that envisions sustainable, utopian futures and it has helped the author realise that the fight isn’t over yet

Transit: Why Don't We Do It in the Road? Transit has been getting some tough breaks lately in the Puget Sound region and across much of the United States. Projects are behind schedule and overbudget, and agencies are struggling with labor shortages and with attracting riders back following the shock of the pandemic. Many have

Cities were designed to accommodate corporations, cars, and the needs of men. It might be time to build anew.