Cities & Planning

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.

Early last week, crews with Seattle's Office of the Waterfront installed a very short stretch of two-way bike lane, at the foot of Yesler Way approaching Alaskan Way and Washington State Ferries Colman Dock. The new bike lane was timed to go in at the same time that new traffic patterns around the state ferry

Public misconceptions, based on outdated land management ideology, are the single biggest hurdle to forest conservation in California.

More than 95 percent of the gas the utility delivers to customers is derived from fossil fuels.

The Congress of the New Urbanism has always been a good starting point for me when attempting illustrate development intensity. Does it ne...

As retail giant Wilko collapses into administration, people are asking: what can be done to save the UK's high streets? Here are some ideas

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What the research says about the characteristics of unsafe traffic intersections and crosswalk designs that can improve pedestrian safety.

Kai Tak was an international airport situated in the heart of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Peninsula. Twenty-five years ago, it was replaced by the Hong Kong International Airport in Chek Lap Kok.…

Last week I wrote about the tension that the US national rail carrier Amtrak faces between ridership goals — which require focusing on its best markets — and coverage goals — which require covering the entire country.  I was applying a framework that I developed for urban public transit, but that seemed relevant enough to […]

Sound Transit was officially given the go-ahead to move forward with a plan to begin light rail service between eight isolated stations on the Eastside in spring of next year, after a vote by the agency's System Expansion committee Thursday. The East Link Starter Line, as it's called, was developed as an interim way to

Regenerative Agriculture, Polyculture, Ecology, Regenerative Landscape Desing, Permaculture, Gardening, Ecological Gardening

City planners say we have to rethink the way we build urban areas to make them more sustainable, healthy and just. The so-called 15-minute city is one idea. But are they viable?

Vast arrays of solar panels floating on calm seas near the Equator could provide effectively unlimited energy to densely populated countries in Asia and Africa.

One of downtown Seattle's most congested roads holds back the entire city's transit network...but major solutions are nowhere on the horizon. Traffic congestion on Denny Way in north Downtown Seattle has turned Route 8, which runs between Seattle Center and Mount Baker via Capitol Hill, a running joke for years. "I'm on the L8," you

The Jeep ad during the Super Bowl was just the latest example of car companies trying to greenwash their SUVs.

Electric cars fix one pollution problem—and worsen another.

Moving them from point A to point B is a weighty matter.

When we count on vehicle size to protect us in a crash, what do we expect to happen?

It’s time to tax vehicles for weighing too much—even if they’re electric.