Cities & Planning

Shortly after new steel bollard replacements were installed on Capp Street to deter sex work, several are already damaged.

How Ronald Coase can change your life

Dense cities don’t have room for everyone’s car.  If too many people use cars, they take up all the available space and still get in each other’s way, which is what congestion is. This was all obvious, and much discussed, when cars first appeared on the scene.  So the prospect of making the car the […]

American architect and urban designer Daniel Burnham’s famous "make no small plans" imperative is destroying your city and your life. You should get a bingo card when attending a city planning conference. Instead of numbers, the squares should have pop-planning phrases to be crossed off as you hear them in lectures. Maslow’s Hierarchy and Jacob’s

Dense cities don’t have room for everyone’s car.  If too many people use cars, they take up all the available space and still get in each other’s way, which is what congestion is. This was all obvious, and much discussed, when cars first appeared on the scene.  So the prospect of making the car the […]

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A new report quantifies the climatic, natural and pollutant limits that ensure the safe and orderly maintenance of civilization

In 1910, a failed House bill sought to increase the availability of low-cost meat by importing hippopotamuses that would be killed to make "lake cow bacon"

Season 3 of the Where the Internet Lives podcast explores how data centers change the world around them in surprising and beneficial ways.

A new book returns to the fundamental beauty and communal nature of libraries, traveling the globe to visit some of the most alluring places.

Burning coal to create electricity is shockingly inefficient.

Transforming the Home for the Post-Child Era: Solutions for Empty Nesting

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Despite possibility that first decades may see restricted flying ranges, electric aircraft and electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL)

What is Housing First? Housing First is a homeless assistance approach that prioritizes providing permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness, thus ending their homelessness and serving as a platform from which they can pursue personal goals and improve their quality […]

The strategy is part of the California Independent System Operator’s latest transmission plan, which calls for 45 projects estimated to cost $7.3 billion.

Trains were supposed to be climate-friendly transportation. Now, extreme weather is making them less dependable.

The start-up train line is one of several night trains coming to Europe, offering climate-friendly alternatives to flying.

Don’t expect a race back to the workplace if it remains a hassle to get there.

The U.S. does not have a single commercial-scale offshore wind farm, but it will soon.

Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don’t resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. In the century since

The world’s biggest, most functional city might also be the most pedestrian-friendly. That’s not a coincidence.

In his new book, journalist Henry Grabar reimagines the urban streetscape.

A contract modification for more escalator and elevator maintenance services was approved by the Sound Transit Board of Directors in April, following a briefing and scrutiny in an agency committee …

The Urbanist is excited to announce our first tours of the season. The inaugural tour is 10am Saturday, May 27th with Lid I-5, a group dedicated to advocating for freeway lids over I-5 in Seattle i…

The Jumpstart Seattle tax was a take-off-the-mask moment for Seattle that is still reverberating through Seattle politics. Some would have us believe low taxes are more important than investments i…

Global Warming's Six Americas.