Cities & Planning

Officials say they're embracing housing growth, but have some caveats. As Washington's middle housing bill, HB 1110, advanced through the legislature during the first few months of 2023, few city governments were pushing back as ardently at every stage of the process more than Woodinville. The city of 13,000 people on the northern edge of

Today, the city buses in Madison, Wisconsin began doing something new, thanks to a network redesign project that our firm developed with our friends at Madison Metro.  Core parts of the network will run frequently all day for the first time.  More important, many travel times across the city will be much faster, because the […]

The current system makes it hard to build the long-distance power lines needed to transport wind and solar nationwide.

Filmmaker Guillaume Lion visited Low-tech Magazine in Barcelona and turned his experience into a comic for the Belgian magazine Médor.

General Manager Michelle Allison said King County Metro is charting a path to growth, but recovery will take time. Last month King County Metro took the unusual step of announcing its fall service change in the spring. The reason: The agency is cutting service by 4% due to a labor shortage and wanted to soften

The governor was honored with an award from the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. A shared enthusiasm for trail networks and the unique recreational opportunities the Olympic Peninsula offers set the tone for this year’s in-person board convening of the national Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) in Sequim. RTC is based in the other Washington, Washington DC, and the 135-mile

No country loves fried dough more than the United States. But is America split by a hidden doughnut divide? We investigate.

A new Washington state law allows 4-6 unit buildings across the city. Here's what that might look like.

Take leisurely walks and drives around the world while chilling to lofi music 🎶

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.