Cities & Planning

The French Alpine town was offered a quirky alternative and turned it down. Even in the United States, there was a point in the early 20th Century where most American cities and small towns had tra…

Creating a task force to study progressive taxes is a great idea! But we don't have to wait for their recommendations to act, nor should we.

Although voters like public services, they detest paying taxes. To cover the resulting budget deficits, we borrow hundreds of billions of dollars each year from other countries, loans that must be repaid in full with interest. Deficits also erode savings,...

The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.

Tacoma has a major extension of Sound Transit’s T Line streetcar to look forward to over the coming year: the Hilltop Tacoma Link Extension (HTLE). But this past year saw the loss of a small yet me…

These community centers, powered by green energy, provide resources during extreme weather and double as gathering spaces during calmer times.

By implementing priority budgeting, Pittsburgh put its existing resources to work for climate.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes created a community-led climate plan to manage and protect their land.

A new study highlights the incentive for food producers to repurpose food waste – by turning it into useful chemicals and sustainable fuels

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Tripling the global output of lithium by 2050 just for the U.S. would ensure horrifying environmental costs.

Senator William Soules has filed SB 77, which states that all new homes must have an EV plug, and requires one watt of solar per square foot of heated home space.

Researchers at the University of I llinois Urbana-Champaign have successfully demonstrated efficient geothermal heat storage while simultaneously repurposing an abandoned oil and gas well.

A new way of storing renewable energy is providing clean heat through the long Nordic nights.

With extra insulation and lots of sun, a passive house in the town of Hope is able to maintain an indoor temperature of around 70 degrees without the use of a furnace.

The Washington Traffic Safety Commission held a difficult conversation last week around its longstanding goal of ending fatalities and serious injuries in traffic by the year 2030: whether that goa…

On Thursday, Urban Institute released a new report focused on the Seattle metropolitan region that is sure to be of interest to urbanists and housing advocates. The Urbanist published a preview of …

“This is the year for bold progress to make sure everyone has a home,” Sen. Marko Liias (D – Edmonds) said in a tweet shortly after dropping a bill aimed at encouraging denser hou…

The Dutch capital spent $65 million to create a parking structure that can store 7,000 bicycles in a submerged facility at the city’s central train station.

Editor’s note: In anticipation of the Urban History Association’s 2023 conference being held in Pittsburgh from October 26 – October 29, The Metropole is making the Steel City its Metropolis of the…

Participate in the online survey and influence decades of future Amtrak Cascades passenger rail service. Work has begun on the first phase of the Amtrak Cascades Service Development Plan (SDP), whi…

Posted on Tuesday 24 Jan 2023. 830 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

The 2020s are not the 1990s.

The so-called lost decade has now stretched to three. What went wrong, asks Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.