Cities & Planning

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.

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Turning your perfectly unnatural (yet impressively green!) lawn into an imperfectly wild(ish) piece of land requires a little time and energy at first. And then...a lot less mowing.

In France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed.

Healdsburg's reclamation facility recycles 350 million gallons of effluent each year.

Learn more about the ambitious proposal to build new high-speed transit connected hub-cities at the upcoming October 9th event. Skyrocketing housing costs that displace established residents. Ever …

The City of Bothell is poised to adopt an update to its citywide bike plan, providing itself a literal road map for the city of just under 50,000 people to be able to revamp its city streets to bec…

Started in the labs at MIT, Form Energy is the company that improved a 140-year-old battery technology to revolutionize energy storage. Its iron-air batt...

One-in-five new cars sold in California in 2022 was a zero-emission vehicle, the state said Friday, as the largest car market in the United States charges towards its goal of electrifying its fleet.

California officials insist that the grid can provide enough electricity. But that’s based on a lot of assumptions that may not be realistic.

A study from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) proposes that decommissioned mines could be repurposed to operate gravity batteries. Converting old mines could provide...

On the whole, 2022 was not a bad year for intercity passenger rail service in the northwest. In March, the Washington State Legislature allocated a total of $154 million USD ($209 million CAD) “for…

Woodinville's Ruby Bridges Elementary is one of several dozen Washington schools working to better integrate special education students with their peers.