Cities & Planning

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.

Was there a soul leftover at the end of this, another nighttime trip on the E Line? I looked in my rear-view mirror. Yes, there was. There are canned announcements you can play to ask people to lea…

Small interventions on electric cars and plant-based meat could unlock rapid emissions cuts, say experts

Sound Transit has released further information about possible alignment and station changes for the Interbay and Ballard portions of the West Seattle Ballard Link Extensions. Following comments on …

Here are some great photos of conversation Pits, a popular feature of interior design from the midcentury period to the 1970s. A conversation pit is typically a lower-than-ground-level seating area…

The community-led Blue Bikes is showing how a nonprofit model can serve residents' needs.

Hip-Deep in the Thick Present #3. Solarpunk is sometimes claimed as a window on the future we could have if we were willing to make it happen. But as with …

Team FOAM have started pushing out more of the fragments I sent them a while back. Latest out of the pipe is a bit titled “The unbearable lightness of solarpunk”, which for old hands at…

Ordering information for the book Carfree Cities by J.H. Crawford.