Cities & Planning

From Seattle to Baltimore, cities are recycling felled urban trees into furniture, construction projects and guitars.

The Downtown Seattle Association and new SDOT head are seeking ways to jumpstart the shelved Center City Streetcar project, such as a Cultural Connector program. Seattle’s Center City streetc…

The tech giant’s development concept is rapidly growing Kirkland’s most ambitious proposal To close out The Urbanist’s series on Kirkland’s recent and ongoing developments, …

One of the world’s first upcycled towers shows how reusing the bones of a building can be an environmentally and economically viable solution for the world’s aging towers.

In this very entertaining and informative video essay, Adam Kovacs details why Elon Musk's futuristic transportation ideas like

Where and how you live shapes your household’s contribution to climate change. Explore differences across the nation.

And they are NOT benevolent

Cake, a company known for making electric bikes, just announced The Kibb is an all-electric ATV. “The modular body of the Kibb will have different attachment points to allow for compatibility…

Jesse Wig, Adam Colucci, and Dan Spanovich purchased an abandoned high school for $100,000 and spent over $2 million to turn it into an apartment building.

In the pandemic, Spencer Scott and Nick Schwanz started Solar Punk Farms, a queer-run agricultural community space designed to explore and celebrate regenerative models of living.

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How healthy ecosystems and aquifers can moderate extreme rainfall and drought

Researchers in China have now made a device that can directly split seawater to make hydrogen fuel. This could solve the fuel cell water sourcing problem, in a world where clean water is a precious commodity to which a third of the world lacks easy access.

(Leer en español aquí.)   Elite projection is the belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find convenient or attractive is good for the society as a whole.  Once you learn to recognize this simple mistake, you see it everywhere.  It is perhaps the single most comprehensive barrier to prosperous, just, and […]

By Robert Gioielli Teaching the history of racism in America can be a difficult thing. Not because students deny it, but because it is something that is so ubiquitous, so all encompassing, that man…

Scientists say "floatovoltaics" hold promise, especially on hydropower reservoirs — but the environmental impacts are still unclear.

Strange diseases are spreading in Blackfeet Country. Can canines track down the culprits?

In the face of climate change and persistent droughts, a growing number of people from Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico and elsewhere are adopting the traditional farming practice.

Early next year, a construction grant will be awarded and work will start on a $20 million overhaul of four east-west streets in Pioneer Square, kicking off one of the final independent projects as…

Having covered developments in transforming Totem Lake as well as the Downtown and Rose Hill corridor, what remains to tally up in Kirkland are the developments in smaller nodes of density. Juanita…

At the junction of SR 520 and Montlake Boulevard in Seattle, construction crews are busy at work laying the foundation for the Montlake lid, the first roof built over a freeway in Seattle since the…

The City’s Comp Plan is seriously flawed from the start. Seattle knows how to get serious when we need to, whether that’s building trillion dollar companies or signing up for one of the large…