Cities & Planning

The homepage of artist Noritaka Minami

An icon of Japanese Metabolism, the Nakagin Capsule Tower stood in the Ginza neighborhood of Tokyo from 1972 until it was demolished earlier this year. Conceived by the famed designer Kisho Kurokawa, the building featured two central concrete towers, with 140 individual pods slotted into the main st

Online retailing delivers a public health problem

Harvard professor describes technology as ‘a new battery paradigm’ for electric vehicles

A new report says Indigenous communities face an alarming trend in access to clean water.

Neither bicycle nor motorbike, the two-wheeler’s future demands an identity of its own.

This visualization lets you divide the US into 1,2,3,4,5,8 and 10 different segments with equal population and across different geographic dimensions.

Because the majority of the region's trees are in residential neighborhoods, responsibility for maintaining canopy coverage is shifting to homeowners.

[Image: “Solomon’s Pools & ancient aqueducts…,” via Library of Congress.] There’s a beautiful description over at New Scientist of a hypothetical new form of computing device, a “liquid crystal computer” in which calculations would move “like ripples through the liquid.” According to researchers Žiga Kos and Jörn Dunkel, calculations would be performed by—and registered as—crystal … Continue reading "Numbers Pool"

I recently wrote a post describing the data ecosystem for non-domestic energy consumption data in the UK. In that post I summarised my current understanding of the different actors involved in that…

In the Delaware River and other waterways across the US, conservationists are restoring aquatic vegetation and beds of bivalves to fight pollution.

Posted on Friday 26 Aug 2022. 899 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

The Natural Areas program is critical for preserving native biodiversity in the state, but climate change is challenging its future.

Turbulent's hydroelectric turbines bring clean, reliable and affordable renewable energy to thousands of remote locations where hydropower was never viable before.

Shipping coffee via sailboat is less pricey and more efficient than container ships because of high oil prices and port congestion, Café William said.

Industrial Design Project by: Konstantin Wolf Lea Haats Erik Mantz-Hansen 2021 Muthesius University Kiel, Germany What is ABACUS? ABACUS is a public transportation…

Thursday morning I saw two men trying to rescue a beached Mercedes at the edge of town. They were on a sandbar in the Colorado, below the overpass that connects north Austin with the airport. You couldn’t tell how the car had gotten there, at least not from the vantage I had up there on the old bridge that has been repurposed for pedestrian and bicycle use. The only visible tracks were of the backhoe that had driven out there shortly before I showed up, and was now poking around in the sand trying to figure out a viable extraction strategy. You also couldn’t tell if one of the guys was the owner of the car, trying to mitigate the damages of a wild Wednesday night, or if they were just an enterprising pair practicing the long Texas tradition of taking whatever bounty nature offers, by whatever means available.

There are at least half a dozen major Western water pipeline projects under consideration, ranging from ambitious to outlandish.

An atlas moth has been discovered in Bellevue, WA and officials are seeking reports of additional sightings of the moth.

Just as their understanding becomes more clear, it’s starting to disappear.

Some 107 million Americans will experience heat index temperatures above 125 degrees F by 2053, according to a new report.

It’s open season for a shift in wildlife management.

Mimicking the peaks of the surrounding conifers, an A-frame house in Sikhall, Vänersborg, Sweden is designed for entirely self-sufficient living. The largely wood and glass construction is the project of Naturvillan, a Swedish architecture firm focusing on building homes with minimal impacts on the

The country is already seeing the impacts of hotter, more widespread heat waves.

Only a relatively small fraction of gas actually, you know, moves your car around. The rest is wasted.