Cities & Planning

Norwegian Roald Amundsen was perhaps the greatest star of the so-called 'golden age' of Arctic expedition — and he used Seattle as a base camp.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Southwest Florida still don't have electricity or water. But Babcock Ranch, north of Fort Myers, was designed and built to withstand the most powerful storms.

Environmental disruptions and technological advances have always influenced where and how people live. Early humans may have left Africa after rapid fluctuations in rainfall destroyed their food supply, and the opening up of the American Southwest occurred roughly in parallel with improvements in air-conditioning technology. In the decades ahead, a warming planet and a booming population will again alter where we live and how we construct our homes.

West Burton A will be the site of the prototype fusion energy power plant, the government announces.

An unclosed chapter of Japanese American incarceration is preserved in the basement of a Chinatown-International District hotel.

Hollywood Park Racetrack is gone. In its place is SoFi Stadium, the 77,000-seat home of Los Angeles’ two pro football teams and much else, including the 6,000-seat YouTube Theater. There&#821…

Our 20 Favorite Coffee Shops in Seattle - Boon Boona, Hood Famous, and More

Traffic signal lights in British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and other parts of Canada feature a flashing green traffic light to indicate it as a “pedestrian-controlled” intersection; mean…

A Dublin startup is recycling the heat released by data centers and using it to provide heating inside homes. Can the impact be more than a drop in the bucket?

New maps reveal a picture of daily exposure to wildfire smoke in better geographic detail than ever before.

Bee bus stops first appeared in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Now the UK is planning for more than 1,000 and there is growing interest across Europe and in Canada and Australia

With water a precious commodity in California, residents are turning to native plants – saving money without sacrificing beauty

If you live in Spokane, you know about its waste-to-energy facility, which burns up to 800 tons of solid waste a day and can generate 22 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 13,000 homes.

The home page of the ultimate manhole covers site - The city has a lot of covers - where you can find manhole covers from different countries in different shapes and categories: sewerage, water, communication and more.

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…