Cities & Planning

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…

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.