Cities & Planning

Some residents are experiencing a new kind of distress in response to flooding, air pollution and other ecological events linked to climate change.

If your office is where you live now, would you live in your old office?

One of the myriad issues with hydrogen as a clean energy source is infrastructure, as it's very expensive to move around and store an extremely explosive gas..

In 1970, a violent storm uncovered a Makah village that was buried by a mudslide more than 300 years earlier. A newly re-opened museum tells the fascinating story of the ancient site.

I dug crime databases in 16 European countries and came to some surprising conclusions.

The economic power of many U.S. metros is equivalent to other nations around the globe. Source: smartcitiesdive.com Perhaps because I’m fr...

The first ten years of this century Dutch public libraries moved their focus from collections to connections. Building makerspaces within libraries has been a central part of this change.

Big Clive, has a YouTube channel where he opens up electronic products (often dodgy ones that make fraudulent health claims) and explains what makes them work (or don’t work). In this video, …

Great, detailed story on Japan’s effort to revitalize its rail network in the mid-20th Century, from S.Y. Lee’s Substack. It’s a great example of how crucial it is for governments…

“New Olympia was, at best, half-birthed.”

A managed retreat researchers responds to Brenda Cooper’s “Out of Ash.”

Smithsonian shares how mapping technology cuts through the canopy to identify ruins in the Amazon. So the team conducted airborne lidar mapping of six different areas, ranging in size from about 4 …

In Star Wars, the Skywalker family are introduced as "moisture farmers." On their desert planet, they somehow pull water out of the sky using towering metal structures, which sounds more sci-fi than placing buckets under in-window air conditioners. Researchers at UT Austin have developed a material that can actually

It opens its "petals" and follows the sun, like a sunflower

A single kilogram of this gel, made from cellulose and a food additive called konjac gum, can pull 3.4 gallons of drinking water daily from the driest desert air, say Researchers at the University …

Barcelona set up 163 climate shelters to help residents stay cool in the scorching summer months.

Contractors on the project include Matt Mead of U.S.-based hempcrete construction firm Hempitecture and Ross Grier, Bellingham Bay Builders. The hemp hurd supply for the project was provided from Dun Agro, Holland while Wolf Jordan & Associates, Belgium, is supplying additive for the hempcrete mix.

Hempcrete / Hemp+lime is a biocomposite thermal mass wall system that lends to high performing, energy efficient, vapor permeable, breathable homes. If you're seeking the most sustainable thermal envelope building solution, whether you're a contractor or architect, look no further than hempcrete.

Hempcrete for USA home builders and renovators.

Streets comprise more than 80% of public space in cities, but they often fail to provide their surrounding communities with a space where people can safely walk, bicycle, drive, take transit…

Each spring, the Ashikaga Flower Park in Tochigi, Japan, is flooded with bright, blossoming canopies of purple flowers. The area is home to more than 350 wisterias, including one monumental specimen that's at least 150 years old, and hosts an annual festival that illuminates the lengthy tendrils aga

Photographer Kien Lam has been traveling the globe for over a decade. He spent 343 days before the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 shooting this spectacular

Over 3 years, I took my drone on most of my travels to add aerial footage to my short films. With the current state of the world and my travels on hold for the foreseeable…

Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.

Your home's past events, current risks, and future projections based on peer-reviewed research from the world’s leading flood, fire, and climate modelers.