Cities & Planning

A new tool helps show how much risk your house or apartment—or a house you might want to buy—faces from wildfires.

Using annotated satellite imagery, historical redlining maps, and archival photos, Segregation by Design highlights 180 American cities decimated by racist planning.

It’s tempting to draw lines on a map, but we can’t forget that cities should be designed for the people who live there

A team from Italy has built the world's first - and only - underwater greenhouse, Nemo's Garden, which has already grown more than 100 different plants.

Cyberpunk 2077 (reviewed at Boing Boing) was, all told, a mammoth hit and ultimately a polished game. A good game, too, with solid FPS action and an amazing, sprawling, magnificent futuristic city …

Why doesn’t every big box store have rooftop solar? | Grist The amount of space available on the rooftops of Walmarts, Targets, Home Depots, Costcos, and other large stores and shopping malls in the...

Downtown Toronto has a dense core of tall, glassy buildings along the waterfront of Lake Ontario. Outside of that, lots short single family homes sprawl out in every direction. Residents looking for something in between an expensive house and a condo in a tall, generic tower struggle to find places to live. There just aren’t

Could commercially perennial crops like Kernza be regenerative agriculture's holy grail?

How energy disclosure could help lower renters' utility bills and tackle climate change.

The state hopes to secure up to $2 billion in federal funding to produce hydrogen fuel as a substitute for petroleum-based gasoline.

Harper's Magazine, the oldest general-interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation, through long-form narrative journalism and essays, and such celebrated features as the iconic Harper's Index.

Recently, I came across a paper by the great historian, and philosopher of technology, Lewis Mumford, titled ‘Authoritarian and Democratic Technics’ (ADT). Mumford, who was an expert on cities and …

Our cities were designed to accommodate cars and the needs of men. It is time to build better ones. Here is how.

human maximalism

“What's that? Oh, just a forest inside a sinkhole in China.”

The 'Under Water Entertainment Platform'is a battery-powered 115 foot submarine that can dive to 650 feet. It is intended for the most 'prestigious and memorable events on the planet.'

There is so much intelligence on this planet other than ours. Realising that will be key to adapting to climate breakdown, says writer and artist James Bridle

Beginning Monday outside Chiloquin, 20 trainees will learn the role of fire in managing the landscape.

How do you visualize every human that has ever lived in the last 2 million years? Max Roser with Our World in Data had the idea to turn us all into grains of sand within an hourglass, and to equate the passing of people to the passing of time. The Humanity Today and Humanity’s Past infographic h

The greatest mode of transportation is the funicular, which is a special kind of train pulled by a cable that runs up steep slopes. But trains are great even when they’re not going up treacherous terrain. And in that spirit: here are some of the most ambitious, fascinating, and downright crazy trains that the world

The "most overlooked climate solution" can now work in freezing temperatures.

Most new large apartment and commercial buildings must install heat pumps under the state's new energy code.

What grows here changes everything.

This is a reblog/translation of a post by Héctor García… During the 80s in the United States, Japan was started to be seen as the

400 years after the Spanish banned it, amaranth is making a comeback in Mexico as a high-nutrition staple that's also resistant to climate change.

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