Cities & Planning

In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their local government. They were wearing yellow vests and chanting slogans about the municipality’s new traffic policies. But most notably, many of them were vocally angry about a new urban planning concept — the “15 Minute City.”This development baffled

By Stephen H. Graham

// That's the story we're being sold. But not all electric transport is created equal. Here are the facts: globally, transportation is the second-largest contributor to emissions, after energy and heat production. But as energy production is getting greener, thanks to the rather startling progress being made in the spread of

Solar is surging, but so is humanity’s energy appetite. We need better models.

It’s one of those things everyone’s heard of, but few truly understand. It sits quietly in the corner of the bathroom (or as an attachment to the toilet itself), radiating mystery and a slight sense of intimidation. Ask someone about it, and you’ll usually get a shrug or a vague explanation that tra

Fossil fuels can be a bit fussy to access, and geopolitics tends to make prices volatile. Burning them also takes carbon out of the ground and puts it into the atmosphere, with undesirable climate …

Scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.

Hey what are you doing, let’s talk about cranberries! Surely you know, the cranberry is the Official Berry of my wonderful Commonwealth. The tart berry is one of only a few native North American fruits, like the pawpaw. The previous sentence has a l

Community News For All of Seattle's Capitol Hill

Seattle has 150+ years of history. In this guide, we’re diving into the city’s oldest streets and how they got their names.

Musings on Seattle’s streets, their names, and more besides.

12th Ave Regraded, 1920 with pieces of 2012 (Images: Rob Ketcherside)Righteous indignation has a long history in Seattle. More than 100 years ago, the Eleventh Avenue Improvement Club got pissed of…

This is the start of a history of 953 E Union, that rundown building at Union and Broadway Court destined for demolition. It is easy to miss that old house. Its walls, roof, doors, a…

Editors note: This is our final entry in our theme month on The Latinx City. You can see all other entries for the theme month here. Additionally, readers interested in more on Miami can see other …

Last Tuesday, a frontal cyclone rapidly deepened over the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 km to the west of Seattle. The storm was a “triple bomb”, meaning it reached around triple the 24 hPa…

No, despite being the Babylon of the post-information society, San Francisco is not the top digital city in America, according to a study that is subjective in nature but telling nevertheless. Chic…

The futurist design movement that divided critics and and swept the nation with space age coffee shops

Several of the signs were concentrated along 28th Street, a busy north-south thoroughfare that the city has identified as being particularly dangerous.

Researchers found no difference in the diversity of species in urban meadows compared with those in rural settings

I've drooled over Makita's battery-powered wheelbarrows, which would make yardwork and homesteading far easier. But they run about $5,000, and they're Japanese-market only. Another Japanese company, CuboRex, designed this E-Cat. It's a retrofittable electric wheel that can be added to any wheelbarrow. However, it costs $1,261.

Tax increment financing (TIF) is a public financing method that is used as a subsidy for redevelopment, infrastructure, and other community-improvement projects in many countries, including the United States. The original intent of a TIF program is to stimulate private investment in a blighted area that has been designated to be in need of economic revitalization. Similar or related value capture strategies are used around the world.

Almost 2.5 kilometres of Mont-Royal Ave. has been blocked off to traffic, with art installations and greenery creating a daily festival, packed with crowds almost around the clock

# The Seattle City Council again voted against completing the Center City Streetcar. But it remains a prudent investment, vastly improving Seattle Streetcar network and walkability on First Avenue.

# In shift away from office and toward housing growth, Downtown Bellevue's development pipeline has seen nearly 4,000 additional homes proposed and more than two million square feet of office space abandoned in just the last couple of years. Once built, the pipeline of 14,000 homes would more than double the population of downtown.

# New renderings, created by Neiman Taber Architects, present a vision for voters of what publicly-funded social housing would look like in Seattle. A dedicated funding source for social housing is on the ballot in February via Prop 1A.

We can fix our staggering car fatality crisis. Start with these roads.

By David Helps Jorge Cruz Cortes was still a teenager when the Los Angeles Police Department arrested him for selling household goods without a license in 1989. The eighteen-year-old from Oaxaca, M…