Cities & Planning

The Seattle City Council is considering a bill to extend cafe street and outdoor dining permits until January 2023. The popular program arose during the pandemic to accommodate outdoor dining and s…

Projects addressing alternative power issues sometimes pit environmentalists vs. environmentalists.

Three civil engineering students’ award-winning design encourages a shift to water-based and renewable living in Bangladesh.

These visuals from TransLink illustrate what transportation could like in Metro Vancouver by 2050, showing key Transport 2050 actions.

With autonomous vehicles, people might take longer trips or send their cars out for ‘zero-occupancy trips’ to avoid parking, making our roads even more congested and polluted.

Posted on Friday 4 Feb 2022. 594 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

BY KATIE BABSON The emerging genre “cli-fi” refers to the science fiction of climate change. It describes a post-apocalyptic world where climate change was left unchecked and has resulted in societal breakdown. This genre encourages conversations, triggers discussions, and reframes eco-anxiety through its call to action and critical rebuttals to climate change denial. Stories have always inspired audiences to engage in empowering change and speak directly on an emotional and literary level throu

angi and neomam studios have reconstructed three unbuilt houses by american architect frank lloyd wright in 3D floor plans.

It may not get the same level of attention as the massive skyline-transforming towers popping up around Toronto, but a project of astounding scale ...

Unless you drive a new Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Land Rover or Lamborghini, you may not be aware that those automakers have embraced a new, easier and more precise way to navigate by voice. All five companies have incorporated or are incorporating what3words technology. To explain, what3words is a company that

Venturi is accelerating the development of electric vehicles and spearheading the vitally important transition towards sustainable mobility.

Climate solutions are never just climate solutions. Climate and social systems are profoundly connected, and those connections open up solutions that are often overlooked.

If the Legislature doesn't intervene, nonprofits and churches won't be able to host weekly farmers markets anymore without losing their tax-exempt status.

SUNY-ESF is the oldest and most distinguished institution in the United States that focuses on the study of the environment.

KulaBio’s Kula-N is a crop agnostic, sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer that helps all farmers improve crop yield and reduce environmental impact.

Drivers and pedestrians in the Netherlands faced injury risks similar to those in the U.S. in 1970. Since then, American streets have become far more dangerous. What happened?

Recently I posted on the importance of frequency mapping in network maps.  Most transit network maps, I argued, show all the transit lines but make it impossible to sort through them to figure out, quickly, which are likely to be useful.  The bottom line:  A map that makes all the lines look equally important is […]

Public transport maps are easy to take for granted but surprisingly difficult to master; conveying a mass of data in one simple design is no easy task. Veteran graphic designer and transit map enthusiast Cameron Booth runs through the dos and don'ts of effective map design.

One thing I often get asked regarding my transit diagrams is how I go about actually creating them. Originally, I just jumped right in and pushed things around on a page in Illustrator until it loo…