America’s Most Boring Association Is Fighting the Planet
Outside every front door, life reigns. The air teems with pollen and spores. Bacteria the weight of a cow multiplies underneath a half-acre of soil. Studies in North Carolina and…
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Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City
Carla Francome campaigns for better cycling routes in Haringey, North London, where she moved a few years ago in search of a community—“an area where I could make friends that would go to…
Citizen Scientists Show Light Pollution Erases Stars From the Sky
Years ago, Christopher Kyba was skeptical about astronomy data collected by citizen scientists—after all, it relies on people making naked-eye assessments of the night sky. But when a…
US Cities Are Falling Out of Love With the Parking Lot
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.They are gray and rectangular, and if you laid all 2 billion of them together they would cover an…
Sorry, GDP. There Are Other Ways to Measure a Nation’s Worth
On June 3, 2022, as United Nations members gathered to celebrate the 50th World Environment Day, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was time to eschew using gross domestic product as…
Cities Need to Realize the Value of Emotional Design
When was the last time you walked down a street with new buildings and felt anything positive? Or anything at all? Modern buildings have become boring—flat, plain, shiny, rectangular,…
Eccentric art flourishes along outskirts of Buenos Aires
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA - Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Why build a rooftop water tank in the shape of a Teletubby? Or go to the effort…
The Pandemic Bike Boom Survives—in Cities That Stepped Up
In 18 years working in bicycles, Eric Bjorling had never seen anything like April 2020. With no end to the pandemic in sight, people were desperate for things to do. “They had time on their…
The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization’s Collapse
What creates a little bit of frustration is that in the scientific domain, there was not enough controversy, because somehow the book was discarded by many. Not by everybody. By many, it was…
Transport Apps Promised to Eliminate Friction. But at What Cost?
In the vision of the “frictionless” city that is held by many in tech, where virtually every city service, human interaction, and consumer experience is to be mediated by an app or digital…