Topic: urban planning

School Bus (Getty Images/shaunl)

Electric school buses save lives, money

Rae Hodge
Microchip (Getty Images/Narumon Bowonkitwanchai)

Microchip gold rush in Oregon

Max Graham - Grist
People walk along The High Line above the Meatpacking District on June 9, 2017 in New York City. With a full schedule of conventions and major sporting events taking place around the island of Manhattan each week, millions of global visitors will converge on New York City this year. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images (George Rose/Getty Images)

Green cities, gentrified cities?

Laura Kiesel
USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

Our misguided obsession with traffic

Brian Ladd - Undark
Spaceship Earth in Epcot construction at Disney World, 1996 (Chip HIRES/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Disney's vision for a new kind of city

Alex Krieger - The Conversation
The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

Dangerous heat exposure has tripled

Cascade Tuholske, Chris Funk, Kathryn Grace - The Conversation
(Getty/oatawa)

The benefits of telecommuting

Fynnwin Prager, Mohja Rhoads - The Conversation
Street in Allentown residential district, Pennsylvania, USA (Getty Images/iStock)

The "urban renewal" lie

Anthony DiMaggio
A super slim skyscraper at 432 Park Avenue competes with the Empire State building as it juts above the Manhattan skyline as seen from the One World Observatory, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, in New York. Among the structures going up in the construction boom of recent years, there are a few that are reshaping the look of the skyline and doing it with footprints that take up a fraction of the space at ground level. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) (AP)

Apples campus in Austin, Texas (Getty/Suzanne Cordeiro)

Big Tech's tendrils spread across Austin

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Can a tech company build a city?

Sarah Barns - The Conversation
(Getty/Francois Xavier Marit)

How West Africa taught me architecture

Carl Anthony
(<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-982925p1.html?cr=00&pl=edit-00">John Pesina</a> / <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/?cr=00&pl=edit-00">Shutterstock.com</a>)

Gentrification? Bring it

Jonathan Wynn, Andrew Deener - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

How many big storms can coasts endure?

Reynard Loki - Alternet
An ice skaters on nature skate near a mill in the Ryptsjerksterpolder in Tietjerk, on December 5, 2016. / AFP / ANP / Catrinus van der Veen / Netherlands OUT (Photo credit should read CATRINUS VAN DER VEEN/AFP/Getty Images) (Afp/getty Images)

The U.S. should go Dutch

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Hurricane Harvey over Texas seen from the International Space Station (AP/Randy Bresnik)

Overdevelopment in Houston

Mary Mazzoni - Alternet
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-564979p1.html'>homydesign</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

L.A. dumps the dump

Dean Kuipers - Capital & Main
(AP/ Kevork Djansezian/The Boring Company/Salon)

Elon Musk's tunnel vision

Angelo Young
Cite, New Mexico (Perkins+Will)

Building a better 'burb

Diane Stopyra
(Ditty_about_summer/Shutterstock)

America's traffic nightmare

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-306199p1.html'>trekandshoot</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The incredible shrinking city

Henry Grabar
Singapore (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-118804p1.html'>beboy</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The utopian police state

Henry Grabar
Manhattan, March 1968. (AP)

The disappearance of NYC

Henry Grabar
(Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Henry Grabar
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