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Building the Parks of the Future

Why parks and recreation agencies are collaborating with community groups to create better green spaces

By Alison Harford August 11, 2024

In this story: local parks, state parks, urban planning, urban living, green building

Seattle city skyline with space needle viewed from Kerry Park, Seattle, Washington. | Photo by totororo/Getty Images

Ash Trees Are Dying Everywhere. This Is Why.

A bug is going to make your summers hotter

By Ethan Freedman June 23, 2024

In this story: climate change, urban planning, land use and planning, federal climate policy

This close up shot shows a number of Emerald Ash Borers that have fallen from an Ash tree, several days after it was injected with a pesticide into its trunk. | Photo by ziggy1/iStock

A Billionaire-Backed City Promises to Be a Green Urban Paradise

But it may not be what it appears

Text and photographs by Claire Greenburger June 4, 2024

In this story: urban planning, urban living, sustainability, 100 percent clean energy

The Heavy Price of Next-Day Delivery

Tacoma approves a giant new “fulfillment center” complex despite impacts on water, climate, and community

By Ian Morse February 12, 2024

In this story: urban planning, sustainability

How to Garden for the Coming Disasters

Growing equity, plus carrots, peas, and cucumbers

By Kea Krause September 11, 2022

In this story: community garden, urban planning

Four people use tools to work in a small, green garden

So You Want to Be an Architect?

First, go to a planning commission meeting

By Heather Smith September 9, 2021

In this story: architecture, urban planning, education, cool schools, climate change

Indigo-colored engineering drawning with two nicely sharpened pencils and a compass

Love Your Lawn? Let It Grow.

And grow and grow and grow

By Ashia Ajani February 22, 2020

In this story: science, urban planning, politics, bees, pollinators

Field of dandelions with big puffy seed heads all ready to explode

The Revolution in St. James

A community in Louisiana refuses to be zoned out of existence

By Meghan Holmes October 10, 2019

In this story: politics, oil, urban planning, dirty energy

Chicago Commits to 100 Percent Clean Energy

It’s the largest city in the United States to do so

By Mukta Patil April 10, 2019

In this story: ready for 100, climate change, renewable energy, urban planning

City Plans for Urban Density Should Address Affordable Housing

Consumption patterns of more-affluent people may offset carbon savings

By Jason Daley April 4, 2019

In this story: urban planning

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