The British Columbia city is working to reduce solid waste by half, cut residents' carbon footprints by a third, and greatly boost transit, walking, and biking.
A careful analysis of Schooner Bay in the Bahamas shows the financial and other benefits of taking a slower, culturally attuned, lower-debt approach to development.
New Geography, the pre-eminent digital defender of automobile-oriented US policy, argues that suburbs are superior to walkable urban neighborhoods in environmental performance.
Small-scale, incremental interventions in cities will be explored in the first Tactical Urbanism Salon, scheduled for this Saturday in Long Island City, Queens.
Masdar, the futuristic urban development in Abu Dhabi, is in the wrong place and largely dependent on conventional transportation, but it's impressive nonetheless.
A proposed megamall and Ferris wheel at the mouth of the Don River are lambasted in a protest from 147 leading aademics, urban designers, and architects.
The Economist's global livability survey, in a decision mocked in British Columbia, has shifted Vancouvver to third place, behind Melbourne and Vienna.
A coalition of government officials, carmakers, academics, and local utilities is trying to integrate all forms of electric transportation into Oregon's largest city.
Living with passive air and choosing cycling during this unusually warm summer may sound like hardcore Greenie behavior, but it’s been particularly satisfying.
The Dutch government has experimented with a system that would impose a fee for each car trip, based on miles driven, fuel efficiency, time of day, and route taken.
New Geography, the pre-eminent digital defender of automobile-oriented US policy, argues that suburbs are superior to walkable urban neighborhoods in environmental performance.
The Office of Sustainable Development in Portland, Oregon, has decided that one of the best ways to cut down on greenhouse-gas emissions is by fostering what it calls the “20-minute neighborhood.”
