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Climate

Four climate-saving trends for 2025

by John Lorinc

Climate solutions are maturing rapidly, from green urban design to large-scale grid storage. Here's what to watch in the year ahead.

Buildings

How a wave of developers turning office buildings into apartments could create more walkable cities

by John Weigand

Even though less than one third of older buildings in the U.S. can be profitably converted, architects and developers are quickly learning how

Summer 2024/Transportation

How this Danish industrial city attracted start-ups with two wheels

by Alex Robinson

Odense transformed itself into a tech hub, partly by embracing bikes. Could North American cities reinvent themselves in the same way?

Spring 2024/Transportation

Lessons on how (and how not) to build a bike-friendly city

by Alex Robinson

Cycling advocates in Washington, D.C. and Montreal have worked toward the same goal, but with starkly different results

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Climate

All is not lost: Four climate-saving trends for 2024

by John Lorinc

'Single-staircase radicals,' AI-boosted renewables and geothermal energy’s big break – John Lorinc’s predictions for the new year

Transportation

These solar bus stops could combat heat stroke in blistering heat wave

by Gaye Taylor

The “bioclimatic bus stops” in Spain will use solar panels and thermal sensors to lower temperatures inside the shelters by as much

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The 15-minute city is not an affront to freedom

by Alex Nurse, Alessia Calafiore and Richard J. Dunning

OPINION | How an innocuous urban planning concept to build a walkable 15-minute city has attracted the attention of conspiracy theorists

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