People Love Electric Vehicles! Now Comes the Hard Part
[ad_1] In fact, the federal government has required that states applying for public charger money submit plans detailing how they’ll support a new workforce to service them. “One of the…
US Cities Are Falling Out of Love With the Parking Lot
[ad_1] 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…
Cities Need to Realize the Value of Emotional Design
[ad_1] 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,…
Airbnb Is Running Riot in Small-Town America
[ad_1] Kaitlin had been living in the Village of Oak Creek for over two years when she received the notice. It was June 2022 and her landlord had decided to…
Lyft Aspired to Kill Car Ownership. Now It Aims to Profit From It
[ad_1] Lyft customers know it as the bright-pink app to tap when they need a car ride or to rent a bike or scooter. Today the company announced it wants…
Europe’s Cities Are Getting More Crowded—That’s a Good Thing
[ad_1] Cities are unpredictable places. Not just in the hustle and bustle of dusty street corners, but across the sweep of time itself. Take Leipzig for example. Once the fifth…
The Pandemic Bike Boom Survives—in Cities That Stepped Up
[ad_1] 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…
Algorithms Quietly Run the City of Washington, DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
[ad_1] Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use…
Opendoor’s iBuyer Model Is a Canary in the Economic Coal Mine
[ad_1] And right now, Opendoor’s behavior, driven by the data it sees, augurs bad tidings ahead. “Right now, they’re trying to sell as much of their inventory as fast as…
US Cities Are Recycling Trees and Poop to Make Compost
[ad_1] And tree waste isn’t the only unwanted product that can be used to make this compost. Cities could also nourish their trees with a little assistance from their human…
It’s Time to Reframe the Story of Climate Inequity
[ad_1] In 2011, DTE Energy Company removed 1,200 streetlights from the city of Highland Park, Michigan. A Black working-class suburb of Detroit that was once a boom town for the…
It’s Time for Cities to Ditch Delivery Trucks—for Cargo Bikes
[ad_1] And when you factor in a van’s price, the cost of fuel, insurance, and depreciation, plus parking fines and congestion charges, the cost-effectiveness calculation swings even further in cargo…
How to Design the Perfect Queue, According to Crowd Science
[ad_1] “There’s a significant amount of math and formulas that has been written about this over the years,” says Still, “but that doesn’t take into account psychology.” There are both…
Rurbanization: It’s Time to Make Cities More Rural
[ad_1] Those calculations focus primarily on the emissions from heavy machinery and long-distance trucking and shipping. But Elizabeth Sawin, founder and director of the Multisolving Institute, which promotes interventions that…
GM President Mark Reuss on the Automobile’s Electric, Autonomous Future
[ad_1] It’s a heady time to be a car executive. Lawmakers worldwide are pushing the auto industry to electrify, and fast. US companies are under pressure to do that without…
Here’s What Happens When Countries Use Bikes to Fight Emissions
[ad_1] Transportation produces about a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and passenger vehicles account for over half that figure. As such, nearly every plan for future emissions cuts…
What Twitter’s Move to Shutter Offices Signals for Big Tech
[ad_1] Twitter executives can currently travel the world by globe-trotting among the company’s 38 offices, from San Francisco, Sydney, and Seoul to New Delhi, London, and Dublin. But not for…
The Case for Making Public Transit Free Everywhere
[ad_1] But the rush for free or heavily-discounted tickets can have the opposite effect. In Germany, the first long weekend of the 9-euro-a-month tickets led to overcrowding, service disruptions, and…
How to Prevent Another European Transport Meltdown
[ad_1] As if the cancellation of flights and trains due to strikes and staff shortages weren’t upsetting travelers enough this summer, the European heat wave arrived to exacerbate the travel…