Topic: Urban Planning

Former Nigerian Capital Gets Eco-City

A proposed energy-efficient satellite village uses the lagoon for cooling in Lagos, Africa's second largest city. READ»

River Rescue Plan Wins Bragging Rights--and $300,000

A plan to revive the river that runs through Fez, Morocco beat out nearly 5,000 competing proposals, to win top honors in the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction, and a cool $300,000. The winner, Bureau E.A.S.T, is an ...READ»

Nortel Switches Cities

What makes a great city? How to transform the vast, empty factory - an anonymous-looking site formerly used for manufacturing telephone switches - into an attractive office space?READ»

What's Wrong With Our Cities? A Two-Minute Video Explains

The Congress for New Urbanism recently held a competition to explain just what the connection is between urban planning and the environment--and if you're fuzzy on the issue, you need to watch the winning video, created by John ...READ»

Rise of the Aerotropolis

As competition shrinks the globe, the world is building giant airport-cities. They look monstrous to American eyes--and that could be a problem. READ»

Bikes for the Masses: An Experiment in Sustainable Transportation

As New York politicos attempt to follow London's lead and pass a bill that would charge a congestion toll for motorists who enter the busiest parts of Manhattan, two urban design organizations let their imaginations drift to a ...READ»

Architects Envision "Algae Pontoon" Parks Linking Brooklyn, Manhattan, Governors Island

The winning proposal in UCLA's WPA 2.0 competition wants to transform our waterfronts into carbon-siphoning wetlands.READ»

Better Buses Through Psychology

Suppport for mass transit is growing, as more people learn about the perilous costs of our carbon habit. Urban planners typically respond with a built-it-and-they-will-come attitude: Getting more people on buses, for example, is just ...READ»

How to Revive an Ailing City Center: Ban Cars, Build Public Spaces

The Dutch have a way with urban planning, as the new Roosendaal Pavilion proves.READ»

Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade

Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers, urban planners, and green-tech entrepreneurs in business for the next decade. This guide to sustainability focused career paths will help solar-charge your work life.READ»

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Best of TreeHugger: Google Cuts the Cost of Solar, the World's Next Suez Canal, and Why CEOs Support Climate Action

Google seeks to seriously cut the cost of solar with new technology, global warming has opening a new shipping channel that could change the world's trade routes, and more corporate executives are supporting climate action than ever before.READ»

Is This Your Beautiful House?

Back in the 1960s, the suburbs were a place to escape from -- a plastic trap. Now the generation that fled "little boxes made of ticky-tacky" has its own suburban reality -- and its own question: Is this the future that we want to live in?READ»

10 Hot Jobs for 2007

What are the hottest jobs for 2007? Fast Company spoke with trend experts to compile a list of the top 10 professions that will be in high demand in 2007.READ»

Suburbia R.I.P.

Does the downturn spell the beginning of the end for suburbia? Some experts say yesterday's cul-de-sac is tomorrow's ghost town.READ»

A Second Act for Second Life, as an Urban Planning Tool

Second Life's passe right? Maybe not. Two MacArthur-grant geniuses use it to help average citizens design their own communities.READ»

Here's How We Can Reverse Suburban Blight

A competition to reinvent the suburbs announces 20 finalist entries.READ»