Nate Berg
The Guardian
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'We want a new mayor!': inside the Berlin city game for children
Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges → Read More
Six inexpensive (or even money-saving) things cities can do to become more sustainable now
Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment. → Read More
As the climate heats up, efforts to build more resilient communities go beyond infrastructure
Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment. → Read More
How the U.S. power grid is evolving to handle solar and wind
As renewable energy sources move mainstream, electricity generation and distribution systems are getting an extreme makeover. → Read More
How the U.S. power grid is evolving to handle solar and wind
Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment. → Read More
Print rediscovers a delightful new dimension
Later this year, DC Entertainment will stop regularly publishing Mad magazine, the humor publication founded in 1952. It means, among other things, the end of one of the more unique and beloved innovations in printed media. In nearly every issue since 1964, the inside back cover has featured the Mad Fold-In, a visual gag drawn […] → Read More
Drive-thru brothels: why cities are building 'sexual infrastructure'
From covered stalls for prostitution in Germany to community centres for sex workers in New Zealand, some cities now include sex work in their urban policy → Read More
Left to rot: the new global effort to preserve lost monuments
From a railway run by children in Ljubljana to brutalist monuments in the Balkans, the Nonument Group maps abandoned 20th-century architecture → Read More
The Accidental Planners
The Berlin activists who staged a protest at a vacant government building didn’t imagine they’d end up leading a €140 million redevelopment project. → Read More
With no upfront costs, this innovative financing tool makes energy efficiency affordable to all
By rolling upgrade costs into monthly bills, utilities are helping customers save energy and money at the same time → Read More
With no upfront costs, this innovative financing tool makes energy efficiency affordable to all
By rolling upgrade costs into monthly bills, utilities are helping customers save energy and money at the same time → Read More
From autobahn anomaly to motorway marvel: Berlin's roadside grandstands
An ambitious and unusual renovation project plans to transform former racetrack grandstands overlooking a motorway by 2021 → Read More
Why do we demolish buildings instead of deconstructing them for re-use?
Dismantling buildings piece by piece to preserve the reusable parts within keeps materials out of landfills and creates more jobs that demolition. → Read More
What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?
As solar power booms, businesses are exploring ways to ensure valuable components don’t end up in landfills. → Read More
Raze, rebuild, repeat: why Japan knocks down its houses after 30 years
Unlike in other countries, Japanese homes become valueless over time – but as the population shrinks, can its cities finally learn to slow down and refurb? → Read More
As cities grow more crammed and connected, how will we discourage the spread of disease?
Increasing urban density can be good for the environment because resources are more easily shared. But so are pathogens. What to do? → Read More
Will America’s infrastructure investment withstand future disasters?
Communities are increasingly keeping climate change in mind as they plan roads, sewers and energy grids. → Read More
Will America’s trillion-dollar investment in new infrastructure withstand tomorrow’s disasters?
Communities are increasingly keeping climate change in mind as they plan roads, sewers and energy grids for the future. → Read More
Is Elon Musk's plan for a road network beneath LA more than a pipe dream?
Cities attract wild ideas, from Qinhuangdao’s straddling bus to London’s bike lanes in the sky. As Musk’s Boring Company starts tunnelling, could his plans for underground roads and Hyperloop trains prove the doubters wrong? → Read More
Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse?
In California’s Central Valley emissions from oil refineries and agriculture make Bakersfield America’s most air-polluted city. Activists fear the Trump administration could undo small but steady improvements → Read More