May 2013
- In Post-Tsunami Japan, A Push To Rebuild Coast in Concrete
- What’s stopping him?
- Most UK species in decline
- Vacation
- European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue
- The Hidden Geography of America’s Surging Suicide Rate
- Segregation Is Bad for Everyone
- China’s bizarre architecture
- Lost in the Geometry of California’s Farms
- The Human Dimension of Thetford Forest
- The Life Story of The Oldest Tree on Earth
- Egypt’s Birthrate Rises as Population Control Policies Vanish
- What does an average human look like?
April 2013
- San Gabriel Valley, California
- AIA Top 10 Green Buildings
- Illegal Districts Dot New Delhi as City Swells
- Who Rules the Street in Cairo? The Residents Who Build It
- Happy Arbor Day
- When Algae on the Exterior Is a Good Thing
- An Architectural Reflection of George W. Bush
- Secrets of Cloud Formation, Revealed in the Amazon
- How the Decline of the Traditional Workplace Is Changing Our Cities
- The internet’s image problem
- Converting city buses into showers for the homeless
- Mahogany’s Last Stand
- Remembering Life in Arcosanti
- Personal space in major cities
- Where People Gamble Illegally in Chicago
- Why do trains stay on their tracks?
- One-third of U.S. rivers contaminated with ag runoff
- Lake Erie’s future?
- Algae Blooms Threaten Lake Erie
- Beck’s other subway map
- Subways of North America
- Study: Nuke Power Has Saved Millions of Lives. Media Yawns.
- Nuclear power may have saved nearly 2 million lives
- Why did 28,000 rivers in China suddenly disappear?
- L.A. synchronizes its stoplights
- Correlation, Speculation and the Periodicity of Environmental Journalism
- “Endling”
- A Slice of London So Exclusive Even the Owners Are Visitors
March 2013
- $230 billion
- Mystery (maybe) solved
- Mid-21st Century Modern
- The Suburban Idea
- Long Exposure Tree Landscapes
- What Shall We Conserve?
- What Will Human Cultures Be Like in 100 Years?
- From really bad to pretty bad
- Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK
- Data mining 101
- Is It Time to Move Past Urban Studies and Toward Urbanization Science?
- What is this strange structure in the Arizona desert?
- The Small-State Advantage in the United States Senate
- Personal politics and electricity use
- Vegetation Goes Vertical
- Torre Guinigi
- The End of Federal Transportation Funding as We Know It
- The Decline of the Private Car
- Patient Urbanism
- A map of traffic congestion by metropolitan area
- New Hampshire bill proposes aerial photography ban
- Why Are There So Many Sinkholes in Florida?
- A plow, now!
- Correlation of Population Density to Designated Urban Areas
- “An act of total cowardice”
- Going Blind: The Coming Satellite Crisis
- NOVA Next
- Life at different densities in the anthropocene
February 2013
- Charlie LeDuff on going home to Detroit
- Most remote permanent settlement on Earth
- World Wildlife Federation turns to drones in bid to tackle poaching
- Invisible Fences
- To Reduce Suicide Rates, New Focus Turns to Guns
- Near Earth Orbit for Only $250 Per Week
- Open access publication bill before Congress
- China to tax carbon
- Hives of Scum and Villany
- Fifty states with equal population
- What Nuclear Bombs Tell Us About Our Tendons
- Two bears, mountain lion visit L.A. suburb
- Floating Islands to the Rescue
- Going With the Flow
- Earth From Space
- Water, water everywhere, but not enough to farm
- Where will sea levels rise the most?
- Are African-Americans More Vulnerable to Climate Change?
- Landsat 8 reaches orbit
- What Do Urban Sounds Do to Your Brain?
- Landsat 8 to the rescue
- You Can Never Go Back to Nature
- Historic Gardens Can be Urban Biodiversity Hotspots
- What Sea Level Rise Will Mean in Boston
- External Airbags Designed to Save Cyclists, Pedestrians
- What rail traffic tells us about electricity generation.
- Stranded on the Roof of the World
- Lava consumes subdivision
- Cuomo Seeking Home Buyouts in Flood Zones
January 2013
- Beijing Takes Emergency Steps to Fight Smog
- China ♥ coal
- Dolphin That Died in Canal Was ‘Chronically Ill’
- What Does It Mean to Be Comfortable?
- Milestone Looms for Farm-Raised Fish
- How urban design affects our health
- Anthropocene good for arachnids
- Google Street Scene
- Why Talking Cars Will Be Good for Buses
- Amazon vs. Amazon.com
- “Friendly neighborhood serial killers”
- The Five Types of Territorial Morphology
- DNA, the computer storage of the future
- Architecture to Watch in 2013
- Fracking, as seen from space
- Time to Embrace Exotic Species? (Or at Least Some of Them)
- Eric Fischer’s personal geography of 2012
- When Pittsburgh was like Beijing
- Mapping climate change
- Beijing’s Air Quality Catastrophe
- Beijing air pollution, as seen from space
- Reviving Europe’s Biodiversity By Importing Exotic Animals
- The drivers who make Bay Area traffic unbearable
- Shortsighted
- What Will It Take to Solve Climate Change?
- Ironic
- Depends on how you define “neutral”
- Nine City-Building Projects to Watch For in 2013
- Is San Francisco The Brooklyn To Silicon Valley’s Unbuilt Manhattan?
- Australian weather service introduces a new color
- Happy birthday, London Underground
- On the last 75 years
- Terrestrial antennas
- Darkened cities
- Can you pay off an entire community?
- Inside silent Fukushima ghost town
- The Dish going independent
- Best description of GIS ever
- The world in words
- Tuning in through trees
December 2012
- A dot for every person
- Google Maps of the Year
- Battle over the front yard
- Orangutan culture
- Nested sets
- Where there’s money, there’s corruption
- Another reminder of New York’s historical coastline
- California as an island
- You Are the Real Winner Of the Mobile Maps Wars
- Before GIS
- Why Earth and atmospheric scientists are swearing up a storm and getting arrested
- Wild Horses Are Running Out of Room
- Even American Drivers Like Mass Transit More Than They Think
- Can technology save the environment?
- Google releases Maps for iOS
- City birds use cigarette butts to smoke out parasites
- Sandy, before and after
- About those 100-year flood zones
- You’re subsidizing your cable company
- Wrestling with privet on Bluebell Island
- Depressing
- An inverted city
- A microcosm
- A shitty history
- Mergui Archipelago
- Climate change compensation emerges as major issue at Doha talks
- International symbol for climate change
- Dangerous climate change now almost certain
- Giving slum dwellers an address
- Cyberwar comes to town
- Hope you like stairs
November 2012
- Good for your health, bad for the environment
- The Wild Life of American Cities
- Chicago hikes (some) transit fares
- Protecting Cities From the Disasters of the Future
- New York Times maps sea level rise
- Brooklyn says bye-bye to parking spots
- Wide racial gap exists on speed of Boston-area commutes
- Urban ecology getting its due
- Wormholes in old books preserve a history of insects
- Attack of the Mutant Pupfish
- As Coasts Rebuild and U.S. Pays, Repeatedly, the Critics Ask Why
- 10 Diagrams That Changed City Planning
- America’s Mid-20th-Century Infrastructure
- Skyfall’s Abandoned Island
- How New York City can protect against storm surges
- Qatar at night
- The Persistence of Resistance
- Side-effects
- What The 2012 Election Would Have Looked Like Without Universal Suffrage
- Your Body Is a Wondermap
- The Cities That Re-Elected Obama
- Deconstructing the city
- Slime Molds
- The Green Case for Not Rebuilding Jersey Shore Beaches
- Managing the New York Harbor
- Paul Greenberg wants some oysters
- World’s largest wetland
- 111 MPH Test Run a Big Deal for Midwest High-Speed Rail
- Aldous Huxley’s Predictions for 2000 A.D.
- Pondering industrial decay along the Northeast Corridor
- Predicted sea-level rise likely underestimated
- Before-and-After Aerial Shots of New Jersey’s Destroyed Neighborhoods
- Hurricane Sandy and the limits of the smart grid
- How global warming helped transform Sandy from a hurricane into a Frankenstorm
- It’s Global Warming, Stupid
- Sandy Brings Ashore Rare Birds
- Bloomberg Backs Obama, Citing Climate Change
October 2012
- Lower Manhattan National Park
- Casualties of Toronto’s Urban Skies
- Finally
- A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farming
- Hurricane’s effect on the Great Lakes
- Manhattan Evacuation Plan Reveals Island’s Old Contours
- Wind map of Hurricane Sandy
- New York City teases its post-apocalyptic self
- Tiny insect continues to take down hemlock forests across eastern US
- Fast and cheap
- Gigalopolises
- 100,000 Years of Dramatic Population Changes
- How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline
- Defining “surplus” land
- Did human evolution favor individualists or altruists?
- Corn Belt Shifts North With Climate as Kansas Crop Dies
- A Chemist Comes Very Close to a Midas Touch
- The Role of Place in Discovery and Innovation
- Maine Restores Undersea Plants to Protect Economy
- The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook
- Miniature Worlds Digitally Assembled from Hundreds of Photographs
- You’ve got to be kidding me
- Wake Island
- The City As Engine
- Chicago’s bet on green roofs
- Geography of bad habits
- Aircraft Carriers in Space
- The purported rise of the sharing economy
- The geography and spatial allocation of greenhouse gas emissions
- Allergies and urban biodiversity
- Geoffrey West Finds the Physical Laws Embedded in Human Cities
- Keys to the City
- Live on KCBS
- Republicans to Cities: Drop Dead
- How to grow living walls
- Demographics of Middle Earth
- The Next Pandemic: Why It Will Come from Wildlife It Will Come from Wildlife
- New Yorkers, It’s Tree Planting Season
- My how times change
- Why Your Car Isn’t Electric
- Unintended side effects of white roofs
- Romney’s $90 billion green jobs attack
- S.F. port plan shifted to allow for rising sea
- The Golden Gate at 75
- The Forgotten Mapmaker
- Sad
- To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets
- Parks and Re-Creation: The Revitalizing Power of Parks in Cities
- Massive shrinkage in African great ape habitat since 1990s
- Do Rankings Affect Our Opinions of Cities?
September 2012
- Bus rapid transit apes trains to attract riders
- Apple’s Maps takes a page from Google’s playbook
- A letter from Tim Cook on Maps
- Louisville embraces the interstate, again
- How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything
- The Shirt
- Where to catch the Google bus
- Geography of back-to-school
- Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation’s hungriest cities
- Trains of Tomorrow, After the War
- San Francisco fog, as seen from space
- A new way to measure income inequality
- Can city life be exported to the suburbs?
- Fruit salad trees
- How Tearing Up Highways Could Make Better Cities
- What Drove Early Man Across Globe? Climate Change
- Hottest state in the nation
- IKEAville
- The Anti-Skyscraper Law That Shaped Sydney, Australia
- Big-Box Retail Stores in U.S. Lead Surge in Solar Power Installations
- Farm bill falls flat on climate
- Suburban lions
- Crowdsourced maps reshaping geography
- Baby steps
- Hermit Crab Migration
- Gauge of neighborhood wealth? Look to the trees
- How Fungi May Create the Amazon’s Clouds
- Feeding 9 billion
- Drought forcing animals to scour cities for food
- Mapmaker, Artist, or Programmer?
- Why wood pulp is world’s new wonder material
- High-tech ghost town remains unbuilt
- Save the Trees, We’ll Save Your Life
- Japan’s tsunami debris
- Perpetual Ocean
- City footprints
- Our hot, violent future
August 2012
- A Typogeography of Europe
- Which Urban Freeways Are Ready to Go?
- How Google and Apple’s digital mapping is mapping us
- Infrastructure as art
- Interactive map of Gulf wave heights
- Drought forcing ranchers to find greener pastures
- T-shirt store closes tomorrow
- Reading your body clock with a molecular timetable, inspired by flowers
- Urban wind flows deposit pollutants in repetitive patterns
- Flyover of West Bend from the 1950s
- Why I write
- Mapping 26 years of drought in the U.S.
- The Unbuilt High-rise Designs of Rem Koolhaas and OMA
- Are Our Transit Maps Tricking Us?
- Last week of the Membership Drive
- What Your Skyline Says About Your City
- Citizen scientists may beat the pros in identifying at-risk species
- The coming schism in ecology
- Boston Plans For ‘Near-Term Risk’ Of Rising Tides
- New York City hoping to attract mussels to Pier 35
- Resource Rich, Cash Poor
- Overshoot Day
- Are insect colonies like cities?
- Better Sidewalks Could Bring Improved Public Health
- Why the Rich Don’t Give
- Commuters’ limits
- Is Simple Demography Behind Weak Economy?
- You can’t get there from here
- New island in Pacific spotted by satellite
- Natural ice dam
- What do you get with a Per Square Mile Membership?
- The Rebound Effect
- How Utilitarian Environmentalism Can Backfire
- Choosing the Paths Less Traveled? There’s an App for That
- The Nature of Cities
- What happens after the Olympics
- “Twitter is my city.”
- Mass of Volcanic Rocks Floating Off New Zealand
- Birth of an island
- Tree’s leaves genetically different from its roots
- Why are Americans so…
- Google’s self-driving cars log 300,000 miles
- Prisoners pitch in to save endangered butterfly
- The Secret Lives of Zipcar Drivers
- The Silver Lining in the Drought
- Why King Corn Wasn’t Ready for the Drought
- To confront climate change, US agriculture seeks hardier breeds
- USDA revises corn, soybean crop estimates 12% to 13% lower
- Corn hits new record as U.S. supply cuts loom
- Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers
- Populations of summer Olympics host cities
- The Perfect Host for the 2024 Games
- A Few Urban Syndromes
- Slovenia Leads Games in Medals Per Capita
- Tucson’s disappearing greenspace
- How Urban Parks Enhance Your Brain, Part 2
- The long tail of names in cities
July 2012
- What if the U.S. was more like Europe, geopolitically?
- Why Americans and Europeans Give Directions Differently
- Canada’s Cahokia
- American Accent Undergoing Great Vowel Shift
- Drought and food prices
- Extreme weather and engineering assumptions
- Earth as art: 5 most popular Landsat satellite images
- Happy birthday, Landsat
- British rail ridership up 50 percent in last decade
- Why Motor Trend loves high-speed rail
- Environmental benefits of self-driving cars
- Sneaking into Pantone HQ
- How droughts will reshape the United States
- The high tech of rural America
- Micro-apartments next for S.F.?
- Mashable
- Aftermath of Hungary’s toxic spill
- A plan in New Haven to right a highway’s wrong
- All the world’s a stage
- 1931′s remote-controlled farm of the future
- First the fire, then the flood: Why Colorado can’t catch a break
- A global air conditioning surge
- Temperatures climbing, weather more unstable, a majority says in poll
- Greening the city
- Live this afternoon
- Fans restore Luke Skywalker’s boyhood home
- Urban noise ‘killing baby house sparrows’
- Help NASA find the alphabet… from space
- Golfing through Detroit
- Sign of the times
- San Francisco’s solution to POPS’ anonymity
- Finding POPS
- Free speech in private spaces?
- POPS and the Occupy movement
- Privatizing cities, the world over
- The $21 million sidewalk
- Privately owned public spaces
- Can somebody, please, help George Will understand climate?
- Scientists attribute extreme weather to man-made climate change
- It’s like winning the worst lottery ever
- The perfect firestorm
- How do you prevent power outages?
- Geography of nature vs. nurture
- Crowdsourcing neighborhood boundaries
- Church or beer?
- How children lost the right to roam in four generations
- After accidents and lawsuits, more money for tree care
- Cap parks
- Lonesome George and the park ranger
- Boston ponders app to ease traffic
- White roofs and income inequality
- Goldman village
- Crabby politicians
- From movie to theme park
- As furniture burns quicker, firefighters reconsider tactics
- Fancier Google Maps
- Infrastructure and you
June 2012
- Polarity
- Four World Trade Center
- Sweden’s black market for strawberries
- Lunch: An urban invention
- The Galapagos loses an icon
- Broke cities sell naming rights
- Privatizing the city
- Replacing ice caps with pavement
- Mapping historical disasters
- Bingo
- Fame
- Ancient Romans ranting about cities
- Tokyo’s suburban boom
- Hello!
- NPR Cities
- The birth of zoning codes, a history
- Trees, cabs, and crime
- Mapping disasters
- Where seniors are moving
- It’s getting hot in here
- What’s a Googie?
- An anti-storm
- Busting the iOS 6 transit map myths
- The pseudo-suburbanist’s dilemma
- Nature Score
- Chlorophyll and computer vision
- The future, according to Civilization II
- Getting used to being in charge of the planet
- For your listening pleasure
- The Takeaway
- Density and transit
- How big is LA?
- Count the trees
- Learning from Munich’s Olympic architecture
- Ray Bradbury never gave up on monorails
- A map of the planet’s most visited websites by country
- What is nature, now?
- Go outside
- What can you do with $1 billion?
- Is humanity pushing earth past its tipping point?
- David Quammen on Twitter
- An atlas of suburbanisms
- San Francisco’s latest tech bubble
- Great comments on seeing income inequality from space
- The Internet in 1988
- The yin and yang of conserving land
- Greenbelt Mapper
May 2012
- Street lights change ecosystems
- How the chicken conquered the world
- Lake Powell and The Rincon
- Mind-pops
- Do plants smell other plants?
- How Facebook saved us from suburbia
- New species in the Old World
- Which nations consume the most water?
- Do you know your neighbors?
- “There was a whole city under my city.”
- Maps of the (paleo)future
- Link between weather and mood, revealed by Twitter
- Dispelling highway myths
- A word about email subscriptions
- Where do pigeons go when they die?
- Is LA a city?
- Earth’s tropical zone expanding
- More on Africa’s new megapark
- New urbanism goes mainstream
- Designing democracy around a ditch
- 13 percent for clean energy
- Poised for a comeback
- Urban ambisonics
- Subways converging on ideal form
- The Mississippi’s braided past
- Reconstructing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
- The next 100 years
- Tokyo’s LED “fireflies”
- House votes to kill Census’s American Community Survey
- National Train Day
- Callenbach and Ecotopia
- Google Maps for Ancient Rome
- Mapping Life
- Our dwindling food variety
- An ill-fated monument to electricity
- Lights out for research satellites?
- And here on the 12th floor, a food truck
- A car, exploded
- The pond beneath the Empire State Building
- Chicago, the bane of trains
- Pub shed
- The definition of home
- Interactive web map of urban resource use
- Who killed men’s hats?
- When flying 720 miles takes 12 hours
- Use caution
- Cartography of the anthropocene
- Rural life without the hard edges
- Forestry as insurance
April 2012
- Silo trees
- Will organic food fail to feed the world?
- Unused US hydropower could supply 1.5 million megawatt-hours annually
- Africa for sale
- Live from your backyard
- Digital hachures
- The invisible borders of American culture
- Hydrologic commonwealths
- Brooklyn to get urban science institute
- Traffic signs of the world
- Why don’t conservative cities walk?
- Wal-Mart bribed Mexican officials to speed store construction
- Georgia plans instant city on Black Sea
- Steepest road in America (unofficial)
- Where heavy metal lives
- Stories Everywhere
- Design for a water-scarce future
- It wasn’t your imagination, cont.
- Typography in the city
- Neighbor see, neighbor do
- Where the tallest trees live
- Why trees matter
- The Caprivi Strip
- Mr. Darwin goes to the city
- The high cost of losing urban trees
- It wasn't your imagination
- The greatest challenge of our species
- Smart sand
- Hong Kong's underground
- End of the exurbs?
- The wilds of New Orleans
- American elm trees cloned
- The Midwest's big economic miscalculation
- Stamen maps
- The imposturbs
March 2012
- Google Maps for NES
- Real-time wind map
- When a parking lot is so much more
- Swelling cities threaten humanity, experts say
- Both coasts watch closely as San Francisco faces erosion
- California cities most densely populated in U.S.
- The San Francisco Archipelago
- Super sandstorm engulfs parts of Middle East, Asia
- The value of your footsteps
- Plans for another record-setting conservation area
- Modeling movement between cities
- Satellite image of California, circa 1851
- A different kind of cabin fever
- Is there a smart way for cities to privatize parking?
- Early returns on San Francisco's parking meter experiment
- Five African nations form world's largest conservation area
- Six involuntary parks
- If you plant a tree in Mongolia…
- Is it aggregation or simply rewriting?
- Unbunching buses
- Mapping "play deserts"
- Bury your parking
- SimCity rebuilt for age of climate change
- When left to its own devices
- When is a display "retina" quality?
- Small steps
- Aerial views of San Francisco from an RC helicopter
- How many people can Manhattan hold?
- Urbanists weigh in on The City 2.0
- Folly of permanent structures on impermanent surfaces
- Star Wars visionary Ralph McQuarrie reimagined cities, too
February 2012
- Central Standard Time, circa 1883
- MoMA tackles forclosures
- New battery triples energy density
- Climate change triggers earthquakes and eruptions
- Bleak future for many birds
- Why you should pay for public schools even if you don't have kids
- Thank Google for your transit app
- Do wildlife corridors really work?
- Russia's 10 mile border with North Korea
- Smallest "national forest"
- 500 million trees wither in Texas drought
- Another disappearing lake
- Why Don't Americans Riot Anymore?
- A new version of the American Dream
- Interstate system as a subway map
- Gulp
- The circular economy
- Should city trees bear fruit?
- Alternative maps of America
- What's missing in the new Blue Marble
- The city as an egg
- Mo' chickens, mo' problems
- Duck power
- Environmentalism in perspective
- Unwilding
- Amazon's biggest weakness
- Programming languages are dense
- Glacier thief arrested in Chile
- History of the cruise ship
January 2012
- North American travel patterns, revealed by Twitter
- China's largest freshwater lake disappears
- Allure of the Chinatown bus
- Honeybee highways
- Mapping scientific collaboration
- What's a good chicken per cage ratio?
- Literate cities not always the wealthiest
- Pack 'em in
- Rise of the megacity
- Perils of roadbuilding in the tropics
- Does the leap second matter?
- Tell me what you see
- Unhealthy commutes or unfinished analysis?
- The United States of Open Space
- Feeding more with less
- Disruption and diversity
- Does an airport line have to reach the airport?
- What range anxiety?
- Abandoned America
- Friends don't let friends walk drunk
- Most detailed map of U.S. forests yet
- Amazonian deforestation reveals lost cities
- Universities don't want to be saviors