In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s classic sci-fi novel The Mote in God’s Eye, humans end up visiting an alien planet. One of the oddities of this new world is that the aliens cross the roads by ...

If you’ve lived in Brooklyn for a while, chances are you’ve seen the physical streetscape change quite a bit, as new buildings have popped up around the borough. A newly released study documented ...

Which cities have the greenest streets? MIT’s Senseable City Lab is pushing toward an answer to this question with a new project called Treepedia. A map website that catalogues the density of the tree ...