Cities

This is what your city would look like without light pollution

This photography series shows what the night sky might look like after humans and their light pollution are wiped off the planet.

Jess Zimmerman Cities

Hyper-dysfunctional Congress punts on Sandy relief

The least productive Congress in a generation is adjourning without allocating any aid at all for those affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Philip Bump Cities

Street scenes: 12 great cities stories from 2012

From street artists to Martin Luther King, and gun violence to our odd, sometimes nonsensical obsession with Jane Jacobs -- these are our favorite city-related stories from the past year.

Grist staff Cities

2012: The year cities stood up to climate change — and took a beating

While national and international leaders fiddled, cities got serious about the climate crisis. Then superstorm Sandy showed us how much is at stake -- and how far we still have to go.

Greg Hanscom Cities

How to legalize goats in your city

The "godmother of goat lovers" describes how she went about changing Seattle's backyard goat laws.

Jennie Grant Cities

New York’s energy-efficiency survey suggests that older is often better

Despite LEED certification for new buildings, structures with thicker walls and fewer windows often are more environment-friendly.

Philip Bump Cities

Seattle mayor calls for city’s pension funds to dump oil stocks

Seattle's Mike McGinn becomes the first municipal leader to join 350.org's divestment campaign. He's pushing back again coal trains too.

Lisa Hymas Cities

Amazing new house proves that green doesn’t have to mean expensive

In a tough neighborhood in Washington, D.C., the new Empowerhouse generates all of its own energy and captures all the rainwater that falls on site. And it didn’t cost a million bucks to build.

Jared Green Cities

What the fiscal cliff would mean for our cities and food

Whether we stop the crazy train with a compromise or careen into the ravine, the fiscal cliff presents serious challenges for cities and agriculture.

Susie Cagle Cities

Lead-bullet ad targets NRA, misses the point

The Center for Biological Diversity is running an ad in The New York Times calling for the NRA to stop blocking efforts to remove lead from bullets.