Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Public-sector leaders must strike a balance among insight, cost and power consumption. Here’s what that looks like in ...

Ballot initiatives that empower cities to seek all-renewable electricity were approved by voters in Ohio and New Jersey last week, marking the spread of a popular idea that has also raised concerns ...

(TNS) — The long road to action on locally-owned smart-tech LED street lights through the state Smart Street Lighting NY program is heading into the final stretch for a number of north country ...

“These things have come in so hot and heavy in the past six months. We need time to figure out what we need to do,” League City Mayor Nick Long said. “People are concerned that they’re unsafe. At this ...

Geographer Geoff Boeing, an urban planning postdoc at UC—Berkeley, has found a way to represent a city in a handy visual shorthand. By downloading and crunching municipal boundaries and street ...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been picked as the site of a new national grid energy research facility by the Department of Energy. The proposed project would mean tens of millions of ...

There is evidence that the orthogonal grid plan, which is one of the most common types of urban planning today, dates back to antiquity. Streets intersect at right angles to each other, resulting in a ...

The rate increase, National Grid argues, is necessary for maintaining service as safe and reliable for customers. But environmentalists question adding gas hookups and revamping the system when New ...

The crossroad of South Ashland Avenue and West County Line Road, in Will County, Illinois, is a picture of classic midwestern rural America. Ashland Avenue, at that point, is barely wider than a lane.