tag > Urban
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China sounds clarion call to making absolute poverty history. (Xinhuanet)
from "Ending China's poverty by 2020", by Zhao Hong (CGTN, 2020) "China is poised to tackle the hardest phase in securing a full victory in the anti-poverty battle in 2020 as it enters the homestretch in achieving the first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. [...] In 2019, more than 10 million people were expected to shake off poverty. [...] By the end of 2019, the poverty headcount ratio in the areas has fallen to 2% from 8.2% in 2018. "
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This decade began just after a historic inflection point, with 51% of the world's population living in urban areas. From a report:
"The proportion of the world's population living in urban areas has continued to rise steadily, reaching 55% as of 2018. It's climbed faster in China, up from 48% to 59% -- meaning an additional 180 million people are living in Chinese cities. China now has 130 cities of at least 1 million people, more than the U.S. (45), European Union (36) and South America (46) combined. India, which won't become majority-urban until the 2040s, has 61 such cities. There are 63 in Africa. Nigeria just became majority-urban in 2018, but urbanization in the West African giant will grow even more dramatically over the next decade. Nigeria's 10 largest cities are home to 32 million people as of 2018, with 13 million of those in Lagos. The UN projects their combined populations will rise to 50 million by 2030 -- just over a decade away -- by which time Lagos will have over 20 million residents."
Related: 68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, says UN
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Space Required to Transport 48 People
The Copenhagen Tramways (1863-1972) already knew it:
“One bus can relieve the street for 40 cars with 1.7 passengers in each” (via)
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Book: Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions - by Donald A. Schön (1983)
"Design as a Reflective Conversation with the Situation" - Donald A. Schön
Reflective Practice Links
- Wikipedia: Reflective Practice
- Overview blog: The Reflective Practitioner by Donald Schon - by Peter Buwert (2012)
- Paper: Re-Educating The Reflective Practitioner: A Critique - by C.Cáceres (2017)
- Paper: An Ontology Of Donald Schön’s Reflection In Designing - by John.S.Gero
- Blog: Donald Schon (Schön): learning, reflection and change - by infed
- Presentation: Reflective Practice
#Design #Philosophy #Education #Urban #Architecture #Book #KM
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Truth, Power, Knowledge - Ink drawing by Daniel Lauand (2011) (via)
Related: “Proposal for a Monument to Logical Fallacies” & The Quantization of Reality Fallacy
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Modelling urban networks using Variational Autoencoders
“VAEs capable of capturing key high-level urban network metrics using low-dimensional vectors and generating new urban forms of complexity matching the cities captured in the street network data”
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What Cities Can Learn from Human Bodies: https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2019/04/21/cities-can-learn-human-bodies #Regenerative #Urban #Infrastructure
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Sidewalk Labs' Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police: http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/11/sidewalk-labs-smart-cities-will-create.html
Sidewalk Labs advances plans for Toronto smart city: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/11/01/sidewalk-labs-waterfront-toronto-development/ #Urban #Infrastructure #Military #SE
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How to Use BSF for Biowaste Treatment - by Sandec Eawag
Biowaste - Moving FORWARD
History of Sandec Part 1:
Nothing is impossible..
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compost.net berlin – community compost network: https://ecospace.net/compostnet/
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Biotonnen in Berlin - Seit Montag gilt die Mülltrenn-Pflicht: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/biotonnen-in-berlin-seit-montag-gilt-die-muelltrenn-pflicht/24165124.html
Berlins Biotonnenpflicht wird zum Problem: https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article214216057/Biotonnenpflicht-als-Bumerang.html
BSR denkt über Vergärungsanlage für Bio-Müll nach: https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article216146425/BSR-denkt-ueber-Vergaerungsanlage-fuer-Bio-Muell-nach.html
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Great free MOOC on "Municipal Solid Waste Management": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXdyAGKs9dakJlgdjD5vfw #Regenerative #Urban #Design #Regenerative
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New Open Access Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2019/03/28/making-smarter-more-sustainable-cities/ #Regenerative #Urban #FFHCI
"brings together some of the most cutting-edge research on our planet’s urban future from economics, public health, ecology and natural sciences, to sociology, energy engineering and architecture"
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The Ecological Design Revolution - talk by John Todd: https://www.toddecological.com/
Ecological Design - John Todd
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ReGen Villages - Tech-Integrated and Regenerative Residential Real Estate Development:
http://regenvillages.com/
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“Forest City,” created to fight pollution - in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, China:
https://futurism.com/china-has-officially-started-construction-on-the-worlds-first-forest-city "This city will run on renewables and absorb nearly 10,000 tons of CO2 and 57 tons of pollutants yearly." #Architecture #Regenerative #Urban #China
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How urban farms could solve our future food problems and promote a green lifestyle: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/interiors-living/article/3012990/how-urban-farms-could-solve-our-future-food-problems-and #Urban #Garden #Regenerative
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CLUMSY GARDENER | Rooftop farming
CLUMSY GARDENER | Adventures in Growing:
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The Flora of the Future Celebrating the botanical diversity of cities: https://placesjournal.org/article/the-flora-of-the-future/
