tag > Urban
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We have ruined our cities for parking lots. Mapping parking in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA (via)
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Had to leave a comment on (yet another) stealth ad video about self driving cars..
"While you US guys keep making sleek payed advertising clips for (self-driving) cars, the rest of the world had enough of cars, full stop. Self driving cars are still cars - dangerous, polluting, city destroying, loud metal boxes mostly filled with air - Highly inefficient legacy methods of transportation. A future worth aspiring to are cities free of all cars: Cities for people, not machines. The Europeans and even more so the Chinese have gotten the message, tripling down on high speed trains instead, which have a far superior space utilization profile than any car will ever have. Think bicycles, remote-working and walkable cities - not even more cars with just with some AI magic on-top which takes away the last few driver jobs (Uber & co) from people who are already struggling to make a living."
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Noise pollution kills
Noise pollution is a very important topic, that is under-discussed and criminally neglected. I can personally attest to the horrendous impact of noise on health (mental & physical), as my previous home/district in Berlin was very loud. But i only truly appreciated this, once i moved into nature and experienced a more silent setting on a daily basis. Be aware of noise pollution & protect your ears.
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The arrogance of space: “18 bikes can be parked in the place of one car, 30 of them can move along in the space devoured by a single automobile..."
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There's a Curious Effect Urban Trees Might Have on Depression, Study Finds (sciencealert)
Researchers used antidepressant prescriptions rather than self-reporting to gauge the mental health of communities, and then cross-referenced these statistics with the numbers of street trees in each area. They reported that more local foliage within 100 metres (328 feet) of the home was associated with a reduced likelihood of being prescribed antidepressants – findings that could be very useful indeed for city planners, health professionals, and governments.
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Germany Plans To Dim Lights At Night To Save Insects 46
Germany is planning to ban floodlights from dusk for much of the year as part of its bid to fight a dramatic decline in insect populations, it emerged Wednesday.
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Elonmusk continues his effort to spend lots of money to transport tiny numbers of people
The Boring Company’s “public transit” system has become a valet stand in a parking garage.
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Selection of urban food commons actors by different attributes. Urban planning is facing multi-layered challenges to manage the transformation towards a more sustainable and inclusive society. The recently evolved concept of an “urban commons” responds to the crucial need to re-situate residents as key actors. Urban food commons summarize all initiatives that are food-related (e.g., cultivation, harvest, and distribution), aiming at a visualization and utilization of value chains and the commons-based linkage between them.
Relations between different actors in an edible city network. We explored first insights of food commons in Berlin based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Urban food commons strengthen identification, participation, self-organization, and social resilience, are steered by bottom-up processes, and can be a powerful tool for a transformation towards urban sustainability. However, a viable political integration of existing initiatives lacks due to structural implementation problems. Respondents recommend a pooling of all initiatives in a strong network and a mediation interface to coordinate between food commons and city administration and politics. A combined approach of commons and edible cities will be helpful for the development of future prove food systems.
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Scientists Say You Can Cancel the Noise but Keep Your Window Open
Researchers in Singapore developed a system that’s sort of like noise-canceling headphones for your whole apartment. Their results were published on Thursday in Scientific Reports. The prototype is not yet the most practical device in real world conditions, but it points the way toward the development of technologies that may help ease the strain of noisy city living.
