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joncounts
Jon Sullivan @joncounts@mastodon.nz · 3d ago
Jack Tame has a fantastic interview with Professor Marco te Brömmelstroet from the University of Amsterdam on how to make city streets better and do much more for societies than move people around in private cars. The biggest threat to children's lives in western societies is car traffic. There are other options. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIjaWFrC5Q #nz #UrbanPlanning #BikeTooter #LessCars #cities #TVNZ #JackTame
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ombialik
Dr. Or M. Bialik @ombialik@mastodon.world · Jul 27, 2026
In the Bronze Age, what we call a small town would be a big city, and what we call a major city would be unimaginable. It isn't simple to grasp just how cities have grown through time. So I used a log scale to visualize. Refs & Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_urban_community_sizes #Cities #History
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plzupgrademe
plzupgrademe @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca · Jul 26, 2026
Toronto from above. Nagoya from below. Toronto City Hall shot from the Shearton Centre Hotel Toronto Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel towers, part of the JR Nagoya Shinkansen station. #toronto #towers #architecture #cities #photography
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plzupgrademe
plzupgrademe @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca · Jul 24, 2026
Love a hotel room with a view of a train stastion. Here is a photo of Osaka Station in Japon taken from the Osaka Ritz Carlton #japon #japan #trains #trainspotting #railfanning #rail #railroad #skylines #cities #trainstation #bahnhof #bahnbilder #bahn #기차
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HikerGeek
Hiker Geek 🌲💻🌲 @HikerGeek@mas.to · Jul 24, 2026
File this one under how fast can the US go backwards. Sean Duffy is trying to remove federal funding for bike lanes and encourage legislation that makes it easier to remove existing bike lanes that slow motor vehicle traffic. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2026/07/23/the-last-straw-duffy-asks-senate-to-restrict-funding-for-bike-lanes #bike #traffic #cities #uspol
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mbongowo
Mbongowo J Mbuh @mbongowo@mastodon.social · Jul 23, 2026
We mapped urban heat island intensification in Minneapolis–St. Paul and Chicago with 32 years of Landsat (1984–2016). The pattern is stubborn: land-cover change writes itself into surface temperature, neighborhood by neighborhood, and it compounds. Paper in Geocarto International: https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2019.1655802 #UrbanHeatIsland #Landsat #RemoteSensing #ClimateChange #Cities
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Oxymetheus
Oxymetheus 🇨🇦 @Oxymetheus@mastodon.world · Jul 19, 2026
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Excellent! https://riftlymedia.com/zipper-mechanics-fail-everyday-product-engineering/ I swear, every city needs a medina, a cheap mixed-use neighborhood where people can open tiny 2m × 2m shops that specialize in fixing zippers. Or sharpening kitchen knives. Or replacing shoe heels. You can get those services now, of course, but only at ruinous cost, because every shop has to pay thousands of dollars a month in rent on a high street. More tiny kiosks on narrow streets, sez I. #economics #urbanism #cities #repairability
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thejapantimes
The Japan Times @thejapantimes@mastodon.social · Jul 18, 2026
In urban Japan, where space is scarce, opposition to data centers is growing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/18/japan/society/japan-data-centers-opposition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #ai #datacenters #cities #japaneseeconomy #tech
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mf_analysis
MediaFaro Analysis @mf_analysis@mastodon.mediafaro.org · Jul 04, 2026
Madrid’s residents raise their voices against mega-concerts. Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny held a residency from late May to mid-June at a stadium in the Spanish capital. The concerts were not to the liking of local residents. Fed up with the noise, many people in Madrid are complaining about the transformation of their city, as local authorities have made large-scale events a driver of economic growth. https://mediafaro.org/article/20260704-madrids-residents-raise-their-voices-against-mega-concerts?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward #Madrid #Concerts #BadBunny #Music #Cities #Spain
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FediGarden
Fedi.Garden @FediGarden@social.growyourown.services · Jul 08, 2026
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Urbanists.video is a PeerTube video server for everyone interested in walkable, livable places who wants to watch or publish videos about them. This PeerTube server is currently accepting new members who can upload videos, click "Request an account" on the server's website to sign up. :Fediverse: https://urbanists.video You can find out more at https://urbanists.video/about/instance/home or contact the admins @alex@social.harding.dev & @mattcaff@union.place #FeaturedServer #Urbanism #Urbanists #Cities #CityPlanning #UrbanPlanning #PeerTube
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FediVideo
Fedi.Video @FediVideo@social.growyourown.services · Jul 08, 2026
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Paige Saunders makes videos about city planning, urbanism, cycling, public transport and related topics, often using Canada as an example. You can follow at: ➡️ @paige@video.canadiancivil.com (Don't worry if it looks blank, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.) You can also follow Paige's non-video account at @paige@masto.canadiancivil.com #FeaturedPeerTube #Urbanism #Cities #Planning #Cycling #Transit #Canada #Canadian #PeerTube
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rewildingmag
Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag@spore.social · Jul 05, 2026
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The first signs of recovery came with the monsoon, when a grass cover sprouted over the land. “Every day was a surprise after that,” he says. Soon, insects returned, followed by woodland birds like orioles, barbets and hornbills. The park is now home to diverse forms of life, including amphibians, invertebrates and several mammals like nilgai and the jungle cat. #rewilding #india #cities #urbanrewilding #ecology #nativeplants #reforestation https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-making-of-an-urban-forest/
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Dragofix
Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social · Jun 26, 2026
White roofs and urban parks reduce heat in cities, but do not offset extreme global warming https://phys.org/news/2026-06-white-roofs-urban-cities-offset.html #city #cities #environment #weather #temperature #heat #heatwave #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
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OWGF
Our Wonderful Green Future @OWGF@mastodon.world · Jun 11, 2026
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This is coming to me highly recommended: Women Changing Cities Global Stories of Urban Transformation The future of cities is female... - As cities around the world face mounting crises - climate change, traffic congestion and growing inequity - the need for bold, people-first solutions has never been greater. Enter the women leading the charge. #Urbanism #Women #Cities https://www.modacitylife.com/women-changing-cities
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FediVideo
Fedi.Video @FediVideo@social.growyourown.services · May 12, 2026
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Oh The Urbanity! make videos about city planning, urbanism, public transport, cycling, housing and related topics. They are based in Canada, but they cover cities in other countries too. You can follow their account at: ➡️ @ohtheurbanity They've already published over 200 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://video.canadiancivil.com/a/ohtheurbanity/videos #FeaturedPeerTube #Cities #Urbanism #CityPlanning #PublicTransport #Cycling #Housing #Canada #PeerTube
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Dragofix
Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social · Apr 27, 2026
Open dumping & failed reforms bury Sri Lankan cities in waste problem https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/open-dumping-failed-reforms-bury-sri-lankan-cities-in-waste-problem/ #SriLanka #cities #environment #waste
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