Human Scale
- economist.com Why southern Europeans will soon be the longest-lived people in the world
Diet and exercise, but also urban design and social life
- stronghaven.substack.com How to Avoid Being Malled
Malls were dumb bets, but not for the reasons you probably think
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How Long Should Objects Last?
www.core77.com Fantastic Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?" - Core77This incredibly ambitious and thoroughly-executed project is by Charlie Humble-Thomas, done while pursuing his Masters in the Design Products program at the RCA. Called Conditional Longevity, it asks the question: "How long should objects last?" Seeking the answer, Humble-Thomas tackles an oft-disca...
- usa.streetsblog.org Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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The Boring Building Index: a census of places that have become characterless and inhuman
humanise.org THE HUMANISE CAMPAIGN | CALL FOR AN END TO BORING BUILDINGSWe're living through a quiet global catastrophe of soulless boring buildings. Join the campaign, launched by Heatherwick Studio, to make cities more human.
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The Humanise Campaign call for an end to boring buildings
humanise.org THE HUMANISE CAMPAIGN | CALL FOR AN END TO BORING BUILDINGSWe're living through a quiet global catastrophe of soulless boring buildings. Join the campaign, launched by Heatherwick Studio, to make cities more human.
- www.strongtowns.org The Winds Are Changing on Incremental Housing
A bill to legalize certain forms of “missing middle” housing statewide in Minnesota appears dead in the legislature. Yet, here are 4 reasons why it’s still not a total loss.
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Cities Where People Travel the "Wrong Way" to Work (and Why)
nebula.tv CityNerd — Cities Where People Travel the "Wrong Way" to Work (and Why)When you think of commuting, you probably think of people traveling from the suburbs to the central city. Today we'll talk about why this is an oversimplified idea, why it might be a BAD idea, and we'll look at ten city-suburb pairs that flip the script.
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Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia will finally be completed in 2026
edition.cnn.com Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia will finally be completed in 2026 | CNNThe Sagrada Familia in Barcelona will finally be finished in 2026, more than 140 years after construction started, officials have confirmed.
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How fungi can be used to clean up pollution and fight climate change
www.bbc.com In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses: How fungi can be used to clean up pollutionIn the struggle to combat pollution and fight climate change, a growing number of scientists are beginning to look to one of nature’s oldest biotechnologies: fungi
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Living with Self-Driving Cars
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For most of us, autonomous vehicles are this nebulous concept that might appear some time in our future, but there are other people living with this reality today - whether they like it or not. In this episode, I talk to Jon from the Twitch channel Bike Curious about what it's like to live in San Francisco, where autonomous vehicles are around you every single day and there's nothing you can do about it - except put a traffic cone on their hood.
- www.strongtowns.org Pre-Permitted Plans Help Kalamazoo Bring Housing Back
Like so many other places, the city of Kalamazoo, MI, has been facing a cascade of housing challenges. Here’s how they’re tackling them using pre-approved housing plans.
- www.theregister.com It's time to add friction to digital experiences
Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger
- www.strongtowns.org Where Do Infrastructure Projects Come From?
Your city just announced a big infrastructure project, one with significant state and federal funding. You and your neighbors are likely wondering: why this project?
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Suppose there were no street cars
kolektiva.social sidereal (@[email protected])Attached: 1 image Wow look it's exactly what happened when we got rid of the streetcars. Aged extremely well
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Give Us Something to Look At - Why Ornaments in Architecture Matters
theamericanscholar.org Give Us Something to Look At - The American ScholarWhy ornament matters in architecture
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The Italian town of Lucca with its Piazza dell' Anfiteatro, built on the remains of a Roman amphitheatre.
social.anoxinon.de Nina Willburger (@[email protected])Angehängt: 2 Bilder For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go the Italian town of #Lucca with its Piazza dell' Anfiteatro. It's elliptical because it was built on the remains of a #Roman amphitheatre. Photo: https://www.tuscanypeople.com/piazza-anfiteatro-lucca/ #RomanArchaeology #archaeology
- theconversation.com The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
- www.cam.ac.uk Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing
Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our
- www.strongtowns.org The 6 Zoning Reforms Every Municipality Should Adopt
Here are six tried and tested, “no-brainer” zoning reforms any city or town in North America should consider adopting.
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Pick any street. Add a touch of dutch. See how it can be made livable again.
Using AI to imagine how car-centric areas can be made attractive for people instead.
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The Japanese city that dominates street food – and no, it’s not Tokyo
edition.cnn.com The Japanese city that dominates street food – and no, it’s not Tokyo | CNNFukuoka, Japan’s sixth largest city by population, has more open-air food stalls than the rest of the country combined.
- wrathofgnon.substack.com The Alluring City
A philosophical inspection in which the author suggest a different way to approach the question of how to best create the kind of towns and cities in which we want to dwell.
- www.theguardian.com ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars
A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it
- www.strongtowns.org Street Fight: Why We Should Fight the Good Fight for Happy, Healthy, and Beautiful Places
Don’t wage a war against drivers, but don’t wage a war for them, either.
- cleantechnica.com Instead of Talking About Speed Limits, Let’s Talk More About Stroads
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! I recently saw people on social media saying that there should be a 20 MPH speed limit everywhere in cities, which is a pretty weird argument all by itself in 2023. This, sadly, is an idea that’s been pushed […]
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Common garden weeds in Southern California
gregalder.com Common garden weeds in Southern California - Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardeningThe off-season rain of Hurricane Hilary on August 20 gave a rare opportunity for both warm-season and cool-season weeds to germinate at the same time. I thought I would take advantage by photographing the young seedlings as they came up. I chose to post here only the weeds that I see most commonly i...
Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardening
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Project Kamp - What living in our off-grid community looks like
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Kagi Small Web
blog.kagi.com Kagi Small Web | Kagi BlogAs a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of Kagi Small Web. ----------------------- What is Kagi Small Web? ----------------------- While there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers to the non-commercial part of the web, crafted by...
- www.strongtowns.org A Life Without Car Ownership: The Challenges Are Not What I Thought They’d Be!
Five years ago, Emma Durand-Wood’s family decided to try the car-free lifestyle. And although they’ve experienced many positives from their choice, there have also been undeniable challenges.
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The Insane Ways Traffic Engineers Try to Make Streets "Safe" For Walking (CityNerd)
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/6168675
> > RRFBs. HAWK signals. Do any of these devices actually do what they're supposed to do, and how do traffic engineers decide when and where to install them? > > * https://piped.video/watch?v=3HCDFczGh84 > * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HCDFczGh84 > > As a European, much of this was mind-boggling to me. While I believe all of this is real, I still found myself wondering throughout the video: Is this actually the norm in the US, or are these some cherry-picked bad examples? It felt for me like a whole other level of systemic hostility.
- www.theguardian.com Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can