"Insight into the minds and lives of the #animals that have learned how to live around us could help us learn to be better neighbors to them.

"And accepting peaceful #coexistence as a shared responsibility might even help us be better neighbors to other people as well."

#urbanwildlife #coyote #cities #rewilding #edmonton

https://www.biographic.com/the-coyote-next-door/

756 #ClimateSolutions #Cities #HighwayBrain

Highway brain the older brother of car brain.

"They're Hopelessly Addicted ... to Building Highways" [7:36 min]
by I Love the City [Mar 24, 2025]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIf8QKtCGjE

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature

New Cities: Skyline 2 update reduces homelessness and makes it easier to track, alongside new difficulty modes - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/new-cities-skyline-2-update-reduces-homelessness-and-makes-it-easier-to-track-alongside-new-difficulty-modes #ParadoxInteractive #Birdview/Isometric #Cities:SkylinesII #Family-friendly #XboxSeriesX/S #ColossalOrder #SinglePlayer #Simulation #Management #ModernDay #Strategy #Realism #Sandbox #PS5 #PC

Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:

“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”

He was right. We just didn’t listen.

My homage, in Bloomberg CityLab:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/in-1955-lewis-mumford-saw-nyc-s-congestion-battle-coming?srnd=phx-citylab

Nothing like getting off the train and seeing this view to remind you that good things are worth fighting for

There’s more to #Ottawa than manicured lawns and pretty petals.

Thanks to multiple grassroots efforts, Ottawa’s bountiful greenery is getting more sustainable as #rewilding efforts are on the rise. Here are four projects that deserve attention and support.

#urbanrewilding #cities #seeds

https://www.rewildingmag.com/4-ways-ottawa-is-rewilding-and-your-city-can-too/

"All of this raises a question that was unfathomable until recently: Is the nation’s capital, so long blessed by being the government’s company town, at risk of a fate resembling that of so many other company towns through the years? And if it is, why aren’t people beyond metro Washington more concerned about it? When Detroit was in free fall, Obama intervened to bail out the auto industry, deciding a great American city needed help. But now, the administration in power is itself delivering the fateful blow to a major city.

It is hard not to detect in this turnabout some resentment on the part of Trump allies and supporters from regions that have not been faring well in recent times. By 2012, when the country was finally emerging from the recession, seven of the 10 wealthiest counties were in metro Washington; the area’s number of high-net-worth households, with investable assets of more than $1 million, had risen by 30% since 2008. While Midwestern communities such as Vice President JD Vance’s hometown, Middletown, Ohio, were being crushed by the opioid epidemic, the Aston Martin dealership in Tysons Corner, Virginia, was selling hundreds of the bespoke James Bond car for about $280,000, and home prices in the District were approaching a 400% increase from the early 1990s."

https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-dc-trump-musk-federal-government-cutbacks-gloomy-future

Bigger #cities, bigger #wealth gaps? New research suggests #inequality isn’t just historical or cultural, but inherent to urban growth itself - & that understanding these long-term dynamics could help us chart a course toward a fairer #urban future.

https://nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00213-1 @NatureNewsteam

Paradox celebrate 10 years of Cities: Skylines with a roadmap of anniversary goodies - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/paradox-celebrate-10-years-of-cities-skylines-with-a-roadmap-of-anniversary-goodies #Birdview/Isometric #ParadoxInteractive #Cities:Skylines #NintendoSwitch #ColossalOrder #XboxSeriesX/S #SinglePlayer #Simulation #Management #Strategy #XboxOne #PS4 #Mac #PC

“#Cycling #infrastructure around the world is undergoing a renaissance, blending art, #design, and #sustainability … As #cities race to reduce carbon #emissions, ease #traffic congestion, and encourage healthier lifestyles, they’ve turned to #cycling as a practical and eco-friendly answer. These #urban areas aren’t just building #bikelanes—they’re creating experiences that cater to #cyclists’ comfort, #safety, and even their sense of adventure” https://momentummag.com/here-are-10-amazing-examples-of-cycling-solutions-from-cities-around-the-world/

Cities aflame - with climate change

"Fire used to be a major concern for cities, and it could be again. #Cities and fire are uneasy bedfellows, and #ClimateChange will worsen the situation."

https://theconversation.com/fires-used-to-terrify-city-residents-new-research-suggests-climate-change-could-see-this-fear-return-251056

**Parallel scaling of elite wealth in ancient Roman and modern cities with implications for understanding urban inequality**

_"These patterns suggest the presence of an ancient, enduring mechanism underlying urban inequality. Supported by an agent-based network simulation and informed by the settlement scaling theory, we propose that the observed patterns arise from common preferential attachment in social networks—a simple, yet powerful, driver of unequal access to interaction potential."_

Carleton, W.C., Elton, H., Miranda, W. et al. Parallel scaling of elite wealth in ancient Roman and modern cities with implications for understanding urban inequality. Nat Cities (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00213-1.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Roman #Cities #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

I had some time to spend in a small town. People watched me as if I were "not normal". Well, I was so fascinated about the biodiversity of lichens and mosses and what they told me about the weather and air quality!
(Is it normal, to walk through a city without regarding mosses and lichens???)
More in alt texts and about the "alien" Nostoc (pic 2) here: https://www.cronenburg.net/nostoc/

new #Introduction for the bsky bridge : I’m a #BioChemist turned #ScienceWriter, write a feature for every issue of #CurrentBiology, 2/month, mostly about #ecology #evolution #environment also #human, #cultural things seen thru #biology prism. Plus #ScienceBooks, most recently: #Intertwined: From insects to icebergs Also writing a #musical #FamilyHistory #memoir around #biography of our old #cello. #PirateLuthier fixing unloved #violins #NoCars #cycling, #trains, #liveable #cities #townmouse

711 #ClimateSolutions #Cities #Bikes vs #Busses

It's a trick !!
The carlobby trying to put cycling opposit public transport. So while 'we' quarral amongst eachother about the limited funds, nobody will notice the unlimited funds allocated to the car infrastructure. Which is much more expensive and benefits fewer people.
Guys... it's not a contest. Present the public with enough safe ALTERNATIVES and there will be less cars polluting the streets.

"Are Urbanists Too Obsessed With Bikes? (Why Not Focus on Transit?)" [8:53 min]
by Oh The Urbanity!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvOoTvmt6_c

Quote by OTU:
"Feb 22, 2025
One of the most common arguments against building dedicated bike infrastructure is that we should instead be focusing on improving public transit. This argument sometimes comes from people opportunistically using transit as a cudgel but there’s also a kind of old-school city dweller that fundamentally understands transit in a way that they don’t for this new-fangled bike stuff. It’s worth remembering: in many cities, separated bike lanes are a relatively new idea. Just over a decade ago, Toronto was “considering” building some."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature

At The Cloisters, residents are sidestepping augmented reality (AR) dependency by relying on their natural memory. They remember names, scents and even how to care for the sick – skills that challenge the growing reliance on digital aids. This is one of many possible futures in the report "The Augmented City," which explores how AR could affect urban life.

Great job Greg Lindsay at Cornell Tech!

Check it out at https://buff.ly/4h7VhqN