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  1. This is what you see when you step out of a hotel facing ”the Brighton seafront”.

    A four lane stroad. It’s not a street, and it’s not a road. This effectively cuts all houses in central Brighton off from the seafront. Brighton, which is, and I quote Wikipedia: ”a seaside resort”.

    #brighton #stroad #cityplanning #carsociety

  2. This is what you see when you step out of a hotel facing ”the Brighton seafront”.

    A four lane stroad. It’s not a street, and it’s not a road. This effectively cuts all houses in central Brighton off from the seafront. Brighton, which is, and I quote Wikipedia: ”a seaside resort”.

    #brighton #stroad #cityplanning #carsociety

  3. This is what you see when you step out of a hotel facing ”the Brighton seafront”.

    A four lane stroad. It’s not a street, and it’s not a road. This effectively cuts all houses in central Brighton off from the seafront. Brighton, which is, and I quote Wikipedia: ”a seaside resort”.

    #brighton #stroad #cityplanning #carsociety

  4. This is what you see when you step out of a hotel facing ”the Brighton seafront”.

    A four lane stroad. It’s not a street, and it’s not a road. This effectively cuts all houses in central Brighton off from the seafront. Brighton, which is, and I quote Wikipedia: ”a seaside resort”.

    #brighton #stroad #cityplanning #carsociety

  5. Casey council rejects bid for Bethel New Life Christian Fellowship church in green wedge

    A new church proposed for protected land in Melbourne’s outer south-east is unlikely to go ahead, after councillors…
    #Australia #Melbourne #BethelNewLifeChristianFellowship #church #CityofCasey #CityPlanning #Cranbourne-FrankstonRoad #greenwedgezone #urbandevelopment #UrbanPlanning
    europesays.com/australia/97458/

  6. Most new developments feel like concrete boxes dropped from the sky. They ignore the street level and kill the city soul. We need to stop building for square meters and start building for people. #cityplanning #architecture #urbanism

  7. Most new developments feel like concrete boxes dropped from the sky. They ignore the street level and kill the city soul. We need to stop building for square meters and start building for people. #cityplanning #architecture #urbanism

  8. RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E

    Hey, Toronto - how about this?

    Stop building the City into nothing but a heat sink.

    A couple of parks and forested ravines - none in the city core - is not the same thing as an environmentally sustainable city. Or even an attractive Destination. The City is so afraid of creating placemaking for community and pedestrians (see the successful two block Church Street 'pilot project' to August 23 - which means the city will rip it out ASAP and will never do it again. When it should be permanent. Then add trees), inaction is the only action the City knows.

    #cityplanning #environment #destinations #placemaking #Canada #toronto

  9. RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E

    Hey, Toronto - how about this?

    Stop building the City into nothing but a heat sink.

    A couple of parks and forested ravines - none in the city core - is not the same thing as an environmentally sustainable city. Or even an attractive Destination. The City is so afraid of creating placemaking for community and pedestrians (see the successful two block Church Street 'pilot project' to August 23 - which means the city will rip it out ASAP and will never do it again. When it should be permanent. Then add trees), inaction is the only action the City knows.

    #cityplanning #environment #destinations #placemaking #Canada #toronto

  10. RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E

    Hey, Toronto - how about this?

    Stop building the City into nothing but a heat sink.

    A couple of parks and forested ravines - none in the city core - is not the same thing as an environmentally sustainable city. Or even an attractive Destination. The City is so afraid of creating placemaking for community and pedestrians (see the successful two block Church Street 'pilot project' to August 23 - which means the city will rip it out ASAP and will never do it again. When it should be permanent. Then add trees), inaction is the only action the City knows.

  11. RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E

    Hey, Toronto - how about this?

    Stop building the City into nothing but a heat sink.

    A couple of parks and forested ravines - none in the city core - is not the same thing as an environmentally sustainable city. Or even an attractive Destination. The City is so afraid of creating placemaking for community and pedestrians (see the successful two block Church Street 'pilot project' to August 23 - which means the city will rip it out ASAP and will never do it again. When it should be permanent. Then add trees), inaction is the only action the City knows.

    #cityplanning #environment #destinations #placemaking #Canada #toronto

  12. 📈 Imperviousness vs. Temperature: Calgary's Primary Thermodynamic Trend

    Mapping 313 Calgary communities reveals a linear relationship between % impervious surface area (Random Forest model on Summer 2025 Sentinel-1/2 & Landsat 8/9) and Land Surface Temperature (LST).

    📊 Key Data Points:
    • Cool Pole (<28°C, 0–15% impervious): Glenmore Park, Fish Creek (water & mature canopy).
    • Hot Pole (37–40°C, 85–95% impervious): Industrial (Franklin, Foothills) & residential (Marlborough, Rundle).
    • Thermal Slope: Every +10% impervious cover adds +1.2°C to +1.5°C to LST.

    🔬 Variance Drivers:
    Material albedo, building geometry (shading), topography, and canopy vs. lawn structure.

    💡 Takeaway:
    Impervious cover is the dominant microclimate driver. Urban planning—road width, building footprint, and canopy retention—is direct thermodynamic engineering.

    #Calgary #YYC #GIS #RemoteSensing #RStats #DataScience #UrbanHeat #CityPlanning #Microclimate #GreennessOfCalgary

  13. 📈 Imperviousness vs. Temperature: Calgary's Primary Thermodynamic Trend

    Mapping 313 Calgary communities reveals a linear relationship between % impervious surface area (Random Forest model on Summer 2025 Sentinel-1/2 & Landsat 8/9) and Land Surface Temperature (LST).

    📊 Key Data Points:
    • Cool Pole (<28°C, 0–15% impervious): Glenmore Park, Fish Creek (water & mature canopy).
    • Hot Pole (37–40°C, 85–95% impervious): Industrial (Franklin, Foothills) & residential (Marlborough, Rundle).
    • Thermal Slope: Every +10% impervious cover adds +1.2°C to +1.5°C to LST.

    🔬 Variance Drivers:
    Material albedo, building geometry (shading), topography, and canopy vs. lawn structure.

    💡 Takeaway:
    Impervious cover is the dominant microclimate driver. Urban planning—road width, building footprint, and canopy retention—is direct thermodynamic engineering.

    #Calgary #YYC #GIS #RemoteSensing #RStats #DataScience #UrbanHeat #CityPlanning #Microclimate #GreennessOfCalgary

  14. 📈 Imperviousness vs. Temperature: Calgary's Primary Thermodynamic Trend

    Mapping 313 Calgary communities reveals a linear relationship between % impervious surface area (Random Forest model on Summer 2025 Sentinel-1/2 & Landsat 8/9) and Land Surface Temperature (LST).

    📊 Key Data Points:
    • Cool Pole (<28°C, 0–15% impervious): Glenmore Park, Fish Creek (water & mature canopy).
    • Hot Pole (37–40°C, 85–95% impervious): Industrial (Franklin, Foothills) & residential (Marlborough, Rundle).
    • Thermal Slope: Every +10% impervious cover adds +1.2°C to +1.5°C to LST.

    🔬 Variance Drivers:
    Material albedo, building geometry (shading), topography, and canopy vs. lawn structure.

    💡 Takeaway:
    Impervious cover is the dominant microclimate driver. Urban planning—road width, building footprint, and canopy retention—is direct thermodynamic engineering.

    #Calgary #YYC #GIS #RemoteSensing #RStats #DataScience #UrbanHeat #CityPlanning #Microclimate #GreennessOfCalgary

  15. 📈 Imperviousness vs. Temperature: Calgary's Primary Thermodynamic Trend

    Mapping 313 Calgary communities reveals a linear relationship between % impervious surface area (Random Forest model on Summer 2025 Sentinel-1/2 & Landsat 8/9) and Land Surface Temperature (LST).

    📊 Key Data Points:
    • Cool Pole (<28°C, 0–15% impervious): Glenmore Park, Fish Creek (water & mature canopy).
    • Hot Pole (37–40°C, 85–95% impervious): Industrial (Franklin, Foothills) & residential (Marlborough, Rundle).
    • Thermal Slope: Every +10% impervious cover adds +1.2°C to +1.5°C to LST.

    🔬 Variance Drivers:
    Material albedo, building geometry (shading), topography, and canopy vs. lawn structure.

    💡 Takeaway:
    Impervious cover is the dominant microclimate driver. Urban planning—road width, building footprint, and canopy retention—is direct thermodynamic engineering.

    #Calgary #YYC #GIS #RemoteSensing #RStats #DataScience #UrbanHeat #CityPlanning #Microclimate #GreennessOfCalgary

  16. 📉 Comparing the Solid-to-Tree Ratio with the Land Surface Temperature (LST) data obtained in the previous phase of the study allows for a visual assessment of the relationship between surface sealing and summer surface heating across Calgary’s residential communities.
    🔥 The plot reveals a strong pattern for the vast majority of communities: a sharp increase in temperature occurs within the ratio range of 0 to 5. The Downtown Commercial Core stands out as a distinct outlier, where low LST values are driven by deep geometric shading from high-rise buildings. Additionally, neighborhoods such as Manchester, Seton, Redstone, Beltline, and Rangeview, among a few others, slightly diverge from the main trend.
    📊 Full methodology and additional charts via the link:👇
    datastory.org.ua/calgarys-micr

    #Calgary #OpenData #UrbanHeat #DataScience #ClimateResilience #YYC #Geoscience #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #RStats #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary

  17. 📉 Comparing the Solid-to-Tree Ratio with the Land Surface Temperature (LST) data obtained in the previous phase of the study allows for a visual assessment of the relationship between surface sealing and summer surface heating across Calgary’s residential communities.
    🔥 The plot reveals a strong pattern for the vast majority of communities: a sharp increase in temperature occurs within the ratio range of 0 to 5. The Downtown Commercial Core stands out as a distinct outlier, where low LST values are driven by deep geometric shading from high-rise buildings. Additionally, neighborhoods such as Manchester, Seton, Redstone, Beltline, and Rangeview, among a few others, slightly diverge from the main trend.
    📊 Full methodology and additional charts via the link:👇
    datastory.org.ua/calgarys-micr

    #Calgary #OpenData #UrbanHeat #DataScience #ClimateResilience #YYC #Geoscience #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #RStats #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary

  18. 📉 Comparing the Solid-to-Tree Ratio with the Land Surface Temperature (LST) data obtained in the previous phase of the study allows for a visual assessment of the relationship between surface sealing and summer surface heating across Calgary’s residential communities.
    🔥 The plot reveals a strong pattern for the vast majority of communities: a sharp increase in temperature occurs within the ratio range of 0 to 5. The Downtown Commercial Core stands out as a distinct outlier, where low LST values are driven by deep geometric shading from high-rise buildings. Additionally, neighborhoods such as Manchester, Seton, Redstone, Beltline, and Rangeview, among a few others, slightly diverge from the main trend.
    📊 Full methodology and additional charts via the link:👇
    datastory.org.ua/calgarys-micr

    #Calgary #OpenData #UrbanHeat #DataScience #ClimateResilience #YYC #Geoscience #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #RStats #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary

  19. Which Calgary neighborhoods are best built to withstand summer heatwaves? 🌳☀️

    To measure structural climate resilience across the city, I conducted a spatial analysis of 193 established residential communities, calculating the Solid-to-Tree Ratio—comparing bare artificial surfaces (asphalt, concrete, rooftops) directly against total tree canopy area.

    Here are the Top 10 most shade-rich and climate-resilient communities in Calgary:
    🟢 Queens Park Village — 0.3 (Just 0.3 ha of hard surface for every 1 ha of canopy!)
    🟢 Discovery Ridge — 0.5
    🟢 Roxboro — 0.5
    🟢 Wildwood — 0.6
    🟢 Rideau Park — 0.7
    🟢 Medicine Hill — 0.8
    🟢 Upper Mount Royal — 0.8
    🟢 Crestmont — 0.9
    🟢 Elbow Park — 0.9
    🟢 Shaganappi — 0.9

    👇 The full interactive dataset and study are here:
    datastory.org.ua/calgarys-micr

    #UrbanAnalytics #GeospatialData #RemoteSensing #GIS #UrbanForestry #CityPlanning #Calgary #DataScience #Microclimate #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary #RStats #FOSSGIS

  20. Which Calgary neighborhoods are best built to withstand summer heatwaves? 🌳☀️

    To measure structural climate resilience across the city, I conducted a spatial analysis of 193 established residential communities, calculating the Solid-to-Tree Ratio—comparing bare artificial surfaces (asphalt, concrete, rooftops) directly against total tree canopy area.

    Here are the Top 10 most shade-rich and climate-resilient communities in Calgary:
    🟢 Queens Park Village — 0.3 (Just 0.3 ha of hard surface for every 1 ha of canopy!)
    🟢 Discovery Ridge — 0.5
    🟢 Roxboro — 0.5
    🟢 Wildwood — 0.6
    🟢 Rideau Park — 0.7
    🟢 Medicine Hill — 0.8
    🟢 Upper Mount Royal — 0.8
    🟢 Crestmont — 0.9
    🟢 Elbow Park — 0.9
    🟢 Shaganappi — 0.9

    👇 The full interactive dataset and study are here:
    datastory.org.ua/calgarys-micr

    #UrbanAnalytics #GeospatialData #RemoteSensing #GIS #UrbanForestry #CityPlanning #Calgary #DataScience #Microclimate #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary #RStats #FOSSGIS

  21. Which Calgary neighborhoods are best built to withstand summer heatwaves? 🌳☀️

    To measure structural climate resilience across the city, I conducted a spatial analysis of 193 established residential communities, calculating the Solid-to-Tree Ratio—comparing bare artificial surfaces (asphalt, concrete, rooftops) directly against total tree canopy area.

    Here are the Top 10 most shade-rich and climate-resilient communities in Calgary:
    🟢 Queens Park Village — 0.3 (Just 0.3 ha of hard surface for every 1 ha of canopy!)
    🟢 Discovery Ridge — 0.5
    🟢 Roxboro — 0.5
    🟢 Wildwood — 0.6
    🟢 Rideau Park — 0.7
    🟢 Medicine Hill — 0.8
    🟢 Upper Mount Royal — 0.8
    🟢 Crestmont — 0.9
    🟢 Elbow Park — 0.9
    🟢 Shaganappi — 0.9

    👇 The full interactive dataset and study are here:
    datastory.org.ua/calgarys-micr

    #UrbanAnalytics #GeospatialData #RemoteSensing #GIS #UrbanForestry #CityPlanning #Calgary #DataScience #Microclimate #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary #RStats #FOSSGIS

  22. Of the bike channels I follow, I guess this is the one which preaches the less about urban planning. Plot twist, the YouTuber is a professional city planner.

    youtube.com/watch?v=gA0Y-uglI3U

    #Urbanism #CityPlanning

  23. Of the bike channels I follow, I guess this is the one which preaches the less about urban planning. Plot twist, the YouTuber is a professional city planner.

    youtube.com/watch?v=gA0Y-uglI3U

    #Urbanism #CityPlanning

  24. 🔥 Top 10 Calgary Communities with the Highest "Shade Deficit"

    To measure structural heat risks, I calculated the Solid-to-Tree Ratio—the ratio of bare artificial surfaces (asphalt, concrete, roofs) to total tree canopy area. A higher ratio means more heat-retaining concrete and less natural cooling.

    Here are the 10 most shade-deficient residential communities in Calgary:
    🔹 Downtown Commercial Core — 56.2 (56.2 ha of hard surfaces for every 1 ha of trees)
    🔹 Beltline — 24.6
    🔹 Redstone — 23.8
    🔹 Seton — 20.8
    🔹 Manchester — 17.7
    🔹 Rangeview — 16.8
    🔹 Symons Valley Ranch — 16.0
    🔹 Lower Mount Royal — 13.9
    🔹 Country Hills Village — 13.2
    🔹 Martindale — 12.4

    An interactive lookup table featuring area metrics and ratios for all 193 established Calgary residential communities is available via the link:
    datastory.org.ua/calgarys-micr

    #YYC #Calgary #CalgaryRealEstate #UrbanForestry #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #YycLiving #GreennessOfCalgary #MachineLearning #RStats #Alberta #Canada