#cityplanning — Public Fediverse posts
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Several honored by Nebraska Statewide Arboretum https://www.allforgardening.com/1938422/several-honored-by-nebraska-statewide-arboretum/ #agriculture #biology #botany #business #CityPlanning #education #gardening #GardeningNebraska #Industry #JobMarket #Nebraska #politics #TheEconomy #University
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The friction-free design principles at the heart of Japan's busiest cities
#urbanplanning #cityplanning #builtenvironment #citylife
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260805-four-simple-rules-behind-japans-most-liveable-cities
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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117053704354933500
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
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📈 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
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📉 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:👇
https://www.datastory.org.ua/calgarys-microclimatic-anatomy-what-lies-beneath-the-citys-green-appearance/#Calgary #OpenData #UrbanHeat #DataScience #ClimateResilience #YYC #Geoscience #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #RStats #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary
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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:
https://www.datastory.org.ua/calgarys-microclimatic-anatomy-what-lies-beneath-the-citys-green-appearance/#UrbanAnalytics #GeospatialData #RemoteSensing #GIS #UrbanForestry #CityPlanning #Calgary #DataScience #Microclimate #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary #RStats #FOSSGIS
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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.
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🔥 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 — 12.4An interactive lookup table featuring area metrics and ratios for all 193 established Calgary residential communities is available via the link:
https://www.datastory.org.ua/calgarys-microclimatic-anatomy-what-lies-beneath-the-citys-green-appearance/#YYC #Calgary #CalgaryRealEstate #UrbanForestry #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #YycLiving #GreennessOfCalgary #MachineLearning #RStats #Alberta #Canada
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📺 Inside Singapore's Edible Skyscrapers
🗒 "Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Singapore where he explores the movement to turn that city into an edible garden paradise."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkyuUfzoMBo&t=860
#solarpunk #gardening #cityplanning #engineering #foodforest
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It sounds like anyone thinking about zoning reform would benefit from reading this book.
#zoning #cityplanning #Vancouverhttps://spacing.ca/vancouver/2026/07/14/book-review-an-even-better-way-to-zone/
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🔥 It looks like it's time to lock in the current version of the machine learning model (LULC v.6.0). Validation results on an independent test dataset (Confusion Matrix) demonstrate the excellent predictive power of the algorithm:
🔹 Overall Accuracy: 98.29% (95% CI: 98.16% – 98.41%) with a No Information Rate = 60.28% (p-value < 2.2e-16).
🔹 Cohen’s Kappa: 0.9691, confirming high classification reliability even with severe class imbalance.
The model shows a very low error rate for non-vegetated areas (Solid, Balanced Accuracy 99.72%) and water bodies (Water, 99.75%), but expectedly faces challenges at the boundaries between the Lawn (open grass) and Park (sparse trees) classes.
Currently, I am moving on to an advanced analysis of the drivers shaping Urban Heat Islands (UHI) in Calgary and preparing a publication for my website. Stay tuned for updates!
#Calgary #OpenData #UrbanHeat #DataScience #ClimateResilience #YYC #Geoscience #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #RStats #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary -
RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116892063101116156
:blobaww: :blobcat_fine: absolutely love this
"Technique known as #nemawashi combines centuries of horticultural knowledge with modern engineering and reflects Japan's long-standing respect for nature and cultural heritage." #trees #savethetrees #cityplanning
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📺 Heatwaves Are Frying Our Cities. The Solution Looks STUNNING
🗒 "This summer's heatwaves turned modern cities into ovens, and while everyone scrambles for air-conditioning, the real fix has been sitting in front of us for thousands of years."