#urban-planning — Public Fediverse posts

#Virginia sues to block #Trump from building his idiotic #arch

#Arlington County’s all #Democratic board argues that the admin bypassed a key review process in their push to begin work on the 250-foot-tall arch.

The lawsuit argues that the Trump admin failed to adequately evaluate potential #environmental impacts of the project as required by federal #law.

#CityPlanning #UrbanPlanning #Architecture #narcissism #greed #envy #stink #armory #arsenal #snipers #drones
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/10/08/virginia-county-sues-block-trump-building-his-arch/

Berlin mapped 900,000 street trees. Now 12,000 people water them.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/10/berlin-mapped-900000-street-trees-now-12000-people-water-them/

Berlin mapped 900,000 street trees. Now 12,000 people water them.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/10/berlin-mapped-900000-street-trees-now-12000-people-water-them/

London’s Oxford Street gets fully pedestrianized this month: here’s what that means

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/10/londons-oxford-street-gets-fully-pedestrianized-this-month-heres-what-that-means/

London’s Oxford Street gets fully pedestrianized this month: here’s what that means

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/10/londons-oxford-street-gets-fully-pedestrianized-this-month-heres-what-that-means/

Damn. I mean, that’s — at least in his own deranged mind — his sweet spot electorate…

#Flightattendants' #union flags #safety concerns over #Trump dumbass #arch

#law #megalomania #narcissism #vanity #CityPlanning #UrbanPlanning #architecture
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-arch-reagan-7b5170c9b670119a0cca39a6e92c8ddb?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

where le corbusier’s plan voisin sought to organize paris, chtcheglov chose to drift
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/le-corbusier-plan-voisin-paris-ivan-chtcheglov-ville-radieuse-formulary-new-urbanism/

Urban planners must sometimes say No to #architects !

#Urbanplanning

Foreign-Backed Data Centers Alarm Tokyo Residents

Residents in districts across the Tokyo metropolitan area have raised concerns about large-scale data centers being built or planned near their homes. Data centers are facilities packed with servers and network…
#Japan #JP #Tokyo #AI. #datacenters #energy #Foreigninvestment #METI #news #Osaka #politics&security #realestate #tech #tokyonews #urbanplanning #東京 #東京都
https://www.alojapan.com/1549753/foreign-backed-data-centers-alarm-tokyo-residents/

https://www.alojapan.com/1549753/foreign-backed-data-centers-alarm-tokyo-residents/ Foreign-Backed Data Centers Alarm Tokyo Residents #AI #DataCenters #energy #ForeignInvestment #METI #news #Osaka #Politics&Security #RealEstate #tech #Tokyo #TokyoNews #UrbanPlanning #東京 #東京都 Residents in districts across the Tokyo metropolitan area have raised concerns about large-scale data centers being built or planned near their homes. Data centers are facilities packed with servers and networking equipment that store and process the

RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/117395089237394051

#HolbornAndStPancras #UKPol #UKpolitics #Euston #UrbanPlanning

https://www.europesays.com/3294091/ What’s Really Happening With Immigration #history #Immigration #law #SocialSciences #UCLAMagazine #UrbanPlanning #world

https://www.europesays.com/3294091/ What’s Really Happening With Immigration #history #Immigration #law #SocialSciences #UCLAMagazine #UrbanPlanning #world

@ajroach42 40 years of playing Sim City confirms this.
The trick is to get the money cheat and build subways everywhere.

#SimCity #UrbanPlanning #traffic

Foreign-Backed Data Centers Alarm Tokyo Residents

Residents in districts across the Tokyo metropolitan area have raised concerns about large-scale data centers being built or…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Tokyo #AI #datacenters #energy #foreigninvestment #METI #Osaka #politics&security #realestate #Tech #urbanplanning
https://www.europesays.com/japan/102568/

@heigit recently released free high-resolution shade data for European cities, along with two analysis tools built for the planning level.

Worth a look if you're building routing or active-mobility apps and want heat exposure as a real input instead of a proxy.

#OpenStreetMap #GIS #UrbanPlanning
https://heigit.org/shadow-data-for-climate-resilient-urban-planning/

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971230

#HackerNews #flattestroute #SFliving #urbanplanning #navigationsolutions #techinnovation

DeafCity Hub and the fight to build a space where sign language can live and thrive

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/10/deafcity-hub-and-the-fight-to-build-a-space-where-sign-language-can-live-and-thrive/

DeafCity Hub and the fight to build a space where sign language can live and thrive

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/10/deafcity-hub-and-the-fight-to-build-a-space-where-sign-language-can-live-and-thrive/

New York City should carefully measure a new tree

https://blog.willmeye.rs/new-york-city-should-carefully-measure-a-new-tree/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940877

#HackerNews #NewYorkCity #trees #urbanplanning #sustainability #environment

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

https://www.radical-elements.com/minor-epiphanies/city-building-games-have-a-soul-problem-pt2

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945323

#HackerNews #CityBuildingGames #SoulProblem #GameDesign #UrbanPlanning #IndieGames

🚧 Oh, the New York Times is breaking hard-hitting news again with a 12-year saga of blocky urban planning! 🏙️ Who knew a football coach was secretly moonlighting as a pixelated city planner while the rest of us were just wasting our lives with jobs that actually exist in reality? 🤦‍♂️
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/ #HackerNews #UrbanPlanning #NewYorkTimes #FootballCoach #Satire #CityLife #HackerNews #ngated

A middle aged white man has been sent to #prison for 15 years after being found guilty of blowing up #ULEZ #CCTV #ANPR #cameras around #London and endangering the general public in doing so

His (quite long!) sentence includes an element where the Courts considered the act as #terrorism

#RoadSafety #UrbanPlanning #Environment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6gr8j0n9g7ro

Nach mehr als einem Jahrzehnt Planung ist es so weit: Das Sellerhäuser Viadukt ist fertig saniert und begrünt. Oberbürgermeister Burkhard Jung (SPD) und Baubürgermeister Thomas Dienberg (Grüne) gaben die ehemalige Bahntrasse am Nachmittag offiziell zum Flanieren, Joggen und Fahrradfahren frei. Das Viadukt ist Teil des "Parkbogen Ost", der den Leipziger Osten als grünes Band umspannen soll.

#Leipzig #ParkbogenOst #urbanplanning #Stadtentwicklung #BurkhardJung

Rapid Urban Land Uplift Enhanced By Crustal Faults During Groundwater Recovery
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03915-z <-- shared paper
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https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/361090354/nzs-coastal-cities-are-sinking-pausing-groundwater-extraction-could-save-them-new-study-says <-- shared media article, ‘NZ's coastal cities are sinking – but pausing groundwater extraction could save them...’
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H/T @Jesse Kearse |Mana Tūāpapa Fellow in Earth Science
“🌍 Faults fighting sea-level rise?
[Their] new paper shows how faults in Osaka 🇯🇵 act as underground dams, trapping groundwater and driving rapid land uplift!
🛰️ The uplift also reveals hidden faults beneath the city…”
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“Urban land subsidence driven by groundwater extraction is widespread, but the processes governing how groundwater recovery translates into spatially variable surface uplift remain poorly understood. [The authors] use[d] satellite geodesy and multi-decadal groundwater observations to measure vertical land motion in Greater Osaka, Japan, where aquifers are intersected by a dense network of crustal faults. [They] observe[d] widespread surface uplift at rates up to 12 mm/year, organized into distinct domains separated by sharp boundaries. Uplift rates vary abruptly across domain boundaries, which coincide with mapped faults. Where no faults are mapped, abrupt spatial changes in uplift rate suggest the presence of previously unrecognized buried faults. Uplift rates are positively correlated with groundwater-level rise in wells screened at depths up to 600 metres, while deformation modelling indicates dominant uplift sources are shallower than 500 metres. [Their] analysis suggests crustal faults act as hydraulic barriers to lateral groundwater flow, localising vertical land motion during aquifer recovery, with implications for groundwater management, infrastructure stability, and land-use planning in urban basins worldwide...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #Japan #Osaka #groundwater #extraction #subsidence #recovery #recharge #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #satellite #geodesy #elevation #monitoring #vertical #landmotion #aquifer #waterresources #fault #crustal #geology #uplift #hydraulicbarriers #faultgouge #flow #watermanagement #infrastructure #risk #hazard #damage #landuse #planning #policy #urban #urbanplanning

https://www.europesays.com/dk/177157/ Berlin’s zoning ordinance updates get public review | Local #AndRegionalEconomics #berlin #EnvironmentalDesign #Germany #housing #LandAdministration #LandUse #organization #planning #rural #SpatialPlanning #urban #UrbanPlanning #urbanization #zoning

Berlin’s zoning ordinance updates get public review | Local

BERLIN — City planners presented a proposed update to the Berlin Zoning Ordinance at a forum last week…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Berlin #andregionaleconomics #environmentaldesign #housing #landadministration #landuse #Organization #Planning #rural #spatialplanning #urban #Urbanplanning #urbanization #zoning
https://www.europesays.com/germany/101244/

https://www.cyclingeu.com/963649/only-6-of-copenhagen-cyclists-break-the-traffic-law/ Only 6% of Copenhagen Cyclists Break the Traffic Law #Bicycling #BicyclingDenmark #Biking #Cycling #Denmark #documentary #LifeSizedCity #MikaelColvilleAndersen #TvSeries #UrbanPlanning #urbanism

🎩 Ah, the noble quest for the Platonic ideal of city shapes, where urban planners play God with their Lego cities, only to be thwarted by the mighty "Enable JavaScript" button. 🖥️ You'd think after centuries, we'd master urban planning, but alas, we've not even mastered our browser settings. 🍪
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23998083261458842 #urbanplanning #LegoCities #browserissues #citydesign #JavaScript #HackerNews #ngated

What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23998083261458842

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858643

#HackerNews #urbanplanning #citydesign #urbanform #distanceanalysis #shapecity

Improvements in London Air Quality Shows Why Cities Need More Safe Cycling Infrastructure

"The bigger challenge is often giving people somewhere they feel comfortable riding.

Build a painted line beside fast-moving traffic and many people will quite reasonably decide cycling isn’t for them. Build a connected network of protected, legible routes and the potential audience changes dramatically."

https://momentummag.com/incredibly-improvements-in-london-air-quality-shows-why-cities-need-more-safe-cycling-infrastructure/

#cycling #London #UrbanPlanning