📺 "How Singapore’s Urban Design Makes Way for Wildlife | WILD HOPE"

🗒 "The island nation’s ambitious vision of becoming a “City in Nature” aims to integrate urban living with biodiversity and requires careful coordination between government leaders, designers of the urban landscape, and its citizens."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw1b_SviPyU&t=56

#nature #cityplanning #solarpunk #environment

☀️ Albedo vs. Surface Temperature: Why a "Bright" City Isn't Always Cooler

❗ Key findings from the current stage of research:
🔹 Vegetation (NDVI): Based on modeling results, biomass health accounted for approximately 40% of the variance in Calgary’s temperature regime in 2025.
🔹 Albedo (Reflectance): While it is commonly assumed that high surface reflectance reduces heat absorption, satellite data (broadband shortwave albedo) reveals a far more nuanced picture.

🔥 The Seton Anomaly
The scatter plot clearly shows a wide distribution of values. The community of Seton is a particularly striking example: despite its high average albedo (likely due to light-colored soils at construction sites and new roofing materials), the area remains in a "heat zone" (classified as Warm Background in my model).

❗ Albedo plays a role, but it is not the dominant factor in Calgary’s environment.

#Calgary #UrbanHeat #DataScience #ClimateResilience #YYC #Geoscience #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #RStats #APEGA #GreennesOfCalgary

Autonomous mobility is more than technology — it’s a catalyst for urban transformation. Our new blog explores how driverless vehicles can reduce private car ownership, optimize street use, and support safer, more connected cities. Read the full piece: https://wix.to/QiO2BP6

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It is a common belief that higher elevations are naturally cooler. In pristine landscapes, this rule holds firm. But what about urban environments? Humanity moves vast amounts of matter and energy, sometimes fundamentally altering the thermodynamic parameters of our habitat.

🛰️ I correlated summer Land Surface Temperature (LST) data across Calgary’s neighborhoods with the Canadian Medium-Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM). The chart below illustrates the relationship between "Average Elevation" and "Average Surface Temperature" specifically for established residential communities. As observed, this relationship is notably weak, even though a slight cooling trend persists. Based on my data analysis, elevation above sea level is not a key factor in cooling the city.

#Calgary #OpenData #UrbanHeat #DataScience #ClimateAction #YYC #GreennesOfCalgary #ClimateEquity #EnvironmentalEquity #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #RStats #Landsat #fossgis #DigitalElevationModel

The Conversation: How a new mapping tool helps Florida planners protect wildlife corridors as the state grows . “This online mapping platform helps decision-makers and conservationists understand how land across Florida fits together as a connected ecological network. Seeing this network alongside a suite of other related planning and conservation data can help them avoid impacts that would […]

Every time I see some player post a "Soviet Style city" on the Cities Skylines subreddits it always turns out to be an average European city with tons of greenery, parks and most things within walking distance.

Apparently "Having trees mixed in between white square housing blocks" = "communist".

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Cities: Erasure or Echo? The Urbanist Dilemma

Hiroshima's reconstruction balances memorializing the past with modern, forward-looking urban design. Learn how this city blends history and progress.

#HiroshimaRebuild, #UrbanDesign, #CityPlanning, #HistoricalPreservation, #ModernArchitecture

https://newsletter.tf/hiroshima-urban-design-past-and-future/