Mastodawn

The Super Bowl isn’t hosted by a city.

A city is built around it — temporarily.

Hotels become command centres. Hospitality turns into logistics. Public space becomes controlled infrastructure. Then it all disappears.

This piece looks at the Super Bowl as a one-week urban system — and why so few mega-events understand this properly.

🔗 https://benwebb.au/2026/02/08/the-city-that-appears-for-one-week-inside-the-super-bowls-hospitality-and-events-machine/

#ProjectManagement #UrbanSystems #MegaEvents #EventDelivery

The City That Appears for One Week: Inside the Super Bowl’s Hospitality and Events Machine

Super Bowl Sunday morning arrives, and something extraordinary is already underway at Levi Stadium. The host city feels different. Streets hum earlier. Hotels operate at full saturation. Restaurants extend hours. Private venues quietly transform into invitation-only worlds. By the time kickoff approaches, the Super Bowl has done something no other sporting event achieves at this […]

BEN WEBB

EPFL Mar 11, 2025

🏙️🌍 EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (@ENAC) has introduced a new master’s program in urban systems that will start this fall. The goal is to train experts who are capable of implementing sustainability-oriented approaches for urban planning and development.

#MasterProgram #UrbanSystems #EPFL

Read more 🔗: https://go.epfl.ch/dkF-en

New master's program encourages fresh approaches to urban planning

EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) has introduced a new master’s program in urban systems that will start this fall. The goal is to train experts who are capable of implementing sustainability-oriented approaches for urban planning and development.

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Feb 7, 2024

Two Thousand Years Of Garden Urbanism In The Upper Amazon
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #archeology #preHispanic #prehistoric #urban #LiDAR #UpanoValley #amazon #ecuador #Andes #fieldwork #earthobservation #buildings #roads #agriculture #drainage #terraces #roadnetwork #civilisation ##UpperAmazon #urbansystems #maya #agrarian

Manlio De Domenico Nov 17, 2023

Waiting for it, right?

#ComplexityThoughts issue #19 is coming: amazing new papers,from #ComplexSystems foundations to #BioInspiredComputing #CollectiveBehavior & #UrbanSystems

Unraveling complexity: building knowledge, one paper at a time!
Not yet subscribed? It's never too late, and it's 100% free.

https://manlius.substack.com/p/complexity-thoughts-issue-19

The next #ComplexityThoughts drawn by an AI 👇

Complexity Thoughts: Issue #19

Unraveling complexity: building knowledge, one paper at a time

MultiSector Dynamics Jul 31, 2023

Hello Mastodon from the #MultiSectorDynamics Community of Practice! We are a multi-disciplinary collective of natural and social scientists, engineers, economists, & other researchers working at the interface of human & natural systems.

We will post on new research & upcoming events related to #EnergyTransitions, #UrbanSystems, #ClimateAdaptation, #HumanSystemsModeling, #UncertaintyModeling, & other topics in #MultiSectorDynamics!

For more info on our community, see https://multisectordynamics.org/

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Manlio De Domenico May 22, 2023

And here we go!

The new issue (n° 11) of #ComplexityThoughts is out!

#NetworkScience #UrbanSystems, #NetworkNeuroscience #OriginOfLife

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@networkscience @complexsystems @neuroscience

Complexity Thoughts | Manlio De Domenico, Ph.D. | Substack

Making sense of reality and sharing my view on networks, from cells to societies. Complexity, network science and artificial intelligence for public health and a sustainable society. Applications from systems biology/medicine, to ecology and epidemics. Click to read Complexity Thoughts, by Manlio De Domenico, Ph.D., a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Manlio De Domenico May 19, 2023

The new issue (n° 11) of #ComplexityThoughts will be out on Monday @ 5pm

If you are curious: from #NetworkScience to #UrbanSystems, #NetworkNeuroscience & #OriginOfLife in this issue (see images!)

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Complexity Thoughts | Manlio De Domenico, Ph.D. | Substack

Prajal Pradhan Feb 13, 2023

Five interesting #vacancies @BauhausErde for researchers on #builtenvironment
- #Carbon accounting
- Transformation opportunities and barriers
- #Sustainable #forestry and #landuse
- #regenerative #urbansystems
- #CircularEconomy
https://www.bauhauserde.org/jobs

Bauhaus Earth - contact

If you have an idea, feedback or suggestion that can accelerate the transformation of the built environment towards sustainability and inclusiveness, please get in touch.

Climate Action California Jan 25, 2023

To achieve long-term sustainability, urban systems must tackle social justice and equity | Phys.org / Georgia Institute of Technology https://phys.org/news/2023-01-long-term-sustainability-urban-tackle-social.html

#UrbanSystems #Sustainability #Climate #SocialJustice

To achieve long-term sustainability, urban systems must tackle social justice and equity

Inclusivity and understanding past policies and their effects on underserved and marginalized communities must be part of urban planning, design, and public policy efforts for cities.

Phys.org

louisa holmes Oct 30, 2022

#introductions just made the switch - health geographer and demographer studying health inequity, substance use, environmental racism, urban geo.

#AcademicMastadon #geography #demography #publichealth #academia #geospatial #healthequity #substanceuse #addiction #healthgeography #researchmethods #environmentaljustice #environmentalracism #humangeo #antifascism #urbansystems #yimby