Africa: China Is Helping Build Africa's Cities, but Its Approach Sidelines Local Urban Planners and Residents: [The Conversation Africa] As African cities experience some of the fastest urban growth rates in the world, China has become a major bilateral financier for urban infrastructure. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRnXJF #Africa #UrbanDevelopment #ChinaInAfrica #UrbanPlanning #Infrastructure
SEGREGATION BY DESIGN

SEGREGATION BY DESIGN
This has been a challenging time for local governments working to prevent loss of life and property from fire and flood #disaster #USPolitics #FEMA #flood #WildFire #UrbanPlanning https://www.npr.org/2026/03/30/nx-s1-5753765/fema-trump-extreme-weather-rural-pennsylvania
Gyaros Island of Exile – project “infrastructural”

Project “infrastructural” is a non judical, cognitive prothesis for our ‘psychotope’ to help us to work things out in our life.

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Reading through the article, I found out that The City of Parramatta, has created Australia’s only guidelines (not requirements) for child-friendly high-density living: https://www.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/noindex/2025-12/wslhd-cop-healthy-higher-density-living-for-families-with-chidlren-advocacy-planning-design-guide.pdf

#UrbanPlanning #ChildFriendlyCities

Does this tool exist?

A map where you plot in a "from" and "to" point and it gives you the distance in two different ways: One for the distance you have to travel by car, and one for the distance traveled by foot?

Edit: To be more clear: I'd like to see both ways of travel as lines on the map and as number of (kilo)meters at the same time, so it's easy to compare. Not switch between modes. Thanks!

#urbanism #UrbanPlanner #UrbanPlanning #map #OSM #OpenStreetMap #askfedi #tools

Hey #Calgary there's still time for you to speak up about the future of housing in our city!

Speak up! This Monday!

Tell them you oppose repealing blanket rezoning that is working to reduce housing costs, that is working to provide more diverse housing in areas that are already well connected to transit and bike infrastructure, that is working to prevent further loss of farmland, that is working to protect wetlands at the edge of the city.

Show up and speak up, friends.
#YYC #CalgarysFuture #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDevelopment #BikesNotCars #TrainsNotCars

🏡 Here is the data analysis for Calgary, Summer 2025. This chart shows the relationship between vegetation density (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST).

🔥 The data reveals a critical "tipping point": vegetation only starts effectively cooling the environment once it reaches a specific density threshold. Below this threshold (the left side of the curve), green spaces stay just as hot as the surrounding concrete.
Sparse or isolated trees don't act as air conditioners—they "burn" in the urban furnace right along with us.

❗ What does this mean for Calgary? Simply planting a few scattered trees isn't enough. To actually move the needle on temperature, we need dense, healthy green belts. Otherwise, it’s just a waste of water and resources.

🔗 Link to the research: https://www.datastory.org.ua/calgarys-summer-heat-a-2025-satellite-perspective/

#Calgary #UrbanHeatIsland #NDVI #ClimateChange #UrbanPlanning #DataScience #Environment #YYC #BigData #ScienceMatters #GreennessOfCalgary #ClimateOfCalgary #rstats #RemoteSensing #OpenScience