Urban planning

From the moment I heard about tech billionaires’ weird plans to create a bustling new city in the heart of California’s Solano County, I was preoccupied with one basic question: Who is actually going to run this thing? Why Bitcoin won’t reach $1,000,000Libertarian dreams of creating a new community from scratch are all well and good but, at the end of the day, you can’t operate a municipality of any real size without a team of boring, dysfunctional bureaucrats to decide what the local zoning laws are and how to spend the…

That could make the I-10 blaze complicating LA traffic this week the third fire in the area involving leftover hand sanitizer. A different pallet yard storing sanitizer erupted in flames in downtown Los Angeles in January. And in 2021, a notoriously noxious smell plaguing the LA County town of Carson was linked by officials to a massive fire at a lot storing thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer.As WIRED reported in June, the US Food and Drug Administration lifted regulations on hand sanitizer during the height of the…

To demonstrate its technology, Epic Cleantec, a water recycling company, has even brewed a beer called Epic OneWater Brew with purified gray water from a 40-story San Francisco apartment building.With the mega-drought and water crisis on the Colorado, the Rio Grande, and other Western rivers, “extreme decentralization” is making its way to other places in the American West, including Colorado, Texas, and Washington State. And decentralized projects are ongoing in Japan, India, and Australia. There are serious pressures on…

In 2022, a report examined just how susceptible UK houses are to overheating. Commissioned by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), a public body that advises the UK government, the report found that 55 percent of UK homes already have bedrooms that overheat in hot weather. In a world heated by 2 degrees Celsius, the modeling projected that every home outside of Scotland would have unacceptably warm bedrooms, and 17 percent of homes—mostly in London—would have living areas and bedrooms that were too warm. If the world…

Lauren Goode: Do you mean you personally or the collective you? Gideon Lichfield: I mean, it's always about me, isn't it? Lauren Goode: Of course. Gideon Lichfield: So anyway, I ride a bicycle, I use public transport. I don't own a car.Lauren Goode: But you own a motorcycle though.Gideon Lichfield: Thank you for the street cred, but I keep it in storage most of the time.Lauren Goode: OK, so here's why you should care about parking.Gideon Lichfield: I'm all ears.Lauren Goode: This isn't just about the future of parking,…

Ripping down an existing structure means wasting all the energy that went into the creation of its materials. The destruction itself also requires energy, and the waste materials must be moved to landfills. Add that to the energy and emissions required to make, transport, and assemble materials for a brand-new building, and it’s easy to see how making use of what has already been built is the more environmentally sustainable option. Susan Piedmont-Palladino, director of the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center at…

Last Updated: May 30, 2023, 11:43 ISTBhopal Metro - Representative Image (Photo: Railway Technology)The Bhopal Metro project represents the city's progressive mindset, its eagerness to embrace modernity, and its commitment to sustainable urban planningIn a remarkable achievement, the city of Bhopal witnessed a significant milestone as 500 meters of metro track were successfully laid down. With just 3.5 kilometers remaining, the completion of this ambitious project is now within touching distance.The ongoing metro…

Remote work revealed that core areas of San Francisco and other cities are overreliant on offices. It’s time to reimagine what—and who—downtowns are for. Remote work revealed that core areas of San Francisco and other cities are overreliant on offices. It’s time to reimagine what—and who—downtowns are for. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is…

For almost two decades after it opened in 1913, Michigan’s Central Station was a major stop on the nation’s interurban rail network. Then the private car took over the US, and Detroit declined. By the 1970’s, white residents were fleeing to the suburbs, auto jobs were leaving the state and the country, and local corruption soared.  At the turn of the century, the train depot and the 18-story office towers behind it had been abandoned for 30 years, the faded exterior looming over Detroit’s Corktown and Mexicantown…

I’m tired of people seeing uniqueness as something that’s done in the West. It’s making our world poor if we’re just Eurocentric in our focus. If you just wait for the West to inspire, to create, and to do good in tech, what’s your added value to the world?Your designs frequently make use of natural, soft lighting. How did you come to appreciate the value of that? Something that was negative for me was sitting in classrooms where it was dark when there’s abundant sunlight outside. I didn’t like it, and I could see a way…