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Mr. Podunkian revealed the Steam store page for their upcoming city life simulator, Sunkissed City, which is coming to PC sometime in late 2024. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the handheld version of The Urbz. Nor does it look like the console version of The Urbz. It looks more like Stardew Valley, which makes sense because Mr. Podunkian previously worked at Stardew Valley developer Concerned Ape. If you liked Stardew Valley, but felt like it needed more concrete, then this might be for you. In Sunkissed City,…

Last Updated: January 26, 2024, 10:23 ISTKinetic Green to Launch Electric Version of Iconic 'Luna' Two-Wheeler. (Photo: AutoX)Kinetic Green revives iconic Luna as E-Luna, an electric two-wheeler for urban and rural India.Kinetic Green has revealed its plans to reintroduce the beloved ‘Luna’ brand in a modern electric form, named the E-Luna.The company has announced that orders for the new electric two-wheeler will kick from today onwards, requiring a token amount of just Rs 500. Interested buyers can reserve their E-Luna…

Urban agriculture is expected to be an important feature of 21st century sustainability and can have many benefits for communities and cities, including providing fresh produce in neighborhoods with few other options.Among those benefits, growing food in backyards, community gardens or urban farms can shrink the distance fruits and vegetables have to travel between producers and consumers – what's known as the "food mile" problem. With transportation's greenhouse gas emissions eliminated, it's a small leap to assume that…

Urban garden in Nantes, France. Credit: Baptiste GrardUrban agriculture, while offering significant social and environmental benefits, has a carbon footprint considerably higher than conventional farming, according to a University of Michigan-led study. Strategic improvements in crop selection, infrastructure longevity, and waste utilization are suggested to enhance its sustainability.A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon…

Multimodal public transport networks in Hong Kong. The six subsystems are MTR (yellow), light rail (cyan), franchised buses (red), green minibuses (green), ferries (black) and trams (blue). Credit: Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39999-w Cities are fortifying the resilience of their urban infrastructure networks to tackle potential unforeseen disruptions, particularly due to extreme weather resulting…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Crime is often perceived as an urban phenomenon whereas rural life is viewed as more bucolic, but Timothy Bryan is testing these ideas. An assistant professor in the University of Toronto Mississauga Department of Sociology, Bryan analyzes how urban and rural residents perceive and imagine street safety. "Often,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Across the African continent—from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa—widespread protests have taken place to demand police reform in the wake of police misconduct and brutality. A continent-wide survey done in 2022 shows very low trust in the police and a prevailing perception of the police as the most corrupt among key institutions. …

Multidisciplinary approaches to urban archaeology provide a wealth of information about how cities shape, and are shaped by, their environment. Credit: Michelle O'Reilly Cities play a key role in climate change and biodiversity and are one of the most recognizable features of the Anthropocene. They also accelerate innovation and shape social networks, while perpetuating and intensifying inequalities. Today over half of all…

People looking for an ebike alternative can already choose between electric scooters, skateboards and roller skates. With the debut of the Skwheel One system, they now have another option – electric skis.Designed by Parisian startup Skwheel (pronounced "Skywheel"), the Skwheel One package consists of two motorized "skis" along with a wireless handheld remote.Each ski has one wheel at the front and one at the back, along with a carbon composite deck, front and rear running lights, a quick-swappable lithium-ion battery and…

Quick commerce, where groceries and other items are delivered in a short span, mostly under 20 minutes, was able to win “public validation”, especially in metro cities, in 2023. However, the coming year will be a test of profitability, market depth and adaptability, senior executives, investors and analysts said. ETtechThe sector seesawed in 2023. The beginning of the year brought widespread doubts about the unit economics of the system, alongside questions around whether customers even wanted a service like it. On top of…