Ausfühlicher Überblicksartikel zur Begrünung von Dächern mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Entwicklungen in Wien. Flache Dächer auf neuen Gebäuden müssen in Wien begrünt sein; die Begrünung wird von der Stadt gefördert. Die Begrünung hat auch positive Auswirkungen auf die Biodiversität. Als exemplarisches Projekt wird die Biotope City am Wienerberg genannt. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000247676/laut-fachleuten-braucht-es-mehr-gruen-auf-unseren-daechern

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for - commons - new definition - pathological conservatism - new definition - benign conservatism - new definition - beneficial conservatism - adjacency - citizen assemblies - cosmolocal - community organization - horizontal and vertical decision-making as cosmolocal - Fair Share Commons - FSC - pathological conservatism - hypocrisy of modern conservatism that cannot acknowledge first nations - TPF as a vehicle for citizen assembly in each ward and district of a city - to - Youtube - Trump won, now what? - Roger Hallam - to - Substack article - - A global history of societal regulation - metacrisis, polycrisis - role of the commons and cosmolocal coordination - Michel Bauwens

adjacency - between - citizen assemblies - cosmolocal - community organization - citizen assemblies - horizontal and vertical - Fair Share Commons - FSC - town anywhere - TPF - one per city ward or district - progress traps - wicked problem - pathological conservatism - deep conservatism - ECOnomy is a subset of ECOlogy - Modernity has many forms of shallow, pathological conservatism - Indigenous and first nations peoples practice deep, beneficial conservatism - adjacency relationship - One of the biggest progress traps is pathological conservatism when - a technology has become popular and ubiquitous but an unintended consequence becomes exposed - In that case, incumbents who profit from the established supply chain will defend it at great cost, even if the harm it causes becomes increasingly obvious. - They will do this until it reaches a point that the harm is so great that it can no longer be defended. - Often, great harm is done before that point is reached, if it is reached. - Misinformation, gaslighting and fascism can emerge as a form of pathological conservatism in an attempt to preserve the harmful aspect of the status quo. - Fossil fuels, internal combustion engines and the climate change they cause are an example of this, creating a wicked problem in which those trying to solve the problem are also contributing to it - Citizen assemblies are a bottom up response and counterweight to centralized power that is driving pathological conservatism - In contrast to the pathological conservatism, environmental awareness is a practice of benign and beneficial conservatism - the conservation of our natural environment - In fact, many who call themselves conservatives and nationalists are hypocritical because - if they went further in their conservativism logic, they would have to acknowledge the first nations people who came before them - The natural resources that were part of indigenous peoples lives for millenia that colonialists have built their entire fortune on represents even greater degree of conservatism, yet the hypocrisy is that - modern conservatives often cannot acknowledge this reality of a deeper form of conservatism as it threatens their false entitlement - This brings into question their claim of practicing conservatism - pathological conservatives act as if the ECOlogy is subordinate to the ECOnomy when in fact, the ECOnomy cannot exist without a functioning ECOlogy - citizen assemblies can be implemented in each ward and district of a large city - On top of these, Fair Share Commons and community cooperatives can be built as formal structures to drive specific projects - In order for participatory democracy to work effectively requires education on Deep Humanity and conflict resolution, otherwise risks low resiliency due to internal conflicts and derailment of vision - In order to scale, it requires both horizontal and vertical components or organization. This implies a cosmolocal strategy: - horizontal decision-making with local group is local, whilst - vertical decision-making with non-local groups based on broader issues is cosmo - A global Tipping Point Festival that employs social tipping point theory to emerge a global network of citizen assemblies / commons assemblies / people's assemblies in each ward and district of a city to relocate healthy power back to the people

to - Youtube - Trump won, now what? - a love-based approach to replace power-based approach for dealing with fascism and polarization - Roger Hallam - https://hyp.is/wUDpaKsAEe-DM9fteMUtzw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiKWCHAcS7E - Substack article - A global history of societal regulation - metacrisis, polycrisis - role of the commons and cosmolocal coordination - Michel Bauwens - https://hyp.is/wlywbqkTEe-ROXfhSmA3bA/4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/a-global-history-of-societal-regulation

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11:11 :-) Mathew Forstater University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC)

https://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/graz/18692654/heuer-schon-17-tropennaechte-was-die-neue-messstation-aussagt

Is it possible to be above one's own system of beliefs and ideas? Doesn't the system make them a product of it? Evolving from a base at best?

The idea sounds lovely, but is it possible anthropologically?

Check Fink to see where the seeds of this idea of linking education and democracy sprouted...

TL's references for this:<br /> Leon Fink, Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 13–14; Robert B. Fisher, “The People’s Institute of New York City, 1897–1934: Culture, Progressive Democracy, and the People” (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1974), 1, 9; Hugh S. Moorhead, “The Great Books Movement,” (PhD diss. University of Chicago, 1964), 110–111.

for - cape town water crisis - day zero - day zero - mexico city - day zero - bogota - water crisis

Bericht über eine Diskussion mit Aktivisten und einer Vertreterin der Pariser Bürgermeisterin zur écologie populaire (Ökologie des Volks). Die Veranstaltung gehörte zur von der Libération veranstalteten Climat Libé Tour. Entscheidend ist der Gedanke,dass sich, wenn man von den Lebensbedingungen ausgeht, nicht zwischen ökologischen und sozialen Fragen unterscheiden lässt. Das spielt zum Beispiel eine Rolle bei der Forderung nach qualitätvoller lokaler Lebensmittelversorgung. https://www.liberation.fr/forums/il-ny-a-aucune-difference-entre-justice-sociale-et-justice-climatique-au-climat-libe-tour-reflexions-autour-dun-front-commun-20240331_CL6W4SBSJNFOLCYOSLEHB5AMJE/

This adds additional weight to the concept of "city upon a hill" which was highlighted in a speech by John Winthrop.

depopulation of 95% useless eaters is no picnic ...<br /> cities will be turned into prisons, and all city people will starve

city people are shitty people<br /> south park tried to warn us

Owners Paddy Calistro and Scott McAuley donated their publishing company Angel City Press to the Los Angeles Public Library in 2024.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/la-public-library-book-publisher.html

for - resource - climate change performance index - how well a city is adapted to the climate crisis

• for: recommendation - SONEC - fractal city strategy

• recommendation: SONEC fractal city strategy

  • For everyone in Living Cities Earth group, we can each start SONECs in every ward of our respective city.
  • For my city of Cape Town, there are 150+ wards
  • There are neighboring rich, middle class and disenfranchised communities
  • One of the major projects will be to develop working relationships between the disenfranchised and neighboring middle class or wealthy communities
  • Indyweb / Indranet people-centered, interpersonal open learning system can be employed

• for: SONEC - expanding globally, Global North South sister city program

• comment

  • For globally expanding SONEC, it is also important to consider other cultural values outside the European lens and to also address the structural inequalities of colonialism
  • For a globalized SONEC, one suggestion is to create a sister city program based on reparation from colonial injustice and integrating a climate justice component

Kedvenc Spotom

• for: regenerative cities, living cities, urban permaculture, Pocket hoods, relocalization, Mark Lakeman, Portland villages, people-oriented city-villages, city-village, pocket neighborhood, communititecture, urban planning, urban planning - city villages

• summary

  • Mark gives a tour of his work at his company, Communittecture in applying permaculture principles to redesign communities in urban environments.
  • The central focus is designing based on commons principles of actually creating lived environments where healthy socialization is a primary design objective.
  • The design involves creating common areas that residents can share, from common food gardens to many mini-parks and recreation areas where families can gather.
  • The modern community has alienated socialization, creating groups of juxtapositioned strangers. There are two different design categories:
    • retrofitting existing neighborhoods
    • designing greenfield new neighborhoods

• reference

  • Communititecture home page
    • https://www.communitecture.net/about.html

Wien- Energie und OMV haben das gemeinsame Geothermie-Unternehmen Deeep gegründet. Es soll 2040 etwa ein Viertel der Wiener Fernwärme liefern. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000193881/wien-energie-und-omv-spannen-kraefte-bei-tiefengeothermie-zusammen

• for: redistrict cities - based on watersheds, watershed - urban permaculture, urban climate action, climate action - urban scale

• summary

  • old communities were designed around watersheds. New cities are designed around arbitrary grids.
  • creating new districts based around their respective watersheds, an idea called watershed democracy makes sense
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKGvj50r_6w
      • then reservoirs can be customized to each respective watershed
        • neighborhoods can be redesigned around each watershed:
          • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R-fAc0wl10&t=5s

Die Stadt Paris hat zum ersten Mal mit Einwohner:innen und Medien eine Hitzewelle mit Temperaturen bis zu 50 Grad simuliert in den nächsten Wochen soll eine neue Version des Pariser Klimaplans publiziert werden. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/exercice-de-simulation-bienvenue-a-paris-en-2032-sous-50-c-20231014_YZNQTOTVHZFSJEF3NBTLI5ME5A/

Bangladeshs Hauptstadt Dhaka ist von der Erhitzung besonders schwer betroffen. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit von Hitzewellen hat sich verdreißigfacht. Der Verlust von Grünflächen führt zu Hitzeinseln. Viele Bewohner:innen wurden von Folgen der Klimakatastrphe in die Stadt getrieben. Arbeitende mit wenig Einkommen leiden besonders unter Hitze und Verdienstausfall. Interview mit Bushra Afreen, Kopruduzentin des Films Moshari, die jetzt chief heat officer für Nord-Dhaka ist.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/oct/03/only-rich-can-bear-heat-dhaka-bangladesh-battling-extreme-weather-climate

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/11/stockholm-ban-petrol-and-diesel-cars-city-centre-2025-swedish-capital-pollution

Als Folge der globalen Erhitzung sind Stürme wie derjenige, der zu den Überschwemmungen Ende September in New York führte, um 10-20% feuchter als im 20. Jahrhundert. Das ergibt sich aus einer Attributionsstudie. Die Niederschlagsmenge bei Starkregen im amerikanischen Nordosten hat seit den 50er Jahren um 55% zugenommen. Die Infrastruktur der Stadt lässt sich bisher nicht schnell genug an die Veränderung des Klimas anpassen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/02/new-york-city-flooding-rain-storm-climate-change

Studie: https://www.climameter.org/20230929-new-york-floods

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/09/22/news/gualtieri_roma_taglio_emissioni_66_climate_ambition_summit-415187473/

https://view.connect.americanpublicmedia.org/?qs=4b67c96dd579939fd9bd844055699bdeee293f04ea187ba67ab514e63f678713545e6ea21a9e4e47a466c8f9761fcdcaca521185a236c4d2f7d5d63af6400dc6b1e108d67d8d3c5a22f50f131947e1b7

Food cultures and restaurant changes can be a precursor indication of gentrification.

• for: futures - food production, futures - water production, desalination, ocean solar farm, floating solar farm, floating city
• title: An interfacial solar evaporation enabled autonomous double-layered vertical floating solar sea farm
• author: Pan Wu, Xuan We, Huimin Yu, Jingyuan Zhao, Yida Wang, Kewu Pi, Gary Owens, Haolan Xu
• date: Oct. 1, 2023
• source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894723041839?via%3Dihub#f0005
• comment
  • Since this simple design integrates fresh water and food production, it can be integrated as a module for a floating city.

• for: green city, living city, environmental justice, safe and just transition, safe and just boundaries earth system boundaries, just transition, climate justice, cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries
• title: Environmental justice in a very green city: Spatial inequality in exposure to urban nature, air pollution and heat in Oslo, Norway
• author: Zander S. Venter, Helene Figari, Olve Krange, Vegard Gundersen
• date: Feb. 2023
• source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972207293X#f0005

• for: sister city, sweet spot, example, example - sweet spot, example - sister city
• comment
  • Example
    • TPF sister city program
    • optimum size and sweet spot for population cohorts for climate action
  • community cooperative

Die Stadt Hamburg hat ein Klimaschutzgestz vorgelegt, um bis 2045 CO2 neutral zu werden. Umweltverbände halten das Ziel für utopisch, weil die angekündigten Maßnahmen nicht ausreichen, kaum Zwischenschritte angegeben werden und nicht klar ist, wie Fortschritte bei der Dekarbonisierung gemessen werden.

https://taz.de/Hamburger-Klimaschutz-Gesetz/!5953226/

• for: zoning, city council, re-zoning, low carbon city, walkable city

• for: project drawdown - walkable city, walkable city

• for: TPF, cosmolocal, community as building block, city as building block, W2W, quote, quote - Brian Wong, citizen assemblies, bottom-up strategy
• paraphrase
• quote
  • the victims that suffer under over consumption over depletion and environmental degradation don't really have a say
  • so we want a fair World
  • At Large we need to start with Fair countries
    • and with Fair countries the prerequisite is
    • fair cities
  • what's needed here too is direct mechanisms by which
    • the people can have their voices heard
    • can hold Elites accountable and
    • fundamentally have an opportunity to partake in the designing of
      • the rules of the institutions and
      • of the outlying sort of overarching structures of their cities and therefore
    • we move from cities to countries and
    • from countries to the World At Large

• for: definition, definition - decentralized city, decentralized city, network city, definition - network city, question, question - decentralized city, question - network city
• definition
  • decentralized city
  • network city
    • a virtual city united by rules of governance for its members via the internet but with physical buildings and infrastructure all over the planet. Each physical location is considered a neighborhood of the decentralized or network city
• questions
  • does this mean that each networked city is really only defined by its membership and virtual governance framework?
  • these physical settlements would still have to abide by the bylaws of the actual physical location (ie. ward or district of a city) they are located in

• for: city DAO, decentralized city, intentional community, intentional communities, Jonathan Willis, Cabin DAO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY

Lots of controversy over this music video this past week or so.

In addition to some of the double entendre meanings of "we take care of our own", I'm most appalled about the tacit support of the mythology that small towns are "good" and large cities are "bad" (or otherwise scary, crime-ridden, or dangerous).

What are the crime statistics per capita about the safety of small versus large?

Availability bias of violence and crime in the big cities are overly sampled by most media (newspapers, radio, and television). This video plays heavily into this bias.

There's also an opposing availability bias going on with respect to the positive aspects of small communities "taking care of their own" when in general, from an institutional perspective small towns are patently not taking care of each other or when they do its very selective and/or in-crowd based rather than across the board.

Note also that all the news clips and chyrons are from Fox News in this piece.

Alternately where are the musicians singing about and focusing on the positive aspects of cities and their cultures.

In Peking und den acht chinesischen Provinzhauptstädten wurden in den vergangenen Tagen Rekordtemperaturen gemessen.

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/chine-pekin-suffoque-sous-39-degres-un-record-pour-la-periode-20230616_ICAJYWZ3ERBIZDIJHRGIVSZSJQ/

Im Shanghai wurden gerade die höchsten Mal-Temperaturen seit 100 Jahren gemessen. Durch die globale Erhitzung hat sich dort das Risiko von Hitzewellen um das 30-fache vergrößert. https://www.liberation.fr/international/asie-pacifique/shanghai-vit-sa-journee-de-mai-la-plus-chaude-depuis-100-ans-20230529_BSLABFO2XFGQFPVX3REPGSDB5A/

In der Liberation bezweifelt der Architekt Albert Levi, dass der Plan der Stadt Paris für die Klimaanpassung ausreichend sein wird, um eine unerträgliche Erhitzung und insbesondere die Bildung von Urbanen Hitze-Inseln zu verhindern. Geplant sind 60 Hektar zusätzlicher grünräume, die Entsiegelung von 30 bis 65% aller Parzellen, ein Verbot von Hochhäusern und des Fans von Bäumen. Levi kritisiert, dass die Verdichtungspolitik der vergangenen Jahre nicht gestoppt wird und eine Intensivierung des Tourismus geplant ist. Der Artikel verweist auf wichtige Dokumente zur Vorbereitung der Klimaanpassung in Paris. https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/paris-face-au-rechauffement-climatique-mauvais-plan-20230630_FEFN6PDVJJCXJK2NYAFIE2YZFU/

Das Stadtparlament von Paris hat beschlossen, dass – nach dem Vorbild von Lyon – SUVs höhere Parkgebühren bezahlen müssen. Bei der Berechnung spielen außer der Größe auch andere ökologische Parameter eine Rolle. https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/06/22/news/suv_parigi_aumento_costo_parcheggio-405192838/?rss

Henry Grabar schillert in einem neuen Buch ausführlich die Folgen des parkens für amerikanische Städte. In den USA wird mehr Fläche für das Parken als für das wohnen verwendet. Allein um Houston in Texas herum wurde in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine Fläche, die dem Land Belgien entspricht, versiegelt. Die verkehrsemissionen sind der größte Teil des enormen amerikanischen treibhausgasausstoßes. Das Buch behandelt gründlich alle Aspekte des Themas und stellt Alternativen vor.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/26/paved-paradise-book-americans-cars-climate-crisis

Vergaberecht, Langsamkeit der Verwaltung und Unterfinanzierung des öffentlichen Verkehrs sind haupthindernisse bei der Umstellung einer Stadt wie Wuppertal auf klimaneutralität. Interview mit dem grünen Wuppertaler Oberbürgermeister Schneidewind, der zuvor das Wuppertal-institut geleitet hat. https://taz.de/Gruene-Politiker-ueber-Wandel-der-Stadt/!5938576/

Die globale Erhitzung führt in der Adriaregion u.a. zu mehr Überschwemmungen durch Regen und das ansteigende Meer und zur Vermischung von Süßwasser mit eindringendem Salzwasser Die Repubblica berichtet über einen Wettbewerb, bei dem Klimaanpassungsmaßnahmen adriatischer Städte und Initiativen ausgezeichnet wurden. https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/06/15/news/cmcc_premio_costa_adriatica_soluzioni_cambiamento_climatico-404453545/?rss

In Paris hat die Stadtverwaltung einen Plan für die Anpassung an die globale Erhitzung bis 2050 vorgelegt. Sie geht davon aus, dass es dann jâhrlich ca drei Wochen extremer Hitze mit Temperaturen bis zu 50 Grad Celsius geben wird. Ziel sei es, von einer "Heizungsstadt" zu einer "Oasenstadt" zu werden. Dazu sollen unter anderem 40% des öffentlichen Raumes entsiegelt werden

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/pour-sadapter-a-la-chaleur-cet-ete-paris-veut-la-jouer-comme-seville-20230606_VP5JRXBPR5FJBJTJLAMILGIBN4/

Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Waldbrand-Katastrophe in Alberta bespricht der Guardien John Vaillants Buch Fire Weather. Es behandelt den großen Brand von FortMcMurray 2016 und stellt dar, wie sich Intensität und Qualität von Waldbränden durch die globale Erhitzung verändern. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/10/fire-weather-john-valliant-new-book-alberta-wildfire

Ermutigender Artikel über Zagrebs Bürgermeister Tomašević, seinen Kampf gegen die Korruption und Reformen z.B. zur Müllreduzierung.. https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000145927313/wie-zagrebs-gruener-buergermeister-gegen-korruption-vorgeht

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LA City Council members walk out as embattled colleague tries to return amid outrage over leaked audio<br /> by Lara Korte and Alexander Nieves<br /> 12/09/2022 04:18 PM EST

read on Fri 2022-12-09 5:16 PM

Projektbericht im Rahmen des Programms "Stadt der Zukunft"

Die vollständige Eröffnungsbilanz vom März 2022

!- example : Cosmolocal organizations scaling city impacts - CITYPROTOCOL - https://cityprotocol.cat/ - The City Anatomy, an analogy to the human anatomy and its dynamic physiology, offers a common language describing the city ecosystem as three key system elements: - a set of physical structures (Structure); - the living entities that make up a city’s society (Society); and - the flow of interactions between them (Interactions).

Definition of "Curb Cut"

(((Howard Forman))). (2022, January 30). New York City Update Cases down 67%. Positive rate down to 3.8%, lowest since 12/12. Hospital census down 33%, lowest since 12/28. New admits lowest since 12/21. Getting closer and closer to pre-Omicron levels. Https://t.co/c6H98PUA0E [Tweet]. @thehowie. https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1487582265551077387

Hans Monderman (19 November 1945 – 7 January 2008) was a Dutch road traffic engineer and innovator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Monderman

Suggested by Jerry Michalski: https://app.thebrain.com/brains/3d80058c-14d8-5361-0b61-a061f89baf87/thoughts/bd9c210a-ac8a-0e34-b309-f62e61e72778/attachments/724c3cbf-7aba-4ac7-5b1a-392125168c09

Lois Weber<br /> - First woman accepted to Motion Picture Director's Association, precursor of Director's Guild<br /> - First directors committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<br /> - Mayor of Universal City<br /> - One of the highest paid and most influential directors in Hollywood of her day<br /> - one of first directors to form her own production company

See also: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Weber

This isn't fantasy, anymore; it really happening. The floating city has six integrated systems: #zerowaste and #circularsystems, closed-loop water systems, food, net-zero energy, innovative #mobility, and coastal habitat regeneration. These interconnected systems will generate 100 percent of the required operational energy on-site through floating and rooftop #photovoltaicpanels.

For a comparative analysis of Northanger Abbey's and Pride and Prejudice's depictions of the city in relation to contemporary ideas of the city "as moral pollution," see Celia Eason's essay, "Austen’s Urban Redemption: Rejecting Richardson’s View of the City." Easton shows us how characters like Isabella Thorpe and Mr. Bennet defy contemporary ideas that women were helpless in the city or that remaining ignorant of the city proved morally useful, respectively. As Catherine's character will prove, knowing how to navigate the city and its traps is essential for any young woman.

Citation: Easton, Celia. "Austen’s Urban Redemption: Rejecting Richardson’s View of the City." Persuasions, no. 26, 2004.

A bottom up approach can be tried instead in which trust bonds are automatically stronger - form citizen sister city groups between the global north and the global south of each state as well as local north and local south within each city

Is this responsible for some of the "group think" seen in the Republican party and the political right? Imitation of bad or counter-intuitive actions outweights scientifically proven better actions? Examples: anti-vaxxers and coronavirus no-masker behaviors? (Some of this may also be about or even entangled with George Lakoff's (?) tribal identity theories relating to "people like me".

Explore this area more deeply.

Another contributing factor for this effect may be the small-town effect as most Republican party members are in the countryside (as opposed to the larger cities which tend to be more Democratic). City dwellers are more likely to be more insular in their interpersonal relations whereas country dwellers may have more social ties to other people and groups and therefor make them more tribal in their social interrelationships. Can I find data to back up this claim?

How does link to the thesis put forward by Joseph Henrich in The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous? Does Henrich have data about city dwellers to back up my claim above?

What does this tension have to do with the increasing (and potentially evolutionary) propensity of humans to live in ever-increasingly larger and more dense cities versus maintaining their smaller historic numbers prior to the pre-agricultural timeperiod?

What are the biological effects on human evolution as a result of these cultural pressures? Certainly our cultural evolution is effecting our biological evolution?

What about the effects of communication media on our cultural and biological evolution? Memes, orality versus literacy, film, radio, television, etc.? Can we tease out these effects within the socio-politico-cultural sphere on the greater span of humanity? Can we find breaks, signs, or symptoms at the border of mass agriculture?

total aside, though related to evolution: link hypercycles to evolution spirals?

Batty, M., Murcio, R., Iacopini, I., Vanhoof, M., & Milton, R. (2020). London in Lockdown: Mobility in the Pandemic City. ArXiv:2011.07165 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07165

Have they considered consolidation? Abandon three or four cities to aggregate into one?

When pushing through ideas like the Homestead Act of 1862, one needs to additionally consider the long arc of history and plan for secondary level changes in decades or centuries hence. It may have been an economic boom for 50 years or so (and shouldn't giving away all that land account for something like that?) but what happens when that economic engine dies from lack of planning?

Could the land and space be given back to indigenous peoples again? Could it be given to immigrant populations which might have different economic drivers for their lives and concerns?

Liu, C., Yang, Y., Chen, B., Cui, T., Shang, F., & Li, R. (2022). Revealing spatio-temporal interaction patterns behind complex cities. ArXiv:2201.02117 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02117

Jeffrey-Wilensky, Jaclyn, and Caroline Lewis. ‘NY Nursing Homes See Overnight Surge In Employee COVID Vaccinations Thanks To State Mandate’. Gothamist, 1 October 2021. https://gothamist.com.

Such brutality and insolence, such debauchery and extravagance, such idleness, irreligion, cursing and swearing, and contempt of all rule and authority ... Our people are drunk with the cup of liberty.

This sounds eerily like some of the same sorts of fears, uncertainties, and doubt that middle America has about our bigger cities. Though I'll note that broadly they feel like they're the party of "liberty" now.

This is an interesting data point in the long-running contention between the city and the countryside that seems to dominate large swaths of human history.

Peters, Adele, Adele Peters, and Adele Peters. “Turning Empty Office Buildings into Housing Could Instantly Transform Post-COVID Cities.” Fast Company, July 30, 2021. https://www.fastcompany.com/90659901/turning-empty-office-buildings-into-housing-could-instantly-transform-post-covid-cities.

Time in the US, arrests, detention

Mexico before the US, Mexican childhood, Memories

Reflections

Mexico, before the US, Mexican childhood

(20) ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @martikagv: New book “Urban Informatics”, #OpenAccess https://t.co/wp45uWU9Mi Edited by @jmichaelbatty @CUHKofficial Michael Goodchild,…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 April 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1384411081456582662

Britt, Robert Roy. ‘10 Signs the Pandemic Is About to Get Much Worse’. Medium, 19 October 2020. https://elemental.medium.com/10-signs-the-pandemic-is-about-to-get-much-worse-cf261bf3885d.

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