#@citylab

[nisiverum]

Sim city at dusk, Central Park, art. 🥰 • • #newyork #newyorknewyork #brooklyngirls #chelseaneighborhood #brooklyn #cityskyline #citylab #citylabontheground #newyorkskyline #girlsinnewyork #summerinnewyork #manhattan #thebigapple #gettinglostinnewyork #girlswhotravel #travelbabe #citylife #moodygrams #newyorksummer #cityskylineatnight #nyc #nycgram #travelphotography #centralpark #centralparksquirrelcensus #famousartinnyc (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8MzRQPsJL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ellie Whelton, B.Arch

MAPsite

[akurjata]

When Crosswalks Go Rogue

"Indeed, that is part of the power of guerrilla crosswalks: Even if they are not long for this world, they demonstrate how needlessly difficult it is to build safer streets in US cities."

[detroitography]

Map: Close City Amenities in Detroit

A new tool to measure accessibility and walkability in cities is out called Close from Nat Henry. The tool relies on supermarket and libraries data points in order to assess closeness. Oddly the data sources are not listed, so it is tough to measure supermarkets against our annual updated list of grocery stores and the data clearly doesn’t account for Detroit’s trouble with library funding and…

[formisthemaskofspace]

Bloomberg CityLab 2024

Mexico City, Mexico October 14 – 16, 2024

Organized by Bloomberg Philanthropies in partnership with the Aspen Institute, Bloomberg CityLab brings together global mayors alongside prominent city innovators, business leaders, urban experts, artists, and activists to discuss and discover replicable solutions to pressing issues.

Bloomberg CityLab was founded on the principle that the most important innovation is happening at the local level and that global impact can be achieved when cities share solutions.

Mayors Coming Together to Change the World

For over a decade, CityLab summits have crisscrossed the globe, gathering the most influential mayors and voices from hundreds of cities worldwide. Summits have made international headlines, and generated tangible takeaways for attendees. Past CityLab conferences have been hosted in New York, Los Angeles, London, Miami, Paris, Detroit, Washington D.C., and Amsterdam.

[biglisbonnews]

AI Invades Urban Planning and Design, With Mixed Results When designers laboring away on a virtual cityscape began observing and tweaking their creation, one of the first things that jumped out at them, … https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-16/ai-invades-urban-planning-and-design-with-mixed-results

[wilwheaton]

"Musk/X has slapped a spam/dangerous content warning on this NPR link," wrote Tom Watson, a professor at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies. "This shows just how damaging this explosive story is to Trump. Let's get it wide, folks." "Marking US public broadcaster content as 'unsafe' is the sort of revenge move the KGB has fantasized about for decades — and it tells you everything about what Musk and X actually are," wrote journalist Dave Troy. "Twitter/X is now running a warning that NPR's story about Trump's TikTok video at Arlington National Cemetery is a malicious link," wrote CityLab editor Kriston Capps. "I've never seen this once in the thousands of years I've spent on this site."

X's move on cemetery news shows 'how damaging this explosive story is to Trump': experts

[hoursofreading]

Embracing the mundane also means making sure that our solutions actually work for the people who need them. When I was attorney general of California, for example, and I went after the for-profit Corinthian Colleges, I was concerned about what would happen to students who’d been defrauded. The students had the right to transfer to another school, get their loan discharged, or get their money back, but the paperwork involved was quite complicated. Most students had no idea how to begin, or even that they had these options in the first place. We had prevailed in the case, but the students wouldn’t actually receive the benefit of the financial relief unless they could navigate the bureaucracy. So my office created a website that walked students, step by step, through this complex process. I wanted to make it as simple as possible for someone to exercise their rights and get actual relief. As we were developing the website, I’d often have our team show it to me, and I’d literally click through the process myself. More than once, I hit a snag. I’d tell them, “If I don’t understand it, how will the students?” That meant the team had to rework the interface and the text. But as frustrating as the exercise might have been, it resulted in a better product. Taking the time to perfect the details made the tool more relevant for the students who needed it. My point is: you have to sweat the small stuff—because sometimes it turns out that the small stuff is actually the big stuff. I read a story once about a principal at a St. Louis elementary school who wanted to take on rampant truancy in her school. When she talked to parents, she realized that many of the kids didn’t have clean clothes. Either they didn’t have access to washing machines or their families couldn’t afford detergent or the power had been shut off. Students were embarrassed to show up at school in dirty clothes. “I think people don’t talk about not having clean clothes because it makes you want to cry or go home or run away or something,” a student explained. “It doesn’t feel good.” So the principal had a washer and dryer installed at her school, and she invited students who had missed more than ten days of class to do their laundry on campus. According to CityLab, in the first year of the initiative, more than 90 percent of the students they tracked boosted their attendance.

Kamala Harris

[sarkos]

Musk/X has slapped a spam/dangerous content warning on this NPR link," wrote Tom Watson, a professor at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies. "This shows just how damaging this explosive story is to Trump. Let's get it wide, folks." ADVERTISEMENT "Marking US public broadcaster content as 'unsafe' is the sort of revenge move the KGB has fantasized about for decades — and it tells you everything about what Musk and X actually are," wrote journalist Dave Troy. "Twitter/X is now running a warning that NPR's story about Trump's TikTok video at Arlington National Cemetery is a malicious link," wrote CityLab editor Kriston Capps. "I've never seen this once in the thousands of years I've spent on this site."

X's move on cemetery news shows 'how damaging this explosive story is to Trump': experts - Raw Story

[fellhellion]

Feeling things about how relatively quickly Xina accepts Miguel back into her life as something like a friend. The way she slips into fucking w him or teasingly calling him sweetheart, or even, hell. either Xina was lost in the sauce of reconnecting w a childhood friend and genuinely forgot him being an Alchemax employee meant he couldn’t see anything in Angela’s citylab, or she trusted him enough even w that knowledge to think maybe Angela would reconsider.

[idroolinmysleep]

Why the Debate Over Daylight Saving Time Rages On

The twice-a-year chorus of griping about time changes is upon us. “UGH, I have to wake up before sunrise” in the spring or “UGH, it’s already dark when I leave work” in the fall. Most of this is surely attributable to the shock of getting our schedules suddenly jerked by an hour, as the sunlight hours will eventually lengthen or shorten to one’s liking (or not) anyway, but we don’t notice the incremental changes. So what if we stopped changing our clocks and made either standard time or daylight time permanent? Which choice will give us the fewest days when it’s dark just before or after work? Well, cartographer Andy Woodruff did the math and came up with these results. As he notes on his blog, 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. are pretty much arbitrary, and you can put in your own times if you don’t like them. But they seem reasonable to me, so that’s what I’m going with.

Compared to what we’re doing today, permanent standard time gives us much better sunrise times. The sunset times are a bit worse, but not by much. Year-round DST, on the other hand, gives us many more days with evening sunlight. However, this comes at the expense of mornings, where more of the country stays darker for longer. Personally, I’d rather have a more even distribution of sunlight between mornings and evenings, and permanent standard time achieves that.

Below, I’ve taken the permanent-DST sunrise map (because it’s the biggest one available on the CityLab site) and added the Census Bureau’s population distribution map on top of it. A couple of things stand out for me:

Being near the western edge of its time zone means Atlanta gets to suffer with having fewer early sunrises than other major cities.

It’s pretty clear why El Paso is in a different time zone from the rest of Texas. The poor city would spend so much of the year in the dark otherwise.

The bulge around Boise allows it to stay in the Mountain Time Zone, but it’s unclear to me what advantage this confers since Idaho is otherwise split into two time zones anyway, and this positioning means more dark mornings for the city.

[nisiverum]

Todays’ final count: 20,005 steps, 65 floors, 8.3 miles, 2 mosquito bites. To say I’m beat would be an understatement, but it was so incredibly amazing exploring Tikal today. Of course I like just got New York on my phone which was august 2021 so at this rate you’ll see Tikal mid 2025 🙃 • • #newyork #newyorknewyork #brooklyngirls #chelseaneighborhood #brooklyn #cityskyline #citylab #citylabontheground #newyorkskyline #girlsinnewyork #summerinnewyork #manhattan #thebigapple #gettinglostinnewyork #girlswhotravel #travelbabe #citylife #moodygrams #newyorksummer #cityskylineatnight #nyc #nycgram #travelphotography #newyorkminute #itstimefornyc #timessquare #timessquarenyc #newyorkwindows #grandcentralterminal (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoEUUh_MUso/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Elizaveta Basov, BArch

MAPsite

[battymoonflower7]

ID: three screenshots. The first is a perspective article by CityLab. It’s headline reads “My fight with a sidewalk robot.” The paragraph below reads “A life threatening encounter with AI technology convinced me that the needs of people with disabilities need to be engineered into our autonomous future.” Below the paragraph is a picture of a small rectangular sidewalk robot moving along a sidewalk.

The second screenshot is a tweeted picture by an unknown user of six sidewalk robots going down the side of the street, with a car trying to pull between two of them. There are two replies below it, the first reply is by Adrian Lopez @PaladinZilch and reads “Wow. Imagine being in a wheelchair and seeing that.” The second reply is by I [flaming heart emoji] You @IAm444x and reads “oh god the tech bros made car traffic for sidewalks [crying emoji].”

The third screenshot is a reply tweet by Will Jackson @geologywill that reads “A few weeks ago… it took 5 minutes for their sensors to figure out how to get out of the standoff… Enjoyed every second of it.” Below is a picture of three sidewalk robots caught in a circle at an outdoor bus stop, presumably stuck in their circle. End ID

[rayhaber]

İmamoğlu, Askıda Fatura ve İstanbul Modelini Dünyaya Tanıttı

Türkiye Belediyeler Birliği (TBB) ve İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye (İBB) Başkanı Ekrem İmamoğlu, 2024 yılı Ekim ayında, Mexico City’de düzenlenen 11. Bloomberg CityLab Zirvesi’nde dikkat çekici bir konuşma gerçekleştirdi. Bu zirve, dünya genelinden 500’den fazla belediye başkanının katılımıyla, yerel yönetimlerin toplumsal sorunları ele alma becerilerini geliştirmeyi amaçlayan önemli bir platform…

[akaanuar]

Rival Consoles - Gaivotas (Official Music Video) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo.

A film by Vincent Duluc Teenager — Arnoo Abytalypov Teenagers — Jorobek Abytalypov, Yryskeldi Abytalypov and Baeil Baktybekov

Shaman — Burul Usenbaeva Assistant — Baktygul Kaamytova

Production Company — Motion Palace Producer — Louis Arnoux Executive Producers — Neels Castillon, Ariane Cornic & Robert Raths Production Assistant — Raphael Julier

Director of Photography — Adrien Lallau First Camera assistant — Damien Rubinsztajn Camera & Lenses — RVZ

Service production Company — CityLab Local producer — Emirlan Zhakshybaev

Production designer — Nurbek Musaev

Editor — Vincent Duluc-David Colorist — Eudes Quittelier

With the endless help of — Nazira Abylova, Yrysaly Turganbaev, Nuraly Turganbaev, Adyl Jumabekov, Kamil, Elmira Omurzakova, Nargiz Tursunbaeva, Nasiba Alymzhanova, Themis Alzhanova, Rabia Alymzhanova, Firdaus Alzhanov, Khadicha Ismailova, Zuu, Mirlan and Akilbek

Special thanks — Sebastien Rouquet, Pieter Jan Claessens, Pierre Odin, Clarrence Larrivoire, Greg Cohen, Kenza Dhenry-Pages, RVZ and Samuel Renollet

℗© 2024 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.