#urban population

[falseandrealultravival]

“It's hard to live in the city” ordinance (February 10, 2003)

The Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)

(This is an entry for a contest sponsored by Snowy Village. I won a prize and received 5 kg of top-grade rice.)

(the purpose)

Article 1

The purpose of this practice is to awaken the urban population, who live separately from rural areas to the place of humans in nature.

(Promotion of rainwater storage)

Article 2

The rain in the city just flows away, and the city people do not use it. Regardless of the form, local governments subsidize urban residents to use rainwater as their 'own water source'. This will prevent the destruction of nature caused by the constructing of unnecessary dams.

(Promote recycling of manure)

Article 3

Because excrement from the buttocks and agricultural products that enter the mouth connects cities and rural areas, local governments are working to spread composting toilets that can efficiently recycle excrement instead of flush toilets. Subsidies will be provided to households that have adopted composting toilets. At the same time, we will develop a route to effectively reuse the compost produced.

(Promotion of participation in forest management)

Article 4

As is well known, Japan's forestry industry is on the verge of collapse. We need to draw more attention to domestic timber. Therefore, each season, urban municipalities jointly plan forestry-related events with rural villages and invite urban residents to participate. Participating city residents and local governments will split the costs. The timber will be transferred at a low price to participating city residents.

(Care for wild plants and edible wild plants)

Article 5

In order to improve the fact that the citizens of the city have not returned anything to the farming, mountain, and fishing villages, those who steal wild plants will be penalized according to this customary practice. (Detailed regulations) Those who enter the mountain to pick edible wild plants are asked to buy thank-you fertilizer for a fee and use it to care for the collected edible wild plants.

(Provisions regarding tobacco)

Article 6

Currently, only the bad aspects of tobacco are emphasized, and urban residents are unaware of the fact that tobacco can also be used for medicinal purposes, including as a hemostatic agent. Violation of manners is out of the question, and clauses that discriminate against smokers are not included. It is a “do nothing” clause. (In fact, the causal relationship between tobacco and cancer has not yet been proven.) In addition, without violating the law, research and development of products using herbs (such as Eyebright, Coltsfoot, etc.) that can be used as "medicinal tobacco" are encouraged. and farming and mountain villages.

(Finance)

Article 7

In principle, each business is self-supporting, but businesses with poor performance can be financed without interest from other businesses.

[worldcitiesday]

Statement of the UN HABITAT Executive-director on world cities day 2024.

''This world cities day, we are celebrating you, the young leaders, bold advocates, and changemakers driving the climate action we urgently need. You are the face and energy of our cities and towns.''

Statement of the UN HABITAT Executive-director on world cities day 2024.

[jadethranx]

Urban population by city size | OECD

[clonerightsagenda]

Growing up my brother had a medical model of a skull that glowed spookily in the dark so he wrapped it up in brown fabric like mummy wrappings (which made it much scarier). I rehomed it when he was cleaning out his room because it was a vital part of our childhood but uh. I can't find it. Where did it go

[woagopossum]

Professional Possum

[emcapi-gaming]

I am greatly enjoying all the discussion about Solution 9 and the positives and negatives that I've been seeing.

However! I went for a walk around the other day as Arkose! Who is my S9 oc with mild levin sickness (manifesting similar to peripheral neuropathy), and who often uses modified arm crutches for balance/stability.

And I suddenly noticed that this place is an ACCESSIBILITY NIGHTMARE. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING STAIRS WITH NO RAMPS. WHY ARE THERE RANDOM BUMPS AND ELEVATION CHANGES IN THE ROAD.

Literally when I have time I'm gonna make a series of screenshots with Arkose posing next to all the FUCKING STAIRS doing very sarcastic /showleft, /showright, and/or "magic the gathering butt crack guy prayer hands pose."

[sillyguy-supreme]

shoutout to all my indian mutuals in the elections trenches right now

[f00t-fic]

Well at least the libraries and city parks funding passed 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

[un-pearable]

the kyoshi flashback in Avatar Day and the sheer scale of ba sing se in comparison to…. literally everywhere else in the world really has me thinking about the politics that lead to such distinct “nations”. it makes way more sense for a land as vast as the earth kingdom to have once been earth kingdoms with local land disputes between feudal lords - as we see with the conflict kyoshi ended - only for a world-spanning war to have driven first the lords to unite under ba sing se’s banner for protection, and then as the war continued, increasing waves and waves of refugees and oma shu standing as the only remaining hold out due to their unique position (top of a mountain - most other earth kingdom towns we see are in valleys) such would explain how many ruins and ghost towns we see throughout s2 but also the improbability of a land that big to be unified under a single leader for that long

[displayheartcode]

When you have a clear idea of how you want your OCs to be in the future but

If you place them in Chicago, you’ll have the constant dread of your old d.resden files fanfic haunting you

If you place them in Columbus/Cincinnati, you’re subjecting them to Ohio

If you place them in NYC, you’re doing a cliche

But if you place them in Boston, you’ll feel like you’re betraying the Midwest aesthetic of the project

[c0rpseductor]

was looking in the comments for pigeon video to find the name of the song and one of the people in there was like “NOOO DONT MAKE FUN OF HIM WE BRED NESTMAKING OUT OF PIGEONS </3” and im just. What? have you ever seen a mourning dove nest? this is a natural goofy columbidae behavior

[worldcitiesday]

The transformative power of cities: tackling climate change through green, resilient, and inclusive urban development.

From 1970 to 2021, the global urban population surged from 1.19 billion to 4.46 billion, while the Earth’s surface temperature rose by 1.19 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Cities, as engines of prosperity, have been major contributors to climate change.  A new World Bank report, Thriving: Making Cities Green, Resilient, and Inclusive in a Changing Climate, suggests that cities also hold one of the keys to solving the climate crisis. By 2050, nearly 70% of the world’s population will call cities their home. 

The report examines over 10,000 cities to determine how green, how resilient, and how inclusive they are while examining the two-way relationship between cities and climate change. Drawing from this analysis, the report offers guidance to policymakers on how to help their cities become greener, more resilient, and more inclusive – in other words, on how to help their cities thrive – in a changing climate.

[eschynite]

Interesting that the # of licensed drivers in the US is decreasing

[simstoryu]

threads & things club members 🧶

:: chanelle (leader), shemar, holly, and kaylee

[hibiscuslynx]

i keep imagining the statehouse as this huge house in the middle of nowhere. the entire property is in the middle of a grassland—yellow-green grass that reaches up to your knees kind of grassland. the plains. and there's a fenced off backyard behind the statehouse, but not more than a few hundred feet after it there's a forest—a temperate deciduous forest, like you find in the eastern U.S., with a creek a little ways in. venture deeper and you'll find a river. there's a mountain backdrop as well, and you know they're huge mountains, but they're so far away they appear a little small.

the house itself is... queen anne meets folk victorian-ish. shades of golden brown and white. there's a paved road leading up to it and a parking lot off to the side, about the size of a decently sized high school parking lot. and the road ends at the house. if you keep driving the other way, though, you eventually make it to town. a fairly urban city, with your standard fast food joints and stores and gas stations and whatnot. it's not the heart of a metropolis, not the suburban edges of it, but a decently populated urban city with a freeway or two running through it. somehow, somewhere, after a bit of an elevation drop maybe, absolutely rural plains gives way to the city. blink and you'll miss it, except no matter what you do, you'll always miss it.

the thing is, i keep imagining the statehouse and the land surrounding it as this little pocket in time and space, that exists on vaguely the same line as where central time meets eastern. the states are immortal, and that's practically magic, so why can't the statehouse be magic as well?

[skruttet]

"Kråkström hopes that the Barnes & Noble partnership will be a first step in expanding the Moomin brand’s profile in the U.S. market. Four seasons of a new television season have been produced and are being aired in 60 countries, and Kråkström expects there will eventually be a distribution deal in the U.S. as well. There are plans afoot to develop a Moomin feature film, mostly likely with a U.S. studio."

oh? a US studio????