#urban transformation

[khushicore]

HUMAN FORM (EXERCISE 3 DRAFT 3)

Imagining what the Human Form would be 80 years in the future

Food

Food production will integrate AI-driven vertical farms within cities, enabling year-round cultivation of algae, lab-grown proteins, and tailored micronutrient blends. Personalized meal pods will 3D-print food using real-time health data to match nutritional requirements. Urban food forests and micro-gardens will provide fresh produce in every neighborhood, significantly reducing transport emissions and waste.

Water

District-wide closed-loop water systems will collect, purify, and recycle water seamlessly, minimizing wastage. Innovations like fog-harvesting nets and water-from-air technology will turn humidity into clean water in arid regions. Smart water analyzers will empower citizens to track usage and quality, optimizing conservation practices.

Housing

Homes will be constructed with self-healing materials that repair cracks and extend the building’s lifespan. Biodiverse rooftops will serve as both insulation and habitats for pollinators, while modular interiors will adapt to changing family needs. Shared community spaces will prioritize functionality and mental well-being, fostering collaboration and connection.

Education

Education will blend virtual reality classrooms with real-world problem-solving projects, ensuring a balance of theory and application. AI tutors will provide tailored support, while multi-sensory immersive experiences will replace traditional rote learning. Empathy and cross-cultural understanding will be core subjects, creating globally connected citizens.

Healthcare

AI-powered micro-implants will continuously monitor bodily functions, providing predictive diagnostics and preventive care. Tele-health hubs within homes will deliver instant consultations and treatments, eliminating wait times. Advanced regenerative medicine will repair damaged organs, and mental health solutions will include virtual therapy spaces with AI emotional support companions.

Social Equity

Equity will be enhanced through decentralized systems that allocate resources efficiently, addressing gaps in real time. Universal access to essential services will be supported by AI equity monitors that detect bias or exclusion in policies and take corrective action. Community hubs will provide tools for skills development, entrepreneurship, and social mobility.

Gender Equality

Gender-sensitive algorithms will analyze decision-making processes across industries, ensuring inclusivity and equity. All public and private institutions will adopt universal gender-neutral facilities and policies. Representation in leadership and media will reflect the diversity of society, erasing traditional gender biases and fostering equality.

Work & Income

Work will be redefined, focusing on creativity, innovation, and societal impact. People will engage in passion-driven projects, supported by universal basic income and flexible work structures. Collaborative hubs will allow freelancers and teams to work together dynamically, while automation will handle repetitive, low-value tasks.

Energy / Electricity

Clean energy will dominate, with wireless energy transfer systems powered by fusion reactors and solar satellites. Buildings will operate as mini power plants, generating and storing their energy through solar tiles, wind walls, and kinetic technologies. AI will forecast energy demands, ensuring sustainable usage and zero wastage.

Peace & Justice

AI mediation will revolutionize conflict resolution, detecting underlying tensions and resolving them proactively. Community-driven justice models will prioritize rehabilitation and dialogue over punishment. Citizens will have access to real-time updates on laws and policies, fostering accountability and transparency in governance.

Transportation

Seamless, multi-modal transportation systems will integrate maglev trains, shared autonomous pods, and aerial drones. Roads will be replaced with green pedestrian corridors, while self-driving vehicles will reduce accidents and traffic. Efficient, low-cost public transit will make private car ownership obsolete.

Political Voice

Blockchain technology will power secure, transparent voting, enabling real-time decision-making by citizens on policies and budgets. Governments will adopt participatory governance models where community-led councils actively shape policies. AI-driven tools will eliminate lobbying influence, ensuring fair representation.

Air Pollution

Air pollution will be managed by smart bioremediation systems, such as genetically modified plants and moss walls in urban areas. Autonomous filtration drones will purify air at hotspots, and green technologies will eliminate pollution sources, making cities carbon-neutral and breathable.

Noise Pollution

Cities will incorporate soundscaping technology that redirects or neutralizes excess noise. Acoustic zoning will ensure quieter residential areas, while sound-absorbing materials in buildings and transit systems will maintain peace. Noise-free transportation and natural sound corridors will offer tranquil public spaces.

Non-Human Life

Urban planning will integrate wildlife bridges, aquatic corridors, and microhabitats for insects and small animals. AI-driven biodiversity monitors will balance urban growth with ecosystem preservation. Coexistence with non-human life will be a fundamental principle of development.

Chemical Pollution

Sustainable production methods will eliminate toxic chemicals from supply chains, while industrial processes will incorporate "green chemistry" principles. Waste treatment plants will convert pollutants into reusable resources, ensuring a circular approach to waste management.

Water Bodies & Supply

Advanced desalination technologies, powered by renewable energy, will make seawater a primary source of potable water. Floating wetlands will cleanse waterways and restore biodiversity, while AI systems will monitor water ecosystems to maintain balance and purity.

Waste Management

Circular economies will eliminate waste entirely, with AI directing materials to recycling or composting streams. Smart appliances will optimize waste segregation at the household level, and community repair hubs will extend product lifespans. Organic waste will fuel bioenergy systems, closing the loop sustainably.

Land Use, Streets & Public Spaces

Urban design will prioritize vibrant, multi-functional public spaces that double as community hubs. Streets will serve as extensions of green spaces, accommodating pedestrians, cyclists, and small autonomous vehicles. Public art installations and cultural activities will enhance urban vibrancy.

Ocean Pollution

Self-sustaining robotic fleets will continuously clean oceans, removing pollutants and plastics. AI-powered monitoring systems will prevent future pollution by regulating shipping and fishing practices. Marine reserves will expand, protecting biodiversity and replenishing aquatic ecosystems.

Effects of Climate Change

Resilient urban designs will combat rising temperatures, sea levels, and extreme weather. Reforestation, carbon capture, and soil restoration projects will help reverse environmental damage. Predictive AI will provide climate adaptation strategies, safeguarding communities worldwide.

Urban Agriculture & Greenification

Vertical gardens and urban forests will be integral to cityscapes, providing food, shade, and improved air quality. Smart sensors will optimize agricultural practices, reducing water use and maximizing yields. Public spaces will feature edible landscapes, promoting food sovereignty and community engagement.

Gender & Sexuality

Comprehensive inclusion policies will enable individuals to freely express their identities. Media, education, and workplaces will embrace and celebrate diverse perspectives, creating a culture of acceptance and belonging. Healthcare will address gender-specific needs with sensitivity and precision.

Diversity & Inclusion

AI-driven policies will eliminate biases in recruitment, education, and governance, ensuring diverse representation at all levels. Cultural festivals and public forums will celebrate differences, fostering a shared sense of humanity and respect for all.

Accessibility

Cities will adopt universal design principles, ensuring accessibility for people of all abilities. AI-powered assistance systems will enable seamless navigation, while sensory-friendly environments will accommodate diverse needs. Inclusivity will be ingrained in all public and private infrastructure.

Sustainability

Regenerative practices will redefine industries, with circular economies prioritizing zero waste and zero emissions. Collaboration between nations will ensure sustainable development goals are met, balancing progress with planetary health.

[jamaicahomescom]

Imagining Jamaica 2035: The Future of Real Estate, Coastal Living, and Urban Transformation

[whereserpentswalk]

Reblog to curse your followers and mutuals.

[binduspoint]

Exploring the Allure of Medchal, Telangana: A Rising Hotspot for Real Estate Development

All Rights reserved – A new residential area Medchal, located in the state of Telangana, has emerged as a prime destination for real estate developers and prospective homebuyers alike. With its strategic location, burgeoning infrastructure, and rapid urbanization, Medchal offers a compelling proposition for investment and residential living. In this article, we delve into the factors that make…

[iammannyj]

Happy Canada Day | Evolution of My Old Hood: Nostalgia, Gentrification, and Canada's Changing Landscape - Part 2

The Impact of Transit Developments: Eglinton Crosstown and the Ontario Line As I stand here, reminiscing about my childhood in Flemingdon Park and Thorncliffe Park, I can’t help but feel a sense of nostalgia mixed with anticipation. The upcoming transit developments, the Eglinton Crosstown and the Ontario Line, will undoubtedly bring profound changes to the neighborhoods that shaped my early…

[startheskelaton]

Who wants more Urbankiju x One spark Au art as a break from the angst? Raise your hands.

[bramblesramblesintoshambles]

Trying to include a werewolf in your story often causes an expectation they will transform for your audience. You have a lot of options for this, but once you've committed to one it's said something about the nature of a werewolf.

Painful transformations can make us feel horrified while watching it, and hope we never endure that kind of agony (AAWIL);

A swift and controlled change can emphasize the power a werewolf has, making this curse more aspiration (Underworld);

Instances where the transformation is very gradual over days leading up to the moon can be fairly tragic due to the loss of autonomy these characters experience (Silver Bullet).

It can be tempting to commit to an aesthetic, however it's essential to ensure the themes of your werewolf story match it. A werewolf who transforms relatively quickly and painlessly isn't going to mesh with a horrific and tragic narrative. They can still work. For instance, the emphasis on how easy it is to let go of their humanity, to indulge, how hard it is to keep the beast at bay. These are themes you can explore in a quick transformation. Perhaps, full moon changes are slow and painful because the human side is fighting their beast trying to tire it out before it gains control. In that we see a more heroic element to the lycanthrope.

Please reblog with your favourite werewolf transformations! Pretty sure my fav. is from Hemlock Grove, just so visceral!

[bluemerakis]

Riding horses is great and everything, I love it. But it’s time to ride something new…

LET ME RIDE HIM PLEASE PLEASE I BEG

[transingthoseformers]

Combining babysitter soundwave with the angst.

Let’s say sounders was part of the few that had the bad baffles. He gets the symptoms, gets the spark, but no sooner it happens, it’s gone.

Years of battle, of injuries, and bots that believed the whole “soundwave birthed his cassettes” rumores leading to some bots to aim in “specific abdominal areas”.

Soundwave learns the brutalist way, after the 3rd/4th reabsorption or extinguishing, he can’t hold a spark. He can never have his postwar dream of cradling his own sparklings and showing them off to what remains of his cassette family.

Here he is witnessing friends, subordinates, and enemies getting what he want by ACCIDENT is killing him. An, as to rub salt in the wound, so many are leaving their spank with him. Some of them were even the sires of his own lost sparks looking happy with others. Holding bit lets that could’ve been HIS.

Some lore say soundwave MADE some bots into his cassettes.

Now there he is, surrounded by so many bitties, after so many losses. They’re so small, not even old enough to have or even begin to process an alt mode.

Soundwave is a telepath, and these minds are basically empty. Their bodies would be easy to change, their minds so much more easy to alter.

The more negligent or reluctant parents probably won’t notice or mind a child going missing, right? No one would question soundwave appearing with new cassettes “out the blue” there were scans of him in early gestation. Based on those false rumors, he probably knows what he was doing and delivered them himself privately.

The more receptive parents though are in shatters wondering where their babies went. They’ll go talk to soundwave ask for assistance or anything as they cry and maybe hold one of his new cassettes in faux comfort. All never knowing the same cassettes they cry with are the same babies they cry for.

Oh my god... I see, I see

He's stealing children, I see

[johndunwin]

the only way is up

This image captures a moment of stillness and decay, reflecting the transformation of a once vibrant place. The title 'the only way is up' suggests hope amidst the disarray. I wanted to show the contrast between the physical deterioration and the potential for renewal, as seen in the forgotten storefront and the remnants of life outside.

[lorillee]

im really normal about them <- lie

[andrewdi8]

In the morning the city was wrapped in a fresh, silent layer of snow its streets softened and still ❄️ Footprints marked quite paths like whispers left behind and everything seemed at peace.

By evening the snow had melted giving way to a thick, enveloping fog. The lights and street lamps glowed faintly, casting long shadows on empty roads. The quiet shifted from calm to eerie as if the city was holding its breath.

Today, the city moved between two worlds soft and silent fog, weather's beauty and mystery intertwined.

It's a reminder that even the most familiar places are in constant transformation.

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[haoeu]

sunset on the velocitron expressways

[whereserpentswalk]

Reblog to receive your transformation, look under the cut to find out what it feels like to transform.

Vampire: You can feel it, slowly changing you since you were first bitten by that creature. You felt stronger at first, not needing to eat, not needing to sleep. It was like the burdens of a human form were lifted from you. The only thing you needed was to drink blood, which isn't that hard to come by. Then the physical transformations began, your body becoming slenderer and more androgynous, until soon you barely are recognizable. One day you wake up and your eyes are pure black, slowly your mouth grows sharp teeth, and special joints and seams in your flesh that allow you to open it into a massive mess of fangs and teeth but close it back up into something humanoid if you want it to. As the last of your humanity goes away, your sex characteristics and body hair entirely disappears, leaving you feeling wonderfully smooth. Perhaps in the past this body would be disturbing to you, you barely look like yourself, but now, looking at yourself and feeling so much more confident, this just feels like you, like what you are meant to be.

Incorporeal: You've lost yourself. You can't feel anything. No skin, no blood, no organs. You can only really sense the vague nature of the room your spirit is inhabiting. If you want to move you just think of yourself as going to that location, and if you want to pick something up you just think of yourself as lifting it. Even your appearance is no more than a sort of hologram, able to be changed at but a thought. You feel strangely comfortable this way. Nothing can hurt you now. It takes a bit of time, you have to focus on how you look a bit to look in a way that feels really you, but it eventually feels way more like you then anything in your old body did. It's weird, your old form just felt like a vessel that you needed, but in leaving it you feel entirely free, like you just don't need that type of body anymore. You look at your old body, lying dead upon the floor, and you can't help but know that that just isn't you anymore.

Lycanthrope: It was slow harnessing the changes. The werewolf who bit you didn't tell you much when she passed on her curse. It's something you can work will, you slowly figured out how to harness small changes, modular yet more modular as time passes on. You can just give yourself the eyes, or ears, or teeth, or feet, if you need to by now. Decide exactly what is wolf and what is human. It's more normal not that you realize how fluid your body is, that every part is just a single state that part can be in and not it's permanent fate. You can choose how much of a wolf you are at any time and that's fine and normal now. And sometimes you like fully being a wolf, like how it feels to run on all fours, how it feels to taste meat freshly on your teeth, how it feels to howl at the moon. You also like being a full human at other times, especially now that that doesn't constrain you anymore. Most of the time you're just something else though. Most of the time you're just you, not wolf or human but something your own.

Cyborg: You can feel parts of your body being cut away. You don't know why but it doesn't bother you as much as you thought it would. Your legs being painlessly sliced off, those legs that hurt when you walked on them. You can feel your torso having it's organs slowly drained out of it, no more stomach pain as you have no more stomach, no more shortness of breath as your lungs become medical waste. Your fat and muscles and bone are cut from your body, leaving your body type null. A mask of sorts is closed over your skull as the skin of your face, a face you were once stuck with for your entire life, is finally taken away. And in your discarded body parts place new mechanical parts are added, and these parts are finally your own, you picked out the designs, you control exactly how they look, the art style that your new body will be drawn in, the form your form will be able to take. And if there's anything you dislike, it can always be replaced, you can't be trapped in your body anymore, and you can't be hurt by it now.

Melted: You can feel your new form, slowly writhing like the slimes you felt before did. You have no distinct parts, no bones, no limbs, no organs. All you have is the form. It feels weird, you see and feel so much differently now it can barely feel like seeing or feeling at all. It's like playing with goo in your hands, but you don't have hands anymore. Slowly but surely, you sculpt yourself a new appearance, allowing your body to be something to thrive in instead of just something to survive within. You can't control your color but everything else is up to you. It's like sculpting, even limbs and heads and eyes are all metaphors when it comes to this new universal substance that is your form. You're not sure how others will see you when you're something so strange, but you like what this means for yourself, at least for now.

Flight: Your arms have slowly been stretched out, each of your fingers longer than your entire arm once was on both hands, and this strange tight skin between them. Your body is strong in some places, but weirdly skinny in others, it all feels so different, so new. Your feet have been changed to work more like hands, now that your arms can't be used to grasp, and walking is no longer as much of a requirement for you. You feel weird, like everything is there, but it's hard to see how it all fits together. Still, now that you do get to fly it's wonderful, seeing the ground below you, seeing the sky above you, feeling so free while you're completely in the air, seeing how impressed everyone is looking at you doing that. Maybe it was worth it. Despite how much it takes getting used to you don't dislike how any of it feels, and despite what some people might think of it, it feels so nice to be able to just go through the air like that without anything restraining you anymore. You wouldn't go back at the very least.

Mind upload: You can't feel anything. But you can see, the image of what you'd expect a computer monitor to display take up the totality of your vision. You can't feel a mouse or keyboard or anything, but you can move the cursor as much as you once could move limbs. If you hadn't asked for this it would seem like the worst of punishments, but this was your desire. You can look at any website you want, and no longer do you have to worry about time, about food, about sleep. You can contact anyone online just as you once did, without any breaks. The mortal world is no longer your worry.

Limbs become longer: You know you won't be like the other giants; you'll be somewhat in-between, you're not sure if you are thankful of that fact or not. It's a lot to deal with either way. You can feel you skin and bone stretching oddly, your arms and legs doubling then tripling in their length. It hurts but you can think of all the ways you won't be human anymore. You won't fit into most spaces; you'll need certain accommodations. But you still want this despite everything that it implies. It feels strange when your torso changes, with your limbs it's just bone that's moving, but with this you can feel your organs extending and changing. Too late to change things now. You wonder how people will see you? Will they be scared? Maybe that's what you want from them now?

Pyromancy: You can feel the burning inside you now. Even when you don't focus on it in any way it's in you, your warmth, your blood always hot, the feeling with every breath that you could shoot out fire. Other people with powers need to learn how to extend them to be actually useful, not you, you had to learn how to keep yours under control. It just feels right, to be able to use fire, to feel the fire as part of your body whenever you pass by any. You find yourself fidgeting with it easily, letting the fire move alongside you, because it's just so natural. You'll light up a bit in your hands, or around your face, in the middle of conversation. It doesn't burn you anymore, it feels good, it feels better than almost anything else you've felt in your life to feel fire on your body now. A few people are afraid, but you try to keep yourself calm. Even so, it feels so good to let it burst out of you, to shoot balls of fire into the air, or breath it from your mouth, it's hard to go a long time without doing something like that. It's not just something you have but it's part of you, it's part of you that was always meant to be there perhaps.

Frog: You slowly feel yourself shrink down. It dawns on you that you're going to change a lot. But you've said your last goodbyes to your humanity either way. You can feel your hair and teeth falling out, your bones reshaping and getting smaller and more delicate. Your biology completely changing. It's a lot to get used to and it all happens within a few seconds. For a moment you're worried you'll lose your human mind, but it just doesn't happen, mentally, emotionally, you're entirely the same as you always were. But you don't have to worry about human things anymore. Frogs don't have to work jobs, or pay taxes, or pay rent, you're allowed to finally just be. When you choose to go naked, and walk on all fours, you don't even have to let on that you're human at all anymore. You can exist in peace as long as you exist and forgo the responsibility of human things unless you choose to want them.

Demon: You feel the last of your human blood get replaced with the blood of that creature. It hurts for a moment, but then you stop feeling such pain, you feel a tyle of prowess you haven't felt before. Your eyes glow, you can just feel that they glow now. Your human form begins to change, perfectly growing into your ideal body type and look, and everything feels so right. And then things go beyond just that human form. Horns grow from your head, and your teeth grow sharp, you can always feel them, even when you aren't paying attention, and it makes you feel so very cool. Your reproductive organs are replaced with a neck and head of a serpent, completely genderless, but more able to feel pleasure somehow. Wings grow on your back, and you flex them, feeling the strangeness and wonder of having new limbs and joints. You grow a scorpion like tail from the base of your spine, that equally feels so strange and wonderful and new to move. You can shapeshift back into any human form when you need to, you can even effect what people do and don't recognize as your old self, but this form, your truly demonic form, that's what truly feels like it's you.

Murder: you can kill now. No description needed.

[felixravinstills]

Diana Ring and Livia Cardew at the 10th Annual Reaping Celebration

—The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

[crystalfic]

Tales and Transformations

Shanna narrowed her eyes at the Dungeon Master, who was currently paging through one of the manuals with a serene smile on her face. That smile meant trouble.

Their characters had ended up (again) in the local tavern, ostensibly to gather information. Knowing their DM, there would be information here, but the question was who she'd chosen as the sexy lamp this time. The bartender? A bit obvious, but she'd done it before. The stable hand? The pot boy? The young men serving tables? The pretty elf sitting alone in one corner?

Across the table, Melinda draw a breath. "Bartender!" she cried, deepening her voice to her imagined version of her orc warlock. "Another round!" Gleefully in character, she smacked the DM's kitchen table, a sturdy wooden thing that had survived dozens of D&D games, and Shanna half twisted in her seat to ask their DM's husband for more drinks.

The table cracked with a hollow splintering sound, dice jumping off the table and character sheets fluttering into the air.

The game group stared wide-eyed at the crack in the table, which currently held at least three D4s nestled into the split, and turned as one to look at Melinda.

"I am so, so sorry, I don't know how I did that," Melinda babbled, her voice sounding a little muffled; maybe she was trying to keep her stomach contents in place, she'd certainly gone a bit green.

Honestly, Shanna didn't know either. Melinda was five foot four and light enough for Shanna to pick up and carry around, and she'd never shown that kind of strength before.

"You must have been working out," the DM's husband Tim said, looking as impressed as a man can be when he's holding a jug of chilled juice. "Don't worry, we were planning to replace the table anyway." Calmly, he righted the empty plastic tumblers that they used for D&D sessions and refilled them. "If the adventuring party needs cookies, let me know."

Shanna chugged half of the cup in one go, then fished her favorite glittery D4 out of its wooden grave. "Right. Whose turn is it again?"

Rose, their paladin, shook her head and did the same. "Still Melinda's, I think."

Gameplay resumed; after getting some information out of the pickpocket who tried to steal from Shanna's tabaxi rogue, the party ventured forth into the Caves of Whatever Name The DM Made Up. They were promptly attacked by goblins, who were justifiably annoyed at a bunch of blundering explorers stumbling through their living space and blinding them with Rose's casting of Daylight.

With apologies tendered and a new map provided (so that the tall fools would not stumble into Goblin territory again), the party continued on.

The sound of a footstep made Shanna blink, and her ear twitched slightly as she turned to look at the intruder. Even before she saw him, she knew from the faint smell of soap and shaving foam that it was Tim, and the scent of chocolate said he bore cookies.

"Whoa, Shanna, where'd you get the contact lenses?" Tim asked, setting the plate down on the damaged table. "Are they meant to make your eyes all reflective? You looked like a cat for a moment." A flare of light made her squint. "And Julie, love, I appreciate your love of authenticity, but there's no need to sit in the dark."

"But we weren't," Julie the DM said, shaking her head as if to wake herself up.

But they had been. Somehow, they'd all been able to see as clearly as if the sun was shining.

"Thanks for the cookies, Tim," Rose said with a smile, reaching for the plate. The fingertips of her gauntlet closed lightly around a cookie, leaving smudges of chocolate on the metal (it should be plastic).

Shanna met Rose's eyes, seconds before her helmet closed them away.

Shanna met Melinda's eyes, and under artificial light the green tint to her skin was unmistakable.  

Shanna met Julie's eyes, and Julie reached out to brush Shanna's hair away from her ear.

Her pointed, furry ear.