#urbanising

[lovotomii]

the Brazilian Miku spin-off arts are funny in a way. for all the other nations across the world you have these elegant folk costumes they're putting Miku in, then as soon as you get to the UK and USA, it's all sports wear

[retrogeographie]

Gif-sur-Yvette, quartier de Chevry.

[lewis-mumfords-ghost]

[tiffanyachings]

d20 mentopolis is great because it takes one of my favourite tropes (what if a city was a living creature) and puts it on its head (what if a living creature was operated by a city)

[kommabortsig]

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[judeniriain8]

Urbanisation and the Death of Wildlife (Beauty) (09/06/24) By Jude Ní Riain

Do you still remember the flutter of butterfly wings In the corner of your eye? Some orange, others pristine white.

Do you still remember Counting the spots of ladybirds When you'd hold them carefully? 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

Do you still remember Birds chirping through early hours Not being drowned out by planes? A little harmony to start your day.

Do you think our children will know Of the beauty of butterfly wings, The joy of counting spots, And the melody of birdsong?

Or will our children only know them Because of our faded memories And movies from the "olden" days Filled with sound and colour

Will they only remember The grey colour of concrete, The counting of litter, And the song of early traffic?

[threadsun]

Okay but like the thing is. So Nick and Alan, right? Nick is basically—like if you imagine Alan was Raised In A Society and like... was normal-ish? That's sorta Nick? Not really. But like.. okay it's really just that they're both the same. Specifically. Like with. Okay okay they're both pervy lil creeps who stalk their Person and are deeply weird and obsessive about it and also have Very Specific kinks, but also they sorta just try to act at least a little normal and vibe with their Person at first? They're both Aware of the concept of bonding and getting to know people before immediately proposing or whatever. But they're also both like one interaction away from kidnapping their Person. idk idk this made more sense in my head but like. Nick Herraras and Alan Orion are like the same type of yandere but in completely different situations.

[radlymona]

Something I hate is that when I see people from school who go on summer m euro trips, they’ll post pictures of locals on balconies as if it’s meant to be a cool artsy but comes off looking they’re borderline zoo animals from the photographer’s perspective

[hexenangelvoid]

Glorious ivory walls and towers

Tick(s) tox, clicks clocks

Think that they contain the power

Rip off, rest lofts

Yearning for anima

Inter species living

They play dead with capital demons

Animals carrying symbols of

Dead animals

Yearning for anima

Glorious ivory walls and towers

Time to open your gates and portals

[saa-na]

would love to study how public sex and public displays of affection have become fringe and frowned upon through public space becoming privatized and how the camera phone panopticon impacts the way we use public spaces. so excited to learn more about urban history through my research assistant position.

[mochatears]

The fact that there are languages that exist right now that are dying is really depressing.

[lewis-mumfords-ghost]

"in what sense were [Çatal Hüyük's] men and women "urban"? ... They were not burdened by the anonymity and awesome sense of personal isolation that is the most characteristic trait of the modern urban dweller. In some sense, they were "protocitizens" of a highly articulated and richly textured community in which a high sense of collectivity, ... was integrated with the civic facts of politically defined rights and duties"

-Murray Bookchin

[indizombie]

Dalits and Adivasis should not be identified only as the poor and migrant working class that is dependent upon the benevolence of corporate social responsibility for their livelihood. Instead, these groups should be advanced as the essential components of urbanisation, industrial production and technological innovations. More affirmative action policies are required to democratise the niche sphere of big businesses so that the Dalit-Adivasi class should also emerge as industrialists, market leaders and crucial influencers in the global economy.

Harish Wankhede, ‘The Ambedkar touch in rethinking social justice policies’, Hindu

[blodeuweddschild]

“Forests” made up of 100s of trees of the exact same species, evenly spaced far enough a part that two people could walk between them shoulder to shoulder, are one of the most idiotic and performative things I have ever seen done in regards to trying to protect the environment. I can’t even try be nice and understanding about it cause it’s not just an oops they didn’t get it, they’re just making shit worse by doing that

[czolgosz]

popular music is so industrial revolution. i just thought of this this morning

[whencyclopedfr]

Mésopotamie: Émergence des villes

Il était une fois, dans le pays connu sous le nom de Sumer, un peuple qui décida de construire un temple pour son dieu qui avait vaincu les forces du chaos et ramené l'ordre dans le monde. Ils construisirent ce temple à un endroit appelé Eridu, qui était "l'un des sites les plus méridionaux, à l'extrême limite de la plaine fluviale alluviale et à proximité des marais: la zone de transition entre la mer et la terre, avec ses cours d'eau changeants, ses îles et ses profonds fourrés de roseaux" (Leick, 2).

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