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Urban areas host 80% of England’s homes at high risk of flooding, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/29/england-homes-high-risk-flooding-towns-cities-urban-environment-study

Really good article for urban #permaculure. #retrosuburbia https://

Report Finds IVM Can Be Greener and Less Costly for ROW Management
Urban forests are critical to the resilience and sustainability of our cities and towns, offering ecosystem services

Though I can make great pizza at home, I’m always excited for new options, especially in my neighborhood. 🍕
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/05/07/pizzeria-planned-for-burleigh-street/

Pizzeria Planned For Burleigh Street
Meenk Bros Pizza Co. plans to serve New York-style pies in former Brew City Pickles space.

Lichtverschmutzung: Die Erde wird nicht gleichmäßig heller, Europa gar dunkler
Auch wegen der zunehmenden Urbanisierung wird die Nachtseite der Erde jedes Jahr heller. Das geschieht aber viel ungleichmäßiger als bislang angenommen.

City Vibes 🎀
城市律动 🎀
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

Nice!
Urban Science Beyond Samples: Up-to-Date Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00108

Urban Science Beyond Samples: Up-to-Date Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World
Urban planners need up-to-date, global, and consistent street network models and indicators to measure resilience and performance, model accessibility, and target local quality-of-life interventions. This article presents up-to-date street network models and indicators for every urban area in the world. It uses 2025 urban area boundaries from the Global Human Settlement Layer, allowing users to join these data to hundreds of other urban attributes. Its workflow ingests 180 million OpenStreetMap…

Rare that I get a chance to dig into a passion of mine - #urban transit development!
Read about my one-time home, #Jakarta & how its transformed from the world's most congested city to a model for the global south - but there's still a long way to go.

Jakarta’s Remarkable Urban Transit Transformation – In Development
evidence and argument for a developing world

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 869 nodes and 1307 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_stre…

Avian bird flu surges in New York urban wildlife, increasing disease concerns https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/avian-bird-flu-surges-in-new-york-urban-wildlife-increasing-disease-concerns/

Avian bird flu surges in New York urban wildlife, increasing disease concerns
NEW YORK — Catherine Quayle has been caring for sick and injured wild animals in New York City for the past 12 years, first as a volunteer at the Wild Bird Fund, the city’s only wildlife rehabilitation center, and now as that NGO’s communications director and a licensed rehabber. Despite all her experience, she is […]

Heat from traffic is contributing to rises in city temperatures, study finds #environment

Heat from traffic is contributing to rises in city temperatures, study finds
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new way to measure how traffic contributes to rising urban temperatures, revealing that everyday vehicle use can play a measurable role in making cities warmer. The researchers created a new physics-based module that allows heat produced by urban traffic to be represented directly within the Community Earth System Model (CESM)—one of the world's most widely used global climate models for predicting how Earth's climate behaves.