Category: Urban Life

French-born, Barcelona-based street artist Miss Van (Vanessa Alice) is renowned for her signature sloe-eyed, moth-masked, burlesque poupées. Her wonderful ethereal muses have adorned walls around the world for more than two decades, serving as extensions of the artist’s own sensibility. On her recent travels to San Luis Potosí, Miss Van unveils a beautiful homage to surrealist Leonora Carrington, deepening her…

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During their recent show in Milan back in June, Dolce & Gabbana did something deceptively simple—something that might have made your nonna nod with nostalgic approval while your Gen Z cousin filmed it for TikTok. They sent men down the runway in pajamas. But these weren’t mere bedtime ensembles. This was a radical return to…

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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes When the power goes out, having a reliable light source is essential. Flashlights are great when you’re searching for something or going from room to room, but most of the time I prefer good old fashioned candlelight, which is why this video caught my eye. This “Forever Candle” is a…

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San Francisco will get two new parks in Mission Bay very soon: Mission Bay  Playground Kids’ Park, and Mariposa Park. Tomorrow the playground designed for residents living in Mission Bay Kids Playground will open thanks to expedited work that was approved by the Board of Supervisors earlier in June. Mission Bay Kids’ Park Playground with playground OPENING July 1, 2016!!!!! I…

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Here’s your mulberry guide restructured in the same warm, lesson-driven format — perfect for urban gardeners and curious plantitas with limited space 🌿💜   🍇 Growing Mulberries in Pots: Sweet Harvests from Small Spaces You won’t find fresh mulberries in grocery stores — their short shelf life makes them nearly impossible to sell commercially. But…

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I like figures of map layers to illustrate the many different types of data sets we combine to do urban and transport modeling. And oftentimes I get obsessed with like making maps that are reproducible with code in R. In this post I’ll be sharing a reproducible example showing how to create a figure of…

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Registration is Now Open! Learn the essentials of soilless production of strawberry under greenhouse and indoor controlled environment! Online Learning by Live Lectures (Sept. 18 & 25) and/or by lecture recordings This course offers all the keys to learn soilless production of strawberry under greenhouse and indoor controlled environment. Contents include strawberry physiology, cultivar selection, production…

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This essay was written by Leo Porte, who researches the revitalisation of marginal areas in Japan. He volunteers and investigate citizen based initiatives in Kamagasaki, which has the largest concentration of poverty, homelessness, and welfare recipients in all of Japan. You can also read another article here by him. On March 31st, 2019, Osaka City…

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Editor’s note: In anticipation of what we all believe will be a stellar UHA conference this October 9-12 in Los Angeles, we featured Los Angeles as our theme in May. With the conference still in mind, we want to continue to highlight the city in the run up to the event; you can see other…

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Dr Chloe Cannell, University of South Australia Image: ‘Kilburn history mural’, 2025, photograph. Source: Chloe Cannell  Growing up my friends and I would remark that you could watch the class decline on the G10 bus ride from the city to Gepps Cross—though I’m sure we used cruder phrasing than class, like ‘rich’ to ‘povo’. The…

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