Category: Urban Life

The view looking down into the park from the entrance above. Updated February 2025 The model for its contemporary American cousin, The High Line, Paris’s Promenade Plantée––also known as the Coulée Verte or “Flowing Green”––was the world’s first and only elevated park before its New York relative spawned numerous followers, including Chicago’s Bloomingdale Trail, Philadelphia’s Reading Viaduct, Rotterdam’s…

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Summer in the Philippines can get extreme at times and this leads to premature bolting for some vegetable crops, like lettuce. Thankfully, local seed companies have developed slow-bolting variants that are heat resistant. These hybrid seeds adapt well in hot climates, like what we have here in Manila, so we can now enjoy our lettuce…

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img { border: 10px solid #FFFFFF; } uci is an R package to measure the centrality of cities and regions. The package implements the Urban Centrality Index (UCI) originally proposed by Pereira et al. (2013). UCI measures the extent to which the spatial organization of a city varies from extreme monocentric to extreme polycentric in…

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Shortage of trained labor is a challenge for all growers. Today’s production methods are increasingly technical, and staff need to know the why of their day-to-day work. Providing young employees with professional development opportunities is also a great way to increase staff retention. To meet these needs, University of Florida IFAS Extension (UF/IFAS) has an…

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How will digital innovation help cities navigate these uncharted waters? Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Digital Innovation in cities has been an area of focus for years. Over time, how we understand the term has also gradually evolved, with the pace of change accelerating notably as we sped towards the 2020s. Where previously the cutting edge…

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As a third chapter of the African urban exploration of Traveling Circus of Urbanism, I came to the capital city of Cameroon, Yaundé! The city spreads over 7 hills, and after being a geographically flat city like Lomé, it feels refreshing to observe the wavy patterns of the landscapes. There is something mysterious and appealing…

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For dinner tonight, whip up the BEST Homemade Beef Enchiladas to enjoy a meal full of flavour. These Beef Enchiladas are made with deliciously seasoned ground beef, red enchilada sauce, cheddar cheese, and more. Read, cook, and enjoy! Is there anything better than big-batch meals that are full of flavour, and also leave you with…

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Editor’s Note: This is the fifth post in our theme for February 2025, “Celluloid City,” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here. By Shruti Hussain We lock eyes with a stream of children, of women and men, peering straight at the camera…

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I truly detest promotion-based blog posts, yet recognize that it is a very necessary part of being a freelance writer and artist. Having said this, please allow me to bring you up to speed, which I’ve had on my to do list since mid November 2021, as I wanted to let my readers know I’ve…

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Andrea Lipps, editor, Daniel Devlin book design: An Atlas of Es Devlin. Thames and Hudson 2023. ISBN 9780500023181 Books I was reviewing in 2024 The most fascinating exhibition I never saw is and was the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s New York show An Atlas of Es Devlin. The focus of my review is thus…

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