Category: Urban Life

In a market with high-tech e-bikes coming up with more and more gadgets, Priority Bicycles has launched the Glide—a pared-down electric model aimed squarely at the casual, everyday rider. The Glide is a new addition to the brand’s lineup of low-maintenance, belt-driven bikes, offering a modest yet functional feature set intended to make urban commuting…

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The river is never still and in Helen Bur’s latest mural painted for the MURArcos Festival in Arcos De Valdevez, neither are we. Titled Connected Rivers // Water Knows No Borders, the mural gently ripples with deeper meaning. It’s a meditation on movement, memory, and mutuality, and a visual reminder that what flows through us connects…

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Image by Jeffry S.S. from pexels.com  In a move that’s equal parts strategic and spirited, Jetstar Airways has announced two new direct international routes from Australia to the Philippines—Brisbane to Cebu and Perth to Manila—set to launch in late 2025.  For budget-conscious travellers, diaspora communities, and tropical dreamers alike, this expansion is more than a…

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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Even if you’ve already stocked up on basic first aid supplies, there’s a good chance a few important items slipped under your radar. It’s easy to focus on the obvious supplies and forget about some of the lesser-known tools that can still make a big difference in a medical emergency….

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Talk of a 2nd Transbay Rail Crossing has gained a bit of a bump in the last few weeks due to a few new things: BART’s announcement that it will reduce service in the Transbay Tube for several months (VERIFY DETAILS) to seismically upgrade the tunnel. The UC Berkeley Transportation Studio presented its findings on…

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Discover the heirloom leafy green that’s peppery, pretty, and perfect for your next salad. One of the unexpected joys I’ve discovered in my gardening journey? Uncovering the stories behind the plants I grow. Because sometimes, vegetables aren’t just ingredients — they carry with them culture, history, and heritage. Take mizuna, for example. This lovely green…

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img { border: 5px solid #FFFFFF; } The topic of day 5 in the #30DayMapChallenge is ‘OpenStreetMap’. So here is a quick reproducible example showing how one can use OpenStreetMap data and the r5r package to calculate travel times. options(java.parameters = "-Xmx4G") library(r5r) library(geobr) library(sf) library(ggplot2) library(here) library(osmextract) library(data.table) library(magrittr) # create subdirectories "data" and…

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“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Alzheimer’s is a degenerative condition that’s on the rise, and is affecting more than 50 million people worldwide. Signs of the disease could start in middle age with memory loss and cognitive impairment, leading to significant behavioral changes. There…

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Photo by Sandy Ravaloniaina on Unsplash Call for participants Democracy Studio & for Cities collaborating with Traveling Circus of Urbanism on urban exploration trip in Africa from October 2021 to July 2022 The African continent will host one-third of the world population in the next generation and went these last years through social, economical, and…

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By Peter Blackmer Editor’s note: This is the third post in our annual Digital Summer School for 2025, where we highlight projects in the digital humanities. You can read other posts in the series here. In early 2013, Michigan governor Rick Snyder declared a financial emergency in Detroit, which gave him the power under a…

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