Category: Urban Life

Sitting on Lake Ontario, Toronto’s skyscrapers, neighbourhoods and natural beauty form the backdrop for a potpourri of cultures. Rachel Lissner reveals the best of the city, from the Caribbean festivals to the Japanese rockabilly bars… You’ve seen it in movies as New York, Chicago, Washington DC, and even Moscow, but it’s not just Toronto’s appearance…

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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Of all the global disasters that could happen, probably the most likely is a pandemic. We know this because pandemics happen on a regular basis. They’ve happened before, and they will happen again, especially if humans keep making contact with wildlife and operating wet markets. That’s why when the Covid-19…

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Last post we looked at parallel subways throughout North America and examined how the distance between them might aid in the Bay Area’s hoped for new subways, especially a second transbay rail crossing. We applied it to Oakland. This time we look at San Francisco to see how it might apply there. San Francisco clearly needs an…

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Michael Shu, Unsplash. Partner Post Even city dwellers with limited outdoor space can maximize functionality by transforming those small footprints into areas with multiple uses for gardening, cooking, relaxing, and entertaining. From Greenery to Gathering SpotIs the balcony a garden or meditation space? Is the patio a place for cooking and dining al fresco or…

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How to grow juicy eggplants in containers — even when the summer heat is blazing! Eggplant, aubergine, brinjal—whatever you call it, this glossy purple veggie is a superstar in Filipino kitchens. Whether it’s fried in crispy tortang talong, grilled for inihaw, or sautéed in pinakbet, eggplant is a versatile and delicious staple. But here’s something…

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img { border: 10px solid #FFFFFF; } Very glad to share our new paper, this one led by Shiv Yücel, in collaboration with Pedro Peixoto, and Chico Camargo. In case you’d like a pocket version of the paper, early last year Chico posted a really nice thread on Twitter summarizing some of the key contributions…

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The concepts of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), Vertical Farming and New Food Systems have become global topics of the future and dynamically developing markets. In times of climate change and increasingly frequent extreme weather phenomena, the aim of controlled environment agriculture is to find innovative solutions to global challenges such as food security, resource scarcity…

Read More “Vertical Farming as a catalyst for climate protection measures and innovationKnowledge transfer and networking are the focus in Munich – Urban Ag News” »

It was in Amsterdam last year when my friend, a french urbanist Julien Carbonnell, and I have decided to organize an exploration journey throughout the multiple African cities. Living in the Netherlands, I was becoming more and more curious about the important part of the world which I had been so mentally distant from —…

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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 are featuring Los Angeles as our theme this month. This is our third post; you can see others from this month as they are published as well as past pieces on the city…

Read More “Los Angeles and the Chicano Movement in the Raul Ruiz Papers – The Metropole” »

All images CC-BY-NC 4.0 2025 This sequel further questions the relationship between art and ads. Are they compatible? Are they at war? Benjamin argues: “But as soon as the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applied to artistic production, the whole social function of art is revolutionized. Instead of being founded on ritual, it is…

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