Category: Urban Life

In the GraffitiStreet Concrete & Colour Group Show, artist Sophie Mess brings two beautiful floral artworks that invite us to contemplate both the cosmic and the earthly, the grand and the intimate, in deeply personal ways. GraffitiStreet Presents Concrete & Colour 2025 Nebula Rose: The Cosmos Meets the Garden In Nebula Rose, Sophie Mess crafts a luminous bridge between…

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Image credit: The Glorious Studio (pexels.com) In an era defined by conscious choices and technological marvels, the allure of diamonds has evolved from traditional mined stones to innovative lab-grown alternatives. Millennials and Gen Z, known for their distinct preferences and values, are at the forefront of this shift. Here’s why choosing lab-grown diamonds over naturally…

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885: Michael Olson on the Three Laws of the Food Chain In This Podcast: In This Podcast: Greg interviews Michael Olson, a returning guest and influential figure in the food system. Michael shares his background as a Montana farm boy, Vietnam veteran, and author of Metro Farm. Then they jump into Michael’s ‘Three Laws of…

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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes When disaster strikes, we worry about what we’ll do for food, water, power, and so forth. But it’s often injuries that create the biggest problems. Without first aid supplies, things like cuts, burns, infections, allergic reactions, dehydration, and broken bones can quickly escalate into serious conditions. It’s not enough to…

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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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Lemon basil lemonade, mint iced tea, and other refreshing ways to use your herbs. Let’s be honest — the Philippine summer hits different. The sun feels like it’s just one foot away from your face, the air is thick enough to chew, and even your plants look begging for halo-halo. But there’s one sweet silver…

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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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– Transaction creates new joint-venture in the North American produce industry backed by private investment firms – – Parties intend to provide additional capital to execute a roll-up strategy of other produce assets and operations –  Lake Mary, FL, June 2, 2025 – Vanguard Food LP, a privately-held produce industry joint venture between Kennedy  Lewis…

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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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Light The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest, now in its ninth year, exists to support graduate students in exploring short form, publicly-oriented writing in history as a way to teach beyond the classroom, develop marketable skills, and promote the enduring value of the humanities. This year’s theme is Light We are looking for…

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