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…
“Introduction to Greenhouse Environmental Control for Crop Production” is a 14-week certificate course designed and offered by ADVANCEA. The course will provide students with foundational information about the essentials of greenhouse environment control for a variety of commonly-grown crops. Based on our previous experience offering this course, it was substantially revised and improved with the aim of…
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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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After 93 years of being on windscreens up and down the UK, the tax disc has become obsolete, today on 1st October. The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair aim to give the tax disc a new lease of life and have teamed up with some of Britain’s leading artists to turn them into limited edition…
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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…
Are you thinking about making the switch to natural hair dye (aka henna)? If so, here are 11 Things To Know Before Using Henna Hair Dye! I’ve been using henna on my hair for the last few years, minus a quick blip when I decided to lighten my hair last summer, only to then return…
In October 2016, 40000 people gathered in Quito, Ecuador, for the United Nations Habitat III Conference. Unlike other UN processes that focus on national government engagement, “H3” also saw 5000 city leaders make their voices heard, meeting in Quito and Bogotá (Colombia) at related local government events. They did so to ensure the final document adopted, the…
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James’ fixed gear bike in China – Photo by James Schwartz / The Urban Country Wow. It has been an inexcusable amount of time since I last wrote an article on here. For the past two and a half months I have been living overseas in the southern most part of China (Hainan Island). I…
The Metropole Bookshelf is an opportunity for authors of forthcoming or recently published books to let the UHA community know about their new work in the field. By Joseph Godlewski I was trained to be suspicious of origins. The search for metaphysical starting points has always seemed haunted by romantic essentialist beliefs and fraught with…
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