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edgeperspectives: Why People in Cities Walk Fast Cities speed everything up
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theatlantic: The Science of Quieter Cities Could we design better places where we could all live together without hearing quite so much of each other? And just what would that sound like? These aren’t questions only for apartment-dwellers. Obnoxious city noise comes from all around us, moving between buildings and through windows and across congested roads. If we don’t tame it„ people may never willingly rearrange themselves into the denser living patterns environmentalists say we need. “People think, ‘Oh we need electricity from solar panels, we need x-y-z system, we need to use less water,”  Thomas Jones, the dean of Cal Poly’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, says. “But we absolutely have to make living in denser urban environments pleasant to the senses, or we’ll lose the environmental battle.” Maybe it’s time to start looking at townhouses and bus shelters with the same acoustic care engineers have long given to concert halls and schools. In doing so, it’s possible we could make the city sound not just quieter – but, in a very real way, more pleasant. Read more at The Atlantic Cities. [Image: Shutterstock]
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thiscitycalledearth: by Michael Ellis, Loveland, CO.
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nevver: The Geography of Stuck “Nearly six in ten Americans live in the state where they were born, according to the U.S. Census bureau. But there is considerable variation from state to state, as the map (above) by Zara Matheson of the Martin Prosperity Institute shows. More than three quarters of the people in Louisiana (78.9 percent), Michigan (76.6 percent) and Ohio (75.1 percent) were born there, as opposed to just 24.3 percent of Nevadans, 35.2 percent of Floridians, 37.2 percent of the residents of Washington, D.C., and 37.7 percent of Arizonans. A high level of home-grown residents is also indicative of a lack of inflow of new people.”
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thiscitycalledearth: tbare: by Terry Barentsen, San Francisco.
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ghostof: Lit Lot (by mark banaag art)
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hatethefuture: Coal Companies Defend Highway Removal Mining
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theblueviolet: This guy is fishing in our housing development’s man-made pond… but I’m pretty sure there are no fish in it.  Sad.
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