Planning for Urban Climate Adaptation
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https://courses.gisopencourseware.org/course/view.php?id=65 <-- shared tutorial
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #training #tutorial #urban #urbanplanning #climate #climatechange #adaptation #onlinelearning #planning #course #openaccess #QGIS #opendata #remotesensing #earthobservation #water #sustainability #hydrology #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #risk #hazard #flood #grought #heatwave #publicsafety #plugins #Delft #climatehazard
The Concept Of Indigenous GIS
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Reading a paper (http://alturl.com/8wte5), they used the specific term ‘Indigenous GIS’ – and I found this intriguing!
As I read it, spatial data collection and analysis was done with a focus on how a tribe or social group might ‘see’ the data, including spatiotemporal....
I look forward to finding out more about what others are working on! – so PLEASE feel free to share any examples that you might have…
#GIS #spatial #mapping #indigenous #IndigineousGIS #FirstNation #perspective #cultural #social #naturalresources #archaeology #publicsafety #socialservices #planning #design #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #mapping #cartography #usecase #practical #pragamatic #resultsdriven #focused##
Europe’s lockdowns, five years on.
Former Milan city councilor Pierfrancesco Maran reflects on how the pandemic transformed Europe’s cities — a topic no one wants to talk about.
If problems in planning are the reason that houses are not being built, then the Govt's move to reform planning rules should contribute to ameliorating England's housing crisis...
But if the real problem is a market controlled by big developers, keen to keep prices high (by building new stock slowly), then it will have no major impact.
But in reality, these will be mostly the 'wrong' houses - the real issue continues to be the lack of social housing being built!
Very cool new effort to review and catalog the social and economic benefits of active transport investments
#BikeSky #Research #Planning #AcademicSky 
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ctijcy2p7u2bcsmqiktrshcy/post/3ljkm2kptx22e
My colleagues at TU Delft are seeking to hire a postdoc to work on Applied Planning and Scheduling under Uncertainty, with applications in modelling supply chain scenarios for offshore wind farm installation: https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Postdoc-in-Applied-Planning-and-Scheduling-under-Uncertainty-2628-CD/814890902/
#Planning query. Does anyone know what the #PermittedDevelopmentRules are for putting solar panels on a smallholding? I found this which says 12 square meters on the ground in the curtilage of an agricultural building but that is not very much (hoping to put in 12 panels) we could put some on the ground & on the roof of the stable but they’ll have to add up to 12msq. The fees even to ask a question of the council are eye watering for non-domestic use. Please #boost https://www.gov.scot/publications/circular-2-2024-non-domestic-permitted-development-rights/pages/5/
Matthew notes that the government’s assertion, that “The worsening affordability of homes is the best evidence that supply is failing to keep up with demand”, is “an assumption, exhibiting all the hallmarks of confirmational bias, and is not backed up by any evidence at all.” Or in other words, propaganda.
More on #NPPF – questionable assumptions | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/02/18/more-on-nppf-questionable-assumptions/
#planning #propaganda #growthism
Youth bicycle vs. vehicle accident in El Rio (Ventura County, California), in what might be the worst possible sidewalk/road infrastructure in the county. They don't even have sidewalks in this part of our county (traditionally, poor, Latino). These are the places where sidewalks + bicycle lanes + crosswalks would have the biggest impact on safety.
It's *that* we *can* go so far, so fast, with so much cargo in #MotorVehicles that has allowed us, and even *caused* us, to build our built #environment, our #architecture and city #planning, they way we have, to expect and demand large swaths of private real estate and ubiquitous high speed #roadways.
#Technology cannot rescue us from the problems we created by poor decision making. Only the will to regulate can do that. We must withdraw the horizon to a shorter radius for private #transport.
In the rush to rebuild, one topic is taboo: What should be built differently — or not at all?
archived: https://archive.ph/hbVZi
February's ideal for making a runner bean trench to give their roots space & access to nutrients, as they are notoriously hungry! Fill it with veg peelings, manure & cover with soil. By spring, it'll be a nutrient-rich bed for your beans. #gardening #runnerbeans #growyourown #planning #allotment
I'm #planning on #graduating in a year or so, so I'm trying to make more #friends and get more involved in the #community outside of my #school. That way, I won't be #alone after I don't have all my school friends and community around anymore. I don't know where I'll go for a #PhD, but this area is still my #home.
I'm into #gardening, #cooking, #sewing, #painting, #CreativeWriting, #reading, #VideoGames, and #anime. I'm from the #Rochester, #NY area.
Dear community: I need suggestions for an online tool that assists in the process of dividing spaces. Think of a floorplan of buildings, with rooms, hallways etc. with annotations per space. Ideally google-docs-like discussions between stakeholders at arbitrary points in the spaces. Add colors, labels, emoji to spaces. I suppose I could make something like this in Figma, but I'm sure this is not the first time someone needs such a service. #mapping #planning #spacedivision
Despite the current chaos in much of my residence, I was able to find one of my plastic over-the-door hooks.
I brought it out we tried hanging the hook over our hands: perfect size!
Then I explained my plan, which would be to cut the hook so the over-the-door part was gone and just the hand-hook would remain.
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My friend brought the phone over on the weekend to brainstorm ideas. They're very good at solving problems but know that I also frequently alter or modify things to make them work better for my own needs.
Watching the re-enactment of the elder's actions when attempting to make a call was particularly fascinating AND informative.
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Permafrost Thaw Threatens Up To 3 Million People In The Arctic
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https://phys.org/news/2025-01-permafrost-threatens-million-people-arctic.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01883-w <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #arctic #climatechange #permafrost #thaw #communities #impacts #humanimpacts #infrastructure #risk #hazard #northernhemisphere #global #threat #Sweden #greenland #alaska #yukon #russia #canada #norway #landuse #melting #ecosystems #livelihoods #firstnation #indigenous #inhabitants #population #cost #economics #policymaking #planning #management #spatialanalysis #adapation #transportation #supplies #waterquality #watersecurity #foodsecurity #disease #contaminants #multifactor #analysis #MFA #social #culture #cultural #transdisciplinary #ground #temperature #physicalprocesses #consequences #mobility #supplies #biogeochemical #water #hydrology #engineeringgeology #erosion #ecosystem #FATE
Now, #estimations are largely meaningless. What could we do instead?
Instead of dabbling in fortune telling (which as I said is what estimations are) we can instead decide how much time we’re willing to invest. It represents an upper boundary of time and therefore an upper boundary of how complex the solution may be. Shorter timeframe = less bells and whistles.
”ShapeUp” (a process framework by a company who shall not be named because they're tech bros, the bad kind) calls this "Appetite" but at the end of the day the name doesn’t really matter. What matters is that it’s meaningful (”this much time is what it’s worth to us”) and useful (”we can only do so much in that time”).
The problem with “Appetite” is that people aren’t used to it. It requires a change in how engineers think (and it requires them to actually think). But compared to #estimates it has at least the potential to be useful.
Everyone wants meaningful #estimations. Rarely are estimations meaningful. Estimations become more meaningful the further along the delivery one is. Early it’s a crapshoot and usually wrong. Estimations and fortune telling have more in common than you might expect.
So sure, we can do estimations. The questions are: when and with which level of information? How much confidence do you want in estimations? And let's ignore non-answers such as “as high as possible” because then the answer is that we do an estimation in the last week of delivery because that’s when confidence is the highest.
For me personally "meaningful" begins after technical planning. That is when the team sat down and actually planned out the work. It’s still _imagined work_ at that point - so dragons are still abundant - but it’s a good enough basis to give an educated guesstimate. Before that it’s reading tea leaves. Of course we can do it earlier but then the range (best vs worst case) will vary wildly. If that’s meaningful enough, great. If not, then that’s shit but nothing we can really do about it, unless someone on the team has a working crystal ball stashed away.
Estimations are one of these things were people love to confidently give wrong answers. It’s a self-perpetuating myth that’s largely done because it was always done and because it gives the illusion of control. Maybe that’s good enough? The illusion?
https://www.evshift.com/317549/route-planning-with-the-audi-mmi/ Route planning with the Audi MMI #audi #bev #connectivity #Design #digitalisation #digitalization #ElectricCar #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #eMobility #etron #EV #GermanEngineering #Hybrid #innovation #mmi #Performance #phev #Planning #route #sustainability #VorsprungDurchTechnik #vorsprungdurchtechnik
Greg Cocks 
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