Hacker News with Generative AI: Cities

The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup (worksinprogress.news)
Professor Donald Shoup died on February 6th. M. Nolan Gray explains how his mentor changed political economy of parking, and cities themselves, forever.

Urban Planning, Cities, Economics, Obituaries

321 points by herbertl 8 days ago | 303 comments

Osaka bans smoking on all of its streets, vaping included (soranews24.com)
Japan’s third-largest city expands smoking ban ahead of world’s fair.

Japan, Public Health, Smoking, Vaping, Cities

114 points by askl 23 days ago | 78 comments

A sprawling megacity of multi-level madness (theguardian.com)
This megacity is like Hong Kong on steroids – a vertically sprawling, astonishing urban phenomenon that can only be understood in three dimensions

Urban Planning, Architecture, Hong Kong, Cities

20 points by prawn 31 days ago | 8 comments

Good cities can't exist without public order (noahpinion.blog)
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I’m a huge fan of dense, walkable cities. Much of my enthusiasm comes from living in Japan for several years, and I’ve written a bunch of posts about why Japanese cities are so especially great. Here was the most relevant one for today’s post:

Urban Planning, Japan, Cities

33 points by paulpauper 59 days ago | 42 comments

Bogotá’s open streets program is the oldest and most successful (slate.com)
BOGOTÁ, Colombia—At 4 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, Jerson Osorio stood at the center of several thousand traffic signs, speed bumps, and hip-high yellow cones.

Urban Planning, Cities, Transportation, Colombia, Sustainability

54 points by rntn 60 days ago | 9 comments

City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once (anvaka.github.io)

Mapping, Tools, Cities, Software, Visualization

471 points by gaws 61 days ago | 59 comments

AI Data Centers May Consume More Electricity Than Entire Cities (cnbc.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Energy Consumption, Environment, Data Centers, Cities

58 points by belter 89 days ago | 80 comments

India is turning into an SUV country (economist.com)
GETTING TO BANGALORE, India’s startup capital, is easy: arrive at the gorgeous new garden-themed terminal, collect your bags, and zip down the buttery smooth National Highway 44 into the city. Getting around Bangalore is another matter. It is the most heavily gridlocked city in India, with average speeds during rush hour of 18kph (11mph), according to TomTom, a navigation-technology firm.

India, Transportation, Traffic, Cities, Urban Planning

8 points by alephnerd 97 days ago | 1 comments

Review of Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World (nybooks.com)
From 1919 to 1934, socialist Vienna was guided by the “critical rationalism” and the pluralist, collaborative ethos of its thinkers and planners, whose influence endured long after they lost power.

History, Cities, Politics, Philosophy

159 points by mitchbob 106 days ago | 134 comments

The realities of building an IPv6-only city – APNIC (apnic.net)

Networking, IPv6, Cities

17 points by voxadam 113 days ago | 8 comments

Walt Disney Was Right; Our Cities' Problems Are Our Biggest Problems (population.fyi)
"I don't believe there is a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities" - Walt Disney

Urban Planning, Cities, Population, Society, Quotes

11 points by daveland 154 days ago | 2 comments

Development from the outside in: Can Irvine become a central city? (scottsumner.substack.com)
Cities have been around for thousands of years. As far as I know, all cities have developed in essentially the same way---from the inside out. From a small central area, development gradually spreads to more outlying districts. Orange County is an extremely unusual place---a metro area that is developing from the outside in.

Urban Planning, Cities, Orange County, California, Geography

14 points by surprisetalk 155 days ago | 8 comments

Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous ride-hailing to Austin and Atlanta (waymo.com)
Get ready, Austin and Atlanta!

Autonomous Vehicles, Partnerships, Transportation, Ride-hailing, Cities

34 points by ra7 160 days ago | 50 comments

A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow (bloomberg.com)

Switzerland, Advertising, Cities, Urban Planning, Policy

671 points by toomuchtodo 210 days ago | 594 comments

The most, and least, walkable cities (economist.com)

Cities, Walkability, Urban Planning, Data Analysis

55 points by pavel_lishin 210 days ago | 31 comments

Metal thieves in America's cities (nytimes.com)