Hacker News with Generative AI: City Planning

It's Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health (wired.com)
Oppressive, unstimulating urban architecture isn’t just about eyesores; there’s evidence that it can cause actual harm to its residents. To fix this in 2025, we must start building for joy.

Urban Design, Health, Architecture, City Planning

7 points by botanicals6 12 days ago | 2 comments

Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free (twitter.com)

Tokyo, Open Data, City Planning

314 points by taubek 25 days ago | 40 comments

How Boston City Hall was born (bostonglobe.com)

History, Boston, Architecture, City Planning

67 points by goles 31 days ago | 116 comments

SpaceX Seeks Approval to Turn Texas Starbase Site into New City (bloomberg.com)
Elon Musk is attempting to turn the Starbase site in Texas where SpaceX builds its Starship rockets into a new city and officially move his space company there.

Space Exploration, SpaceX, City Planning, Texas, Elon Musk

31 points by JumpCrisscross 36 days ago | 45 comments

Chicago's State Capacity Crisis (citythatworks.substack.com)
In March, Chicago’s Progressive Caucus made a painful observation: voters believe that city government just isn’t functioning.

Chicago, Politics, Government, Local Government, City Planning

14 points by paulpauper 45 days ago | 2 comments

'Our plan worked': How Vienna prepared itself for a 5k-year flood (bbc.com)
Storm Boris is the latest deluge in one of the most flood-plagued periods in Europe in the past 500 years, but one city escaped relatively unscathed.

Flooding, Climate Change, City Planning, Europe

3 points by Brajeshwar 118 days ago | 1 comments

The Minneapolis Street Grid: Explained (streets.mn)
When I moved to Minneapolis from upstate New York last year, I found myself puzzled by the layout of the streets and avenues across the city.

Minneapolis, City Planning, Urban Design, Geography, Transportation

139 points by Renevith 128 days ago | 62 comments

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (lrb.co.uk)

Transportation, City Planning, Urban Design

212 points by Thevet 129 days ago | 137 comments

City Infrastructure (cityinfrastructure.com)

City Planning, Infrastructure, Urban Development

3 points by dTal 138 days ago | 0 comments

Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city (arstechnica.com)

Game Design, Pixel Art, City Planning, Retro Games

8 points by YesBox 168 days ago | 0 comments

'SimCity' Isn't a Model of Reality. It's a Libertarian Toy Land (wired.com)