#megacities

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Steinar Lund, Morris Scott Dollens, Ray Feibush, and Robert McCall.

[luxradium]

Some seriously beautiful cover for Metropolis from the always amazing @michaelhirshon. It's stuff like this that makes me so excited to create a show that rises to the level of its own cover art. :D Metropolis! A thirteen episode audio drama, coming later in 2024. Nobody ever dies in Metropolis. Spend a minute here. See if we're not wrong.

[doctorslippery]

[k7muru]

The next stage of easing of lockdown restrictions is almost upon London. Streets that are usually packed with people have now laid empty for almost 4 months due to the Covid-19 second wave. On April 12, retail outlets will re-open with food and beverage outlets allowing outdoor patrons. London will move into a post-pandemic era where urban spaces will start to evolve to re-define its purpose in a megacity. It remains to be seen how this next period of growth (or otherwise) will shape the future of London.

[jerseydeanne]

From Kitty: Please watch this short video about how it will be under the Great Reset. We have three videos on this subject that were done in Sept 2011.

Tell me what you think?

[probablyasocialecologist]

The growth of megacities is not a natural phenomenon. It is the result of a plan, one whose human-made outlines are concealed by naturalistic metaphors that turn the topology constructed by political and economic forces into preexisting contours of the social landscape. Moreover, it is a plan for catastrophe. Poor countries simply lack adequate resources to construct these planners’ dream cities—neither vertical farms nor capital-intense hydroponics are feasible in the medium-run for developing countries, nor are well-constructed eco-towers or stunning, sprawling, and comprehensive subterranean public transportation systems. On the social horizon of megacity schemes is not an urban utopia but rather the total denuding of the countryside of people, and their ever-more dense enclosure into the favelas, barrios, and shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro, Caracas, Mumbai, Shanghai, Lagos and Dakar. There is no planet of cities on offer. Only a planet of slums.

Max Ajl, The Hypertrophic City vs The Planet of Fields

[visualdatametrics]

Global urbanization is growing at a faster rate than never before. By 2050 23% of the population will live in urban areas with more than 10 million people. A timeline history of mass migration of populations from rural to urban areas from 1960 to 2017. In the timeline, we see estimates from the UN World Urbanization Prospects on the number of people globally who live in urban and rural areas. In 2017, 4.1 billion people were living in urban areas. This video shows the race for urbanization in between countries from 1961-2017. Data is considered for countries from the modern era.

[vagabondedlife]

Megacities - Michael Glawogger