These days you’re lucky to even get a sidewalk
this one goes out to the urban planning nerds
Submitted 9 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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FireRetardant@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
All they do is increase taxes though. /s
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 9 months ago
“We would by lying, if we said that we were sorry that you don’t have sidewalks. However, we don’t care about pedestrians, we only care about cars and their vrooms, vrooms.” - Probably some city official.
Beaver@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Gives me grass and trees or give me death
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 months ago
While we’re at it, cover parking lots in solar panels.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
From what I’ve heard (and I DO NOT understand it, at all) this is cost prohibitive and impractical.
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s like a lot of things in life. It depends and it can be complicated.
Upfront costs for infrastructure besides the panels themselves is expensive and in places where electricity is already cheap companies won’t bother.
You also have to conduct tests to ensure that the grid and transformers can handle more power, and if they can’t then you have more infrastructure that needs upgrades.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t do this. We really need to in the long run but it isn’t something we can simply snap our fingers and do instantly.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 months ago
Not sure how this would be the case, would love to see a reference here.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Tell me more about your evil master plan to make the world a better place for everyone
Avg@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Tell it to my neighbors, my tree has slowly become treeless, I planted one in the middle of my front yard so that the house can stay cool in the mornings
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Also for your urban planning nerds, this was posted a few days ago and looks great:
As a young graduate student in the late 1950s, Akira Miyawaki learned about the emergent concept of potential natural vegetation (PNV). This, along with his studies in phytosociology—the way plant species interact with each other—guided his explorations of the vegetation growing throughout his native Japan. Eventually, he began visiting Shinto sites and observing their chinju no mori, or “sacred shrine forests.” Miyawaki determined that these were time capsules, showing how indigenous forest was layered together from four categories of native plantings: main tree species, sub-species, shrubs, and ground-covering herbs.
Using this four-category system, along with his surveys of these sites and his knowledge of PNV and phytosociology, Miyawaki designed his own system for planting forests.
It works like this: the soil of a future forest site is analyzed and then improved, using locally available sustainable amendments—for example, rice husks from a nearby mill. About 50 to 100 local plant species from the above four categories are selected and planted in clumps as seedlings in a mix like you would find growing naturally in the wild. The seedlings are planted very densely—30,000 to 50,000 per hectares as opposed to 1,000 per hectare in commercial forestry. For a period of two to three years, the site is monitored, watered, and weeded, to give the nascent forest every chance to establish itself.
dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 9 months ago
“All according to toshi keikaku”
TL note: toshi keikaku means urban planning
YaxPasaj@lemmy.eco.br 9 months ago
I wasn’t expecting a Death Note reference, thanks for the laughs!
PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We used to have them until several years ago they were deliberately removed. Their roots were destroying the roads and sidewalks, as well as infiltrating the underground infrastructure.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 months ago
Time to put them back properly with new knowledge. :)
infuziSporg@hexbear.net 9 months ago
The orthodox version of the meme literally has a tree as a focal point.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 9 months ago
deightful
Asclepiaz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I love that I was fortunate to get a home in an old urban neighborhood in a city that’s pretty good. The tree coverage in my hood is nuts. I see a few mature black walnuts and a ton of mature pines among all the other smaller trees. I can walk to the grocery store with 80% canopy coverage the entire way.
match@pawb.social 9 months ago
best i can do is Bradford Pear (male)
dditty@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Now we just need to reincorporate female trees in urban areas to reduce the rampant pollen pollution caused by exclusively using male trees
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The cleanup cost from the fruit is what’s prohibitive about that, leaving the fruit isn’t an option since it makes the sidewalks unusable from the mess, it rots and creates mold spores, pests, rodents, etc, they all thrive.
Theres a very good argument to why they shouldn’t introduce females everywhere.
grue@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Also, letting the homeless and working class forage for the fruit would be way too egalitarian and compassionate. Totally unacceptable!
FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 9 months ago
Male trees being coomers
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
What? Trees have genders? I guess I learned something new!
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
News to me too… And I think it might be wrong but I don’t know enough to say with confidence.
how I thought it works is that trees have male and female parts, but a single tree can have both parts. And some trees can self-pollinate.
My uneducated guess is that it depends on the species, some are sexed and some are hermaphrodite. That’s how it goes in the animal kingdom.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 9 months ago
ULPT: You can pretend your allergy is a cold and call in sick
flora_explora@beehaw.org 9 months ago
Well, it’s not that easy. Many plants have both female and male flower parts or flowers. And even if a species has individuals with only one of both sexes, then it might change over the season or over age. So there is really no way around pollen…