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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Beside the title, a very interesting conversation about the environmental cost of war and we should be worried about. youtube.com/watch?v=tKtD...

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Why the U.S. Military is 'Earth's Greatest Enemy' (w/ Abby Martin) | The Chris Hedges Report

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Greenland's Fragile Wealth: How a Melting Island Became a Global Obsession Part III open.substack.com/pub/ulgc/p/g...

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Greenland's Fragile Wealth: How a Melting Island Became a Global Obsession Part III

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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 02/04/2026

With the world focused on the acute wartime environmental risks in the Middle East, it's important to remember that these legacies can last decades, as this study from the Solomon Islands demonstrates. www.undp.org/pacific/pres...

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Decaying World War II bombs in Solomon Islands releasing toxic chemicals, new research finds

Coastal communities in Solomon Islands are facing growing health and environmental risks as decaying World War II bombs release toxic chemicals into land and sea, new research has found.

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Greenland’s Fragile Wealth: How a melting Island Became a Global Obsession Part III ulgc.substack.com/p/greenlands...

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Greenland's Fragile Wealth: How a Melting Island Became a Global Obsession Part III

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Raul Jimenez Ortega @rauljimenez.info · 17/10/2025

⏱ But if you don't have time for that, I would appreciate it if you could comment sharing any interesting examples, patterns, or resources you’ve seen that demonstrate how AI fits into development

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Raul Jimenez Ortega @rauljimenez.info · 17/10/2025

🧠 Developers, I need your input! 🙏 😊 We’re exploring ways to enhance the developer experience with ArcGIS. AI-assisted coding is reshaping how we build software, and I’d love to hear how you use it in your everyday work. 👉 Got 2 minutes? You can share your thoughts in our survey: lnkd.in/erxe7twp

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This is why Greenland became so attractive these recent years… “There is still time for the two superpowers to step back from the brink of their latest row over rare earths. These minerals are needed to manufacture most electronics of both the consumer and military sort”

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America and China return to fierce trade conflict

Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh spat

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

“The architects of today can and should acknowledge and embrace the multi-species collaboration inherent in any ecosystem. We should be just as concerned with whooping crane-centered design, wetlands-centered design, atmosphere-centered design, or even hard-drive-centered design...” Liam Young

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Designing Futures

Can storytelling prototype the future? Speculative architect Liam Young examines how imaginative narratives navigate tomorrow's challenges.

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Reuters: As Madrid sweltered at the peak of one of Spain's longest-ever heatwaves, *the temperature in one of its poorest neighborhoods — Puente de Vallecas — measured as much as 8 degrees Celsius higher* than other parts of the city which had more trees”.

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Madrid’s poor neighbourhoods clamour for more trees to cool streets in deadly heatwaves

As temperatures in Spain rise as a result of global warming, trees may play a crucial role.

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

“NEW INV.: The disappearance of Namibia’s grasslands is not a natural occurrence but rather can be traced back to German settler colonial practices following their genocidal campaign against the Nama and Ovaherero peoples in the early 20th century.” @forensicarchi.bsky.social x.com/forensicarch...

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 24/07/2025

China says it has talked with countries downstream about its new dam project in Tibet, a massive undertaking that will affect a key source of water for India and Bangladesh

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China Says It Spoke With Neighbors on Planned Mega-Dam’s Impacts

China said it has talked with countries downstream about its new dam project in Tibet, a massive undertaking that will affect a key source of water for India and Bangladesh.

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation | Berta Flaquer How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? landezine.com/territories-...

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Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation

How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book...

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Check out my new post on where Greenlanders live as #Greenland is getting more and more international attention for its new opportunities including new trade route, route for travel (tourism), untapped mineral resources (including REEs, oil and gas)… open.substack.com/pub/ulgc/p/n...

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Note #5 Greenland: Where People live in Greenland (a map, three charts)

Map of Greenland's towns and three charts plotting its total population count, total population growth projection and its urban population growth projection

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Why not using existing infrastructures rather than clearing a part of Amazon rainforest to build what? a… highway!?!?!?!

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Reuters Graphics @graphics.reuters.com · 28/02/2025

The recent conflict has devastated Gaza’s already fragile waste collection system. With hundreds of thousands of tons of waste piling up in the streets, health and environmental risks are escalating. Explore our latest Reuters Graphics piece 🗑️ #Gaza #ReutersGraphics www.reuters.com/graphics/GAZ...

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Gaza’s garbage crisis

After 15 months of war, Gaza is suffering from a destroyed waste system.

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

La planète Mars hier.

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Forensic Architecture @forensicarchi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

NEW INVESTIGATION: Israeli forces repeatedly attacked Gaza’s main port in the week following 7 Oct 2023. By Jan 2024, after months of continued attacks, all docked vessels had been rendered non-operational, devastating Gaza’s fishing industry and increasing Palestinian dependence on foreign aid.

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Eyal Weizman: “There’s a clause in the genocide convention that is particularly architectural: ‘Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Thursday briefing: The outlandish plan to turn Gaza into a ‘riviera of the Middle East’

In today’s newsletter: Donald Trump’s proposal is an attempt to reshape political reality that has historical precedent, explains architect and researcher Eyal Weizman

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We have a new 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 for you: "Water as a Boundary Actor" by Laura Otto, junior professor at Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg. You can rewatch the talk she introduced it in on our Youtube channel: lnkd.in/epDDpG8c #rcccriticalconcepts #rcc #envhum #water #culture

Water as a boundary actor: Water connects various social worlds, perspectives, and practices. - Laura Otto

To think of water as a boundary actor according to the framework of Susan Leigh Star's and James Griesemer's concept of boundary objects, we can explore how water connects various social worlds, perspectives, and practices. - Laura Otto

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

11 and 13/03/2025 if you’re in Turin, Fragile Cities: Tactics of Care in the New Climatic Regime including Andres Jaque, as inaugural symposium of Invisible Cities Lab.

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"This project of visual representation, through painting, is an invitation to dive into this collective imaginary and rediscover fragments of a shared memory, that of our Haitian culture. It’s an attempt to keep these extraordinary stories alive, –Shneider Léon Hilaire in The Funambulist 57

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"...hospital design has been relegated to the expertise of a handful of specialized firms..., which coincidentally or not, often also have expertise in prisons. The architectural standing of hospitals seemed to change during the pandemic, when the future of the hospital became a popular topic..."

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Treatment - Reinier de Graaf et al. - The Hospital of the Future

Hospitals are among the least appealing projects for an architect, second, perhaps, only to prisons. The brief of a hospital project is long and complex enough to discourage creativity.

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recessed.space @recessedspace.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The Recess 022 A free newsletter for the latest on art & architecture. 🔵 Stefano Boeri chats to the ghost of Ebenezer Howard 🔵 WMF heritage at risk includes Gaza & the moon 🔵 Simeon Barclay’s post-industrial poetry 🔵 Libeskind to work on the Zone of Interest house open.substack.com/pub/recessed...

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ulgcities.bsky.social @ulgcities.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

When you read dam, you know you’ll meet our favorite author and arch/infra-enthusiast Geoff Manaugh 🤗. Damned why is he not yet on Bluesky 😭! #landscapeinfrastructure #landscapeecologies #landscapearchitecture #designpracticesmatter www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...

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When the St. Francis Dam Collapsed

Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its deadly flood.

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Hilbert Vinkenoog (History with) @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I've been fascinated by Greenland's prehistory ever since learning about it in a series of fantastic lectures given by Professor Elizabeth Ashman Rowe during my undergraduate. Upon arrival in the 980s AD, the first Norsemen encountered remains of houses belonging to the Dorset Culture, a people...

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

In seminar teaching yesterday I talked to BA Architecture students about critical reading not only of historical texts, but also what's happening in the world today. I discussed trad architecture, ideas of purity & classicism in politics & used Create Streets, Trump & Humanise as examples. Today:

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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Hydrology Paper of the Day @gvagenas.bsky.social on calculation of macroinvertebrate habitat suitability curves for two North African rivers indicative of differences in climate: in- situ sampling of physical hydrology and biological characterization, and spatial mapping via the River2D model.

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Maher Akraa @maherakraa.com · 15/01/2025

🧵1 A dramatic shift has gripped Syria after the fall of the Assad regime on 8 December, leaving many violent jihadists feeling frustrated and 🔴 unsettled. A fresh report by The Economist (14 January 2025) sheds light on the political, security and religious contradictions shaping this “New Syria.”

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Steven Bernard @sdbernard.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

NEW: Maps showing estimated building damage from LA fires and latest fire perimeters and evacuation areas, huge thanks to Jamon Van Den Hoek and Corey Scher for the data. Read @grimeslikedimes.bsky.social's account www.ft.com/content/9400...

More than 10,000 buildings are likely to have been damaged or destroyed in the LA fires. Maps showing building damage from the Palisades and Eaton fires

Map showing the perimeters of the fires in LA and evacuation orders and warnings currently in place

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Steven Bernard @sdbernard.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

NEW: Animation showing how the LA fires have spread over the past 7 days. Near hurricane-force winds are expected later today which firefighters fear could fan the devastating wildfires. Read @grimeslikedimes.bsky.social and Myles McCormick's report www.ft.com/content/1304... #dataviz

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Architecture from Public to Commons. Edited by Marcelo López-Dinardi. Ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and politics of the commons and practices of commoning beyond the public. Preface Andrés Jaque. Contributions Marina Otero and many others. www.routledge.com/Architecture...

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