As the population of Spain's rural regions continues to fall, raising fears that smaller towns and villages may eventually vanish, public and private actors are experimenting with ways to reverse the demographic decline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/world/society/spain-rural-regions-revitalize/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #spain #depopulation #tourism #rurallife #cities
“We should invest in small, affordable vehicles.
We will propose to work with industry on a new Small Affordable Cars initiative.
The future of cars - and the cars of the future - must be made in Europe.”
— President von der Leyen will hold tomorrow the third Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry.
The dialogue is a continuation of our commitment to safeguarding the future of a sector that is vital to European prosperity.
@EUCommission
The future of #cars is to NOT be individually owned, and to be a last resort means of transportation.
Reducing drastically the share cars take in our transportation, the space they take when parked in our #cities, the #hospital beds they fill with #roadCasualties, is vital to our #climate, our #wellbeing and our #health.
We should invest in #rail and #bike #infrastructure, and not replace 260 million cars by as many e-cars.
On Saturday, #Trump commented about #Chicago crime & #Illinois Gov. #JBPritzker on his Truth Social site: “Six people were killed, & 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, & JB Pritzker, the weak & pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing CRIME. He is CRAZY!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming! MAGA. President DJT”
#MilitaryState#WhiteSupremacy #law #military#NationalGuard#PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism#TrumpCoup2
#Trump admin ofcls described the #immigration crackdown as part of a larger effort to expand the #federal law enforcement presence in major #Democratic-run #cities….
Unlike the recent federal #takeover of policing in #WashingtonDC, the #Chicago operation is not expected to rely on the #NationalGuard or #military & is focused exclusively on immigration instead of being cast as part of a broad campaign against crime, the ofcls said.
#MilitaryState#WhiteSupremacy #law#PosseComitatusAct #tyranny
As the population concentration in Tokyo is accelerating, the government has begun to take a different approach to help stem depopulation in regional areas and rev up local economies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/japan/post-war-tokyo-overconcentration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #tokyo #population #depopulation #rurallife #cities #decentralization
Crowded cafés in a laneway in Utrecht's car-free CBD. Again showing people don't care about streetfront parking in nice pedestrianised streets.
#urbanism#UrbanPlanning#Utrecht #city #cities #walking #walk #pedestrian
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#Pittsburgh, #Pennsylvania, is replacing over 33,000 high-pressure sodium #streetlights with dimmable, 2700K white LED luminaires, which are "projected to save about $942,000 a year in energy costs while tackling #LightPollution."
Pittsburgh "plans to dim the new lights between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m., which will save energy and money, and, according to the city, cause less harm to migratory birds, urban wildlife and humans."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/pennsylvania-pittsburgh-light-pollution.html