Great article on the lack of pickup sports for all ages BY DESIGN. Why the heck do we make everything into formal, gated, restricted, registered, tournament etc. whether for kids or adults? I'd love to be playing pick-up sports myself, and so would my kids, and those are the best memories of my childhood. It's a failure of our local towns to make a healthy community…

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026-1-13-why-do-cities-build-sports-complexes-instead-of-neighborhood-fields

#strongtowns #community #planning #letgrow

Great article on the lack of pickup sports for all ages BY DESIGN. Why the heck do we make everything into formal, gated, restricted, registered, tournament etc. whether for kids or adults? I'd love to be playing pick-up sports myself, and so would my kids, and those are the best memories of my childhood. It's a failure of our local towns to make a healthy community…

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026-1-13-why-do-cities-build-sports-complexes-instead-of-neighborhood-fields

#strongtowns #community #planning #letgrow

The construction of a £1 billion datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, have been put on hold after the government admitted it had made a critical error in granting planning permission.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/datacentre/1bn-datacentre-plans-on-hold-after-government-admits-legal-blunder

#datacenter #datacentre #iver #technews #uk #ukpol #foxglove #planning

The construction of a £1 billion datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, have been put on hold after the government admitted it had made a critical error in granting planning permission.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/datacentre/1bn-datacentre-plans-on-hold-after-government-admits-legal-blunder

#datacenter #datacentre #iver #technews #uk #ukpol #foxglove #planning

Calendar

https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026

#HackerNews #Calendar #2026 #Tech #Innovation #Productivity #Planning

#Cities are cities precisely because—demonstrably—more people want to live in urban environments than those who abhor the idea altogether, for all the advantages that cities have to offer.

Only in America and other places where land and fossil fuels have been historically cheap and abundant, have people developed the idea of #suburbia and glorify and idealize #ruralism supported by private motor vehicles.

#urbanism #architecture #planning #design #housing #policy #economics #politics

Cactoide – Federated RSVP Platform

https://cactoide.org/

#HackerNews #Cactoide #Federated #RSVP #Platform #Decentralized #Tech #Event #Planning

Good news everyone! Daylish is available for beta testing on #TestFlight!

If you’d like to try a new day planner app that helps you effortlessly stay on time, please join the beta test and let me know what you think: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ZXb1Xf5F

Thanks!

#TimeManagement #productivity #planning#AlarmKit

Good news everyone! Daylish is available for beta testing on #TestFlight!

If you’d like to try a new day planner app that helps you effortlessly stay on time, please join the beta test and let me know what you think: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ZXb1Xf5F

Thanks!

#TimeManagement #productivity #planning#AlarmKit

The plan was complete. #grickledoodle #ducks #planning#cartoon#art#drawing#funny

The plan was complete. #grickledoodle #ducks #planning#cartoon#art#drawing#funny

A great example of how people power can overturn bad political decisions.

The Melbourne City Council has abandoned proposed cuts to its cycling budget, following public outcry: https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/2025/07/03/town-hall-abandons-bike-budget-cuts/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon

"In a dramatic change of tune, the City of Melbourne last week abandoned proposals in its draft 2025 budget to cut funding from its bike infrastructure program.

"The council restored much, but not all, of the funding that as recently as last year had been officially earmarked for expanding and upgrading the city's bike lanes over the next four years.

"The 2025 budget and council plan formally adopted by councillors this week folded $6 million back into the program, up to a total of $15 million over the next four years.

"The change of course followed a powerful community outcry over the breach of the council's former commitments on bike infrastructure delivery.

"Almost 1500 people made submissions to the council on the proposed bike underspend, an unprecedented number."

#auspol #vicpol #cycling #infrastructure #planning #Urbanism

A great example of how people power can overturn bad political decisions.

The Melbourne City Council has abandoned proposed cuts to its cycling budget, following public outcry: https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/2025/07/03/town-hall-abandons-bike-budget-cuts/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon

"In a dramatic change of tune, the City of Melbourne last week abandoned proposals in its draft 2025 budget to cut funding from its bike infrastructure program.

"The council restored much, but not all, of the funding that as recently as last year had been officially earmarked for expanding and upgrading the city's bike lanes over the next four years.

"The 2025 budget and council plan formally adopted by councillors this week folded $6 million back into the program, up to a total of $15 million over the next four years.

"The change of course followed a powerful community outcry over the breach of the council's former commitments on bike infrastructure delivery.

"Almost 1500 people made submissions to the council on the proposed bike underspend, an unprecedented number."

#auspol #vicpol #cycling #infrastructure #planning #Urbanism