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Boost your appetite! (lemmy.ca)
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin

Studying appetite, learned about leptin levels.

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The new Cytosolade! Contains your sports requirement of sodium and potassium. (apparently) (lemmy.ca)
 

I can't be the only one who wondered what cytosol tastes like when we read about it in class...

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BC Design Catalogue - Gentle Density (thetyee.ca)
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Stepan the ukraine cat warming his earies (lemmy.ca)
 
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Articles, essays, or studies on the effect of car centric planning and social detachment? (lemmy.ca)
 

Hi everybody.

I'm sorry if my question is really weirdly specific. It's something I've been thinking about for a long time.

You ever see those movies, where people live in this techno-future dystopia, skyscrapers and traffic clogged freeways, car - centric urban planning with no greenery, no trees, think of like Times Square NYC, hyper capitalist neolib dystopia kind of thing.

You see in those movies, the main character (a socially detached loner) depressed, part of the reason is not just a horribly atomized and superficial Society, but the other reason is the wretched urban planning and brutalist architecture.

I think there's been a few articles already on the importance of good architecture for creating a more "communal" mental effect for the people in the town.

I'm wondering if you guys found any articles or essays on the importance of specifically good urban planning (I already read about architecture). Stuff about how car centric urban planning atomizes the individual, ruins the social fabric, ruins the communal mentality, etc.. Sociological stuff.

If you do, please comment. I'd love to read.

Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Ban cars.

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When I lie down for a few minutes (www.instagram.com)
Car-free streets in downtown Montreal took ‘political guts.’ Can Toronto do the same? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

i hope so. i think making pedestrian friendly streets are something we are scared to try because its new, but i dont think its a bad thing.

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What is your ideal urban / village like? (lemmy.ca)
 

I'm in Toronto Canada and it's a very car dependent landscape unfortunately and honestly I'm a little jealous seeing European places and how nice they are with their rich history. Meanwhile here in Ontario we have quadruple-carriageways and stroads lined with strip malls and big-box stores with their expansive parking lots. Unless you're with friends, going outside can be pretty bleak to the eye.

My ideal town would be as such

  1. a car-free and dense downtown area with rowhouses and condo units above cafes and shops

  2. lots of trees and greenery

  3. traditional architectural design

What would you think for yours?