This Guardian Cities article on beekeepers in Ljubljana, Slovenia is stunning. Text and photos by Luka Dakskobler.
The world’s most bee-friendly capital
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Tram lines now and then
This is public transport cartography based on data taken from Rail Map Online. The maps show ‘now’ and ‘then’ tram line networks in UK and Ireland cities. Read on this in The Guardian: In praise of the tram: Britain’s lost network and the future of transport . The following maps are copies taken from the same article.
Hostile Architecture
Photographs from the Silent Agents series (by Julius-Christian Schreiner) depict repressive uses of design and architecture. The photo above was shot in Innsbruck and shows metal structures that were added to street lamps etc. preventing people to lock their bikes to poles in the city center. More of such fine examples in this Guardian Urban Eye series and in this Die Zeit Artikel.
Mecca: the city that many hajj pilgrims don’t see
Transformation of the holy city as documented by Saudi artist Ahmed Mater.
Demolition of Moscow flats
Following an official decision, some 4000 apartment blocks, the so called Krushchevka flats, will be demolished. Scattered all over the city, the buildings are home to around two million people. The Guardian covers the story in an article and a great photo essay.
A science of queueing
Queueing looked at through truly psychological lenses. The last paragraph of the article includes a sort of garfinkelian breaching experiment with queues:
Social psychologists Stanley Milgram’s “students visited places they expected to find queues […] and systematically cut in between the third and fourth person, saying: “Excuse me, I’d like to get in here.” If someone protested, they would leave; if not, they would leave after one minute. His students reported finding it extremely stressful, yet only about 10% of the time were they ejected from the line.”
Wünsdorf – the Forbidden City
Wünsdorf was the Red Army headquarters in Germany. Once inhabited by 75’000 Soviet soldiers and their families, it was abandoned after 1991. The Guardian has covered the story in an article.
