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Monday, December 4, 2023

Urban Data intersection

UDi is a counterpart to UTP.  

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/2023/12/urban-tech-portal.html

The BC part of Canada has so much potential, but there is all sorts of red tape, B$ & various restrictions. These restrictions & limitations haven't been adopted in Alberta, Ontario & Quebec. Thus, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto & Montreal are able to operate on a much larger scale than what is permitted in Vancouver & Victoria or BC in general. 

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Friday, May 13, 2022

Urban Tech Links, etc...

Some UTL posts might occasionally just have a few links that will eventually become part of a more complete post with more data added much later on.

The Vancouver, BC infrastructure is quite lacking when compared to what's allowed in Calgary and Seattle...

https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1525349620120899586/photo/1 Views of downtown Vancouver. https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1523561566817316866/photo/1

https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1525235043869675520/photo/1 , https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1525235043869675520

 https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1525348528070922240/photo/1 The RBC tower that opened in 1973. The building wasn't permitted to have a 40th floor, let alone be a 50 or 60 story office tower. The building only has 39 levels above the ground & the windows only go up to the 36 floor. In contrast, the B of A Tower in Seattle has windows up to the 76th floor. 


https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=building+complex

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=UTL 


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Saturday, June 19, 2021

Cities & Urban Tech Data

Urban Tech Data https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=Urban+Tech+Data ::

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=city 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities#List

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

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/8-cities-rewilding-their-urban-spaces

https://www.weforum.org/our-impact/public-and-private-sectors-chart-a-course-for-cities-to-reach-a-net-zero-carbon-future

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Sunday, May 2, 2021

Urban Tech Intersection

 https://urban-tech-intersection.blogspot.com/

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Friday, August 28, 2020

Urban Tech DL

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Urban+Tech+DL , 
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Thursday, August 13, 2020

Urban Tech DL

 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=urban

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Thursday, February 20, 2020

urban bug tech

https://link.popularmechanics.com/view/5e1b58b695a7a11396540b54bl244.1hly/14c66670
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Friday, September 6, 2019

Urban Tech Data Links

http://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/2010/09/about-UTDL.html
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Monday, June 10, 2019

Urban Tech Info

UTI


https://urbanyvr.com/tag/downtown-vancouver-office-space


https://urbanyvr.com/oxford-properties-announces-major-tenants-of-the-stack-at-1133-melville


https://vancouversun.com/business/commercial-real-estate/loblaws-citymarket-added-to-downtown-vancouver-post-office-redevelopment

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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Some Urban Trains

Fortunately, Toronto & Montreal had enough vision to plan & build 152.45m or 500 foot long subway & metro stations. Even Edmonton & Seattle have much longer underground train stations than the Vancouver-Richmond train or the YVR Canada+Line. The Vancouver C-Line is a fine example of congestive & inept planning and should be studied all around the world as a warning. It could be called the, FINANCIAL DRAINAGE LINE, or the, CATHETER LINE. That's because the ridiculous 50m stations aren't even quite a 3rd of the length of the 152.5m Montreal Metro trains & stations. Thus, it will be difficult to lengthen these very short stations.   

It's one thing if the C+Line was started off with absurdly, short 2.5 car trains, but at least the stations were already built to gradually accomodate 5 car trains, plus still have extra clearance for even 5 more coaches. That would have been a reasonable attempt of planning for future capacity, but that's something BC just isn't that good at. The stations should have been designed to be ultimately accomodate 10 car trains, not some quarter-length joke. 

Eventually, three 20m coaches could be linked together. Then an extra 20m coach at both ends of each 3 car, 60m train. While a five car, 100m train would seem too long for 50m, inadequate BC stations, a walkthrough train makes it a possibility. That and Selective_door_operation makes a 5 car train quite possible. 

It is very sad that the backward BC mentality never properly envisioned a 10 car train to provide a high capacity link between the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal, Bridgeport_station & the YVR-Airport_station, Downtown_Vancouver, Park_Royal_Exchange and the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal. Only a properly functioning metropolitan region can do something like that. The Greater Vancouver Region just isn't at that level yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-train

"The operation of the Central Circle is similar to the S-Train systems in Germany and other countries."




"The line is operated by 33 Siemens ES2G Lastochka trains..."
Russians aren't afraid to use good German technology.
I wish that they would allow some of that German tech in BC but BC still strives to maintain and keep things at a smaller scale. 

The Moscow Circle Line is a much more recent development than the one in London. 

"Since the beginning, platforms have been at least 155 metres (509 ft) long to accommodate eight-car trains. The only exceptions are on the Filyovskaya Line: Vystavochnaya, Mezhdunarodnaya, Studencheskaya, Kutuzovskaya, Fili, Bagrationovskaya, Filyovsky Park and Pionerskaya, which only allows six-car trains..."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro#Rolling_stock 

There is suppose to be secret deeper level subway around Moscow.

Of course when severe flooding occurs, the subways are among the first things to be affected.




How in the hell is the 3rd SkyTrain line constructed to have such small stations, in-spite of increasing future demand? 


No city has spent billions of dollars just to have 2 car trains, except Vancouver & Richmond.

Apparently, the 50 m platforms are only long enough to accommodate 2.5 car trains as capacity demand increases. http://www.railforthevalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Canada-Rail-213-e14082980653651.jpg

Sure, in the early years, Montreal could run a little 3 car train, but their Metro stations were designed to accommodate a 9 car train during the very busy times & 6 car trains for intermediate demand. 

So the BC inept planning process never allowed for a future demand of at least 152.5 m or 500 foot long stations & platforms. Instead, they designed the max potential to be only 50m or 164 feet. That's pathetic & only adds to the deliberate bottleneck planning approach that backwards BC aspires to. 


As long as a line above ground & especially underground, has level sections of 500, 600 or 700 feet, then full length stations can be constructed.
When BC planers only allowed for a 50m or 164 foot level section for each Catheter Line, 




If a system starts out with little trains but has designed the ability to triple or quadruple the length of the station platforms, then its just a matter of building that future extension right from the start or at some point later on. 

Chicago & BART can still run ridiculous 4 car trains but the capacity to run 10 car trains was built in right from the start.

SYDNEY and its metro
Not only does Sydney have much longer trains & platforms, they are double level trains! Its like BC has made sure that it must never match the capacity that NSW & New_England has allowed for.

TOP 10 of the most beautiful trains in Japan

V-BC strives to perpetually be one of the most stunted or underbuilt major cities on the planet. 




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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Urban Tech Data Bits:

https://jf-databits.blogspot.ca/2016/10/urban-tech-db::
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Monday, November 23, 2015

Urban Tech:

http://jfdatalinks.blogspot.ca/search?q=urban+tech:

http://www.streetline.com/blog/5-urban-technology-trends

http://mashable.com/2012/12/26/urban-tech-wish-list/#HtHB1R7ktaqh

http://postscapes.com/journal-of-urban-technology ,
http://www.researchgate.net/journal/1063-0732_Journal_of_Urban_Technology

http://www.urbantech.com

http://jf-databits.blogspot.ca/2015/11/urban-tech.html::

https://www.google.ca/search?q=urban+technology+and+science
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

big-data-urban-life-singapore

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/24/tech/big-data-urban-life-singapore/index.html?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion&iref=obnetwork

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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Urban Tech Links (UTL)

Urban Tech Links is about what makes (or allows) some cities to be BIG or remain small, or somewhere in between. Perhaps almost every city or town will have its peculiarities, myths or urban_legends & even some synchronicity.

UTL ranges from referencing old & new tech involving urban things, statistics & legends & sci-fi stories that are connected to the fusion of buildings, inventions & technology in general. An integral part of this blog network is exploring architecture & symbolism , coincidence  and synchronicity. Some of the coolest sites are, http://ancientx.com , www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens , www.cyberpunkreview.com , www.technovelgy.com , www.world-mysteries.com , www.wired.com , http://io9.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frankenheimer#Film , 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau#Filmography

The Face of Serendipity
"The name stems either from Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), or from Arabic Sarandib, or from Skt. Simhaladvipa which literally translates to "Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity#Etymology,
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=serendipity&searchmode=none

The_Roots & Interpretation_of_Coincidence

The Meaning of Synchronicity
Example:
Larry_Page helped to create a process to link & track each webpage called the PageRank.



This is a basic blog about civilization and urban technology, Etc.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Why is the urban scale of Vancouver, Canada being held back?

There has been a tremendous push to stunt or thwart the scale of Vancouver for generations.
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=921 The Empire Landmark Hotel was the first building in Vancouver to be permitted to reach or exceed 40 floors in 1973. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=111091599&offset=50


While on the surface a no freeway mandate makes sense for not carving up the city, but the mostly narrow bridges don't have proper bus and HOV lanes.


About Urban Tech Links is an exploration into the urban technology environment as well as some rural and mysterious places. 

This is a general URBAN referencing blog that is not intended to be used for spam purposes.

UTL: 
Cities, people & things in general, all become part of a vast database.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics#History_of_statistical_science
Essentially any technology, idea & concept becomes part of the global data-pool.


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Urban Tech Links .:. UTL

UTL - Personal observations of the urban world from a backwards Vancouver and backwater BC perspective. Indeed, it's always amazing to see what so many other cities can do, simply because they don't have anything like a Vancouver, Victoria & BC mentality to hold them back.

The Greater_Tokyo_Area is the most populated urban region on the planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_area#Largest_urban_areas ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area
https://wikimedia.org/Sand_Island_and_Honolulu.jpg Honolulu hasn't permitted any buildings to be as tall as what is in Miami, LA or SF. Indeed, Honolulu, has avoided having a Singapore or especially a HK size skyline. So far, no building has been allowed to be as tall as the Custom_House_Tower in Boston or the Smith_Tower in Seattle. Indeed, no buildings are even allowed to be as tall as the Los_Angeles_City_Hall at 453 feet or 138m.
https://wikimedia.org/Perth_airport.JPG No building in Vancouver is allowed to be as tall as the 2 tallest in Perth & Calgary.
Honolulu and 
Perth, WA are in such nice climate zones. They are a couple of the most isolated major cities on the planet. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu#Transportation , 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth#Transport
In some ways, Australia has been able to surpass Canada, despite it having a smaller land area & less population than Canada. Unlike Montreal & especially Vancouver, Perth & especially Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane, have allowed several taller buildings than what is allowed in Montreal & Vancouver. 
However, Honolulu's_tallest_buildings still haven't been permitted to even be as tall as the 2 tallest in the Giza_pyramid_complex in Cairo, Egypt. 

Urban Tech Links is a basic blog about referencing tall buildings & urban technology in various cities in general. Thus, it's mostly just a list of various urban and tech links. It's also about comparing various cities & infrastructure.
Some cities like to have narrow bridges, short trains & small buildings, like Vancouver, while many others cities reach for the sky. 
There is a point when a lot of major cities start to permit buildings to be taller than the 2 tallest pyramids in Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids 
Paris & London, NYC & Chicago, Tokyo & Seoul...  

www.infrastructurebc.com

The BC part of Canada has tried to keep its infrastructure as small as possible for as long as possible.
It wasn't until the 1970s when strict & stubborn Vancouver started to allow for some buildings to be almost as tall as the 2 tallest Egyptian pyramids. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=105524651&offset=50 

1973 Royal_Centre_(Vancouver) not quite as tall as .:.
1977 Harbour_Centre not counting the flagpole, its still shorter than the original height of the tallest Egyptian pyramid.
2001 One_Wall_Centre, not including its spire, was the first building in Vancouver & BC to be taller than the tallest pyramid in Egypt. 

For most of Vancouver's history, the city refused to permit any building to be taller than the pyramid on top of the 496' Custom_House_Tower in Boston, the 462' Smith_Tower in Seattle, the 453' Los_Angeles_City_Hall. Of course today they are all just like stumps. 481' and 471' are the original heights of the 2 tallest in the Giza_pyramid_complex.
https://wikimedia.org/Pyramids_of_the_Giza_Necropolis.jpg
https://wikimedia.org/Kheops-Pyramid.jpg
"Initially standing at 146.6 metres (481 feet), the Great Pyramid was the world's tallest human-made structure for more than 3,800 years. Over time, most of the smooth white limestone casing was removed, which lowered the pyramid's height to the current 138.5 metres (454.4 ft)" 
HeightOriginal: 146.6 m (481 ft) or 280 cubits
Current: 138.5 m (454 ft)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza 
HeightCurrently: 136.4 metres (448 ft)
Original: 143.5 m (471 ft; 274 cu)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Khafre

"The 1997 study noted that the opportunities for buildings significantly exceeding existing permitted heights were limited. There were a total of five sites where buildings exceeding the 450 foot height limit are possible and two sites in the northwest corner of the Central Business District where heights up to 400 feet (exceeding the 300 foot limit) could be considered." https://council.vancouver.ca/20030515/pe2.htm

Indeed, it's tough to believe that for the longest time, any building in the BC part of Canada had to be considerably shorter than the Washington_Monument in DC or the Philadelphia_City_Hall.

Then Vancouver wouldn't permit any building to be as tall as the Cairo_Tower. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Tower "At 187 m (614 ft), it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998..."
2016 was when a Hotel-Condo was allowed to be slightly taller than the Cairo-Tower. 

The Cairo_Flagpole is the world's tallest flagpole, at 201.952 m (662 ft 7 in) tall. No building in Vancouver is allowed to be as tall.
The Living_Shangri-La tower is close, but not quite.
Of course Vancouver, BC & even Canada can't stop Egypt from building big & tall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_Egypt#Tallest_structures
{The origin of Al-Qahirah is said to come from the appearance of the planet Mars during the foundation of the City of Cairo. The planet Mars, which in Greek was called Ares, was associated with ruin or destruction and was called Al Najm Al Qahir in Arabic. Al Najm Al Qahir is transliterated as "the destroyer star [planet]".} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo#Etymology


https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-cairo-washington-dc Washinton, DC made sure that going into the 20th century, it was going to have mostly low rise buildings like Paris & London or Berlin. However, the Greater Paris Region would eventually allow some tall buildings in certain areas. London even moreso. Yet, Greater London & Metropolitan Paris, certainly have allowed some tall buildings. 

Vancouver has been under a multigenerational set of restrictions as well as a small thinking & planning agenda. Part of this might be attributed to a backwater BC mentality. However, some parts of Greater Vancouver are allowed to build on a grander scale.

Edmonton, Seattle, Portland & eventually Calgary will all have underground train stations longer than what's in Vancouver. Yet, Vancouver could have really benefited from having proper big city long stations. Most of the regions bridges are so narrow that its difficult to have a proper bus lane & HOV lane system. But Vancouver & BC are all about inefficiency. Things might eventually improve if enough people someday start to see the growing gap between what most cities allow vs. stubborn Vancouver.

https://metropolisfilm.fandom.com/wiki/Joh_Frederson

Alphaville is one of the best cautionary stories about the AI run, totalitarian smart-city scenario. 

THX_1138 is the quintessential movie about AI & machines running an underground totalitarian city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138#Plot

Logan's_Run is another interesting totalitarian smart-city movie. 

Blade_Runner is one of the best urban Sci-Fi movies ever made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Plot

Jacque_Fresco is one of many people throughout history with their own perspectives on civilization. https://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html?sh=4107813c607f Some interesting ideas, but perhaps with a utopian angle.


http://www.city-data.com/forum/religion-spirituality/845605-humans-originate-mars.html,
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/esp_marte_14.htm,
http://mars-earth.com/earthpage.htm

http://fusionanomaly.net/orion.html, http://fusionanomaly.net/bladerunner.html,
http://vigilantcitizen.com/hidden-knowledge/connection-between-sirius-and-human-history

More about, UDL: https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=urban

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/9/11/3318910/nasa-scientist-believes-we-could-all-be-in-a-video-game
Civilization_(computer_game)


The Universe seems to be a vast Multi-channel of space & time that originated from a central point of energy. But what or who started this Big_Bang of cosmic information? Its like a cosmic projection program running inside an immense planetarium. The energy of nature or part of a creators plan. Thus either nature or a conscious creator has set up a cosmic matrix of space & time. Humans are just beginning to try to understand how an intelligent force of creation set this all up. Computer models factor into the study of reality & VR helps to illustrate different phases & parts of the universe.
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The Hundredth_monkey_effect isn't supposed to be true, but in backwards Vancouver & backwater BC, it does seem to be happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect#History
Almost everything in Vancouver is like a watered down knockoff. So many people from different backgrounds keep wanting to hold Vancouver back. The NO FUN CITY mentality keeps emerging, but that's just part of the phenomenon.


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