#Urban Planning

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• 🇺🇸 ‘Baywatch’ to Expand Venice Beach Footprint as Filming Continues — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The producers of “Baywatch” are looking to expand their footprint at Venice Beach as filming continues on the show. The production met Friday with city and county officials at Fox, and came to a conse...

  Related: #Television Production, #Entertainment Industry
• 🇬🇧 Old graves could be reused amid shortage of burial space — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Graves which are more than a century old could be reused in cemeteries across England and Wales under new proposals - but relatives will be able to object and war graves will be protected. 

  Related: #Deathcare
• 🇬🇧 Can culling your garden slow a wildfire? A California city pins its hopes on a contested plan — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Berkeley is adopting the ‘Zone 0’ regulation, which mandates first 5ft around the home in high-risk areas should be clear of combustible material</p><p>Michel Thouati went through the five stages o...

  Related: #Wildfire Prevention
• 🇺🇸 Automating Document Intelligence in Statutory City Planning — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.13245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: UK planning authorities face a legislative conflict between the Planning Act, which mandates public access to application documents, and the Data Prote...

  Related: #Automation
• 🇺🇸 WATCH LIVE: National Capital Planning Commission hearing examines Trump's ballroom plans — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal panel reviewing President Donald Trump's plans to build a ballroom at the White House has set April 2 for a final vote on the project, the chairman said as the agency prepared to give additi...

  Related: #Real Estate, #Government Oversight
• 🇺🇸 'Brady Bunch' house gets historic status in L.A. — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  The Studio City house used for exterior shots of “The Brady Bunch” was designated as a historic-cultural monument Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council

  Related: #Cultural Preservation, #Television History
• 🇺🇸 L.A.’s broken sidewalks hurt people in wheelchairs the most — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  An L.A. Times reader bemoans L.A.'s failures to fix its sidewalks and how that affects his wheelchair-bound wife.

  Related: #Accessibility, #Transportation Infrastructure, #Disability Rights, #City Services
• 🇺🇸 Less pavement and more shade trees would help everyone in L.A. — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  'We must require new buildings to include space for big shade trees planted in the ground for a livable and healthy city,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

  Related: #Environmental Sustainability, #Public Health
• 🇺🇸 Bus-Conditioned Zero-Shot Trajectory Generation via Task Arithmetic — 16/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.13071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobility trajectory data provide essential support for smart city applications. However, such data are often difficult to obtain. Meanwhile, most exi...

  Related: #Smart Cities, #Data Privacy
• 🇺🇸 Adaptive traffic signal control optimization using a novel road partition and multi-channel state representation method — 16/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.12296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study proposes a novel adaptive traffic signal control method leveraging a Deep Q-Network (DQN) and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) to optimi...

  Related: #Machine Learning, #Traffic Management
• 🇺🇸 The Sublime and Subversive Desire Paths of a Snowy New York — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  With the snow sticking around, New Yorkers have had to navigate new, temporary terrain.

  Related: #Environment, #Sociology
• 🇬🇧 London's Albert Bridge closes to traffic as 'precaution' — 10/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Concerns were raised about the 150-year-old crossing following a routine maintenance inspection.

  Related: #Infrastructure, #Public Safety
• 🇺🇸 Urban Spatio-Temporal Foundation Models for Climate-Resilient Housing: Scaling Diffusion Transformers for Disaster Risk Prediction — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.06129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Climate hazards increasingly disrupt urban transportation and emergency-response operations by damaging housing stock, degrading infrastructure, and ...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Climate Change
• 🇺🇸 GATSim: Urban Mobility Simulation with Generative Agents — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2506.23306v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional agent-based urban mobility simulations often rely on rigid rulebased systems that struggle to capture the complexity, adaptability, and...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Technology
• 🇺🇸 San Francisco shows signs of rebound as region hosts Super Bowl — 07/02/2026 [USA]

  After years of headlines about rising crime and an empty downtown that some referred to as a “doom loop”, San Francsico is showing signs of heading in the right direction. NBC News’ Steve Patterson ex...

  Related: #Economic Recovery, #Sports