Atlas Urbium
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Atlas Urbium
@atlasurbium.bsky.social
Chronicles of Urban Transformation

Urban transformation stories & data-driven planning insights.

📍 How cities evolve & adapt
🛠️ Research-backed resources
🌆 Sustainable city futures

https://urban.the5guide.com

#UrbanPlanning #Cities
On Tap & Plate: An Intimate Cartography of How Often Urba...

A comparative human-geography essay mapping how frequently residents in six cities—Madrid, Dublin, New York, Liverpool, Aarhus, and Brighton—eat or drink outside the home, and w...

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/on-tap-and-plate
January 12, 2026 at 9:58 AM
A City on Borrowed Ground: The Quiet Decay of New Orleans

When rain falls in New Orleans, it falls gently, as if hesitant to disturb the fragile equilibrium of a city already half submerged in memory.

#UrbanPlanning #NewOrleans

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/a-city-on-borrowed-ground
January 11, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Ecological Democracy and the Big Cities: Imagining an Urban Future

Cities are organisms composed not only of brick, glass, and steel but of ideas, dreams, and democratic desires.

#UrbanPlanning

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/ecological-democracy-big-cities
January 10, 2026 at 9:58 AM
The Big Dig's Hidden Legacy: How Boston Learned to Bury Its Mistakes

In 1991, Boston began the most expensive highway project in American history.

#UrbanPlanning #HighwayRemoval

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/boston-big-dig-legacy
January 9, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Reclaiming the Human in the Smart City: 2025 and Beyond

In every city there is a secret hour, just before dawn, when the lamps flicker—unsure whether to continue shining or surrender to the sun.

#UrbanPlanning

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/smart-cities-of-the-future
January 8, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Harbor Drive Pioneer: How Portland Invented the Art of Highway Removal

Long before other cities discovered highway removal, Portland tore down Harbor Drive to create a waterfront park.

#UrbanPlanning #HighwayRemoval

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/portland-harbor-drive-pioneer
January 7, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Argentina on Two Clocks: Javier Milei's Shock, the Slow G...

Nearly two years into Javier Milei's chainsaw presidency, Argentina lives on two clocks: markets stabilizing at record speed, society bearing deep scars.

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/argentina-two-clocks-milei-shock-narrow-future
January 6, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Keepers of the City: Housing the People Who Keep It Running

Every city runs on quiet skill: the nurse who steadies a night shift, the teacher who holds a classroom together, the bus mechanic who keeps the morning fleet alive.

#UrbanPlanning

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/keepers-of-the-city
January 5, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Stone, Light, and Power: How Europe's Great Cathedrals Organized Cities

Cathedrals weren't monuments but organizing systems: they integrated materials, labor, power, and ritual into the foundational structure of cities.

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/stone-time-cathedrals-urban-algorithms
January 4, 2026 at 9:58 AM
The Twin Unbuild: Healing New Orleans' Highway Wounds

In 1966, bulldozers tore through Tremé's oak-lined streets to build a highway.

#UrbanPlanning #HighwayRemoval

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/twin-unbuild-new-orleans
January 3, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Urban Wounds: When Highways Become Scars

In 1956, New Orleans surrendered its streets to the interstate.

#UrbanPlanning #HighwayRemoval

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/urban-wounds
January 2, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Footsteps over Asphalt: Reimagining Napoli's Traffic for 2030 and 2045

At sunrise in Napoli, the first sound is neither gull nor church bell but the impatient horn of a scooter.

#UrbanPlanning

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/napoli-traffic-footsteps
January 1, 2026 at 9:33 AM
The Tapestry of Czech Towns: History, Identity, and Contemporary Challenges

Each Czech town is a palimpsest, a manuscript of urban history overwritten repeatedly by culture, power, and practicality.

#UrbanPlanning

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/czech-towns-tapestry
December 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
On Tap & Plate: An Intimate Cartography of How Often Urba...

A comparative human-geography essay mapping how frequently residents in six cities—Madrid, Dublin, New York, Liverpool, Aarhus, and Brighton—eat or drink outside the home, and w...

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/on-tap-and-plate
December 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A City on Borrowed Ground: The Quiet Decay of New Orleans

When rain falls in New Orleans, it falls gently, as if hesitant to disturb the fragile equilibrium of a city already half submerged in memory.

#UrbanPlanning #NewOrleans

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/a-city-on-borrowed-ground
December 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Ecological Democracy and the Big Cities: Imagining an Urban Future

Cities are organisms composed not only of brick, glass, and steel but of ideas, dreams, and democratic desires.

#UrbanPlanning

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/ecological-democracy-big-cities
December 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The Big Dig's Hidden Legacy: How Boston Learned to Bury Its Mistakes

In 1991, Boston began the most expensive highway project in American history.

#UrbanPlanning #HighwayRemoval

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/boston-big-dig-legacy
December 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Harbor Drive Pioneer: How Portland Invented the Art of Highway Removal

Long before other cities discovered highway removal, Portland tore down Harbor Drive to create a waterfront park.

#UrbanPlanning #HighwayRemoval

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/portland-harbor-drive-pioneer
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Argentina on Two Clocks: Javier Milei's Shock, the Slow G...

Nearly two years into Javier Milei's chainsaw presidency, Argentina lives on two clocks: markets stabilizing at record speed, society bearing deep scars.

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/argentina-two-clocks-milei-shock-narrow-future
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Keepers of the City: Housing the People Who Keep It Running

Every city runs on quiet skill: the nurse who steadies a night shift, the teacher who holds a classroom together, the bus mechanic who keeps the morning fleet alive.

#UrbanPlanning

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/keepers-of-the-city
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Stone, Light, and Power: How Europe's Great Cathedrals Organized Cities

Cathedrals weren't monuments but organizing systems: they integrated materials, labor, power, and ritual into the foundational structure of cities.

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/stone-time-cathedrals-urban-algorithms
December 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The Twin Unbuild: Healing New Orleans' Highway Wounds

In 1966, bulldozers tore through Tremé's oak-lined streets to build a highway.

#UrbanPlanning #HighwayRemoval

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/twin-unbuild-new-orleans
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Reclaiming the Human in the Smart City: 2025 and Beyond

In every city there is a secret hour, just before dawn, when the lamps flicker—unsure whether to continue shining or surrender to the sun.

#UrbanPlanning

https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/smart-cities-of-the-future
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🛣️ Urban Wounds: When Highways Become Scars

In 1956, New Orleans surrendered its streets to the interstate.

#UrbanPlanning #HighwayRemoval #NewOrleans

🔗 https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/urban-wounds
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🏙️ Footsteps over Asphalt: Reimagining Napoli's Traffic for 2030 and 2045

At sunrise in Napoli, the first sound is neither gull nor church bell but the impatient horn of a scooter.

#UrbanPlanning

🔗 https://urban.the5guide.com/essays/napoli-traffic-footsteps
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM