[Ráfaga] #2074: trade, slow, military

[Jorge Sanz]

#2074: trade, slow, military

Mon, 29 May 2023 by Raf

* Explore international trade in natural resources, its implications
for sustainability and the new economic and geopolitical
interdependencies emerging between importing and exporting countries
and regions

https://resourcetrade.earth/?year=2020&category=2&units=value&autozoom=1

* An MIT study on the implementation of slow zones in Paris concludes
that reducing car speeds makes streets friendlier, helps activate
street life and encourages human activity cc @NacionRotonda @Neleeta

https://senseable.mit.edu/slow-zones/

* The English OS began around the year 1800 the project, which would
take eight decades to complete, to map the whole country and have a
complete and detailed map spurred by the military threats of a French
invasion

https://www.economist.com/interactive/britain/2023/04/06/how-intrepid-victorian-surveyors-mapped-the-length-and-breadth-of-britain

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