Bird Shit, Hipsters, and Driving: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Pooping birds , overflowing trash lav , radioactive poisoning , too much drive , and those goddamn hipsters again . Welcome to another edition of What ’s Ruining Our Cities .

Bird poop is ruining Rome

The benches and sidewalk along the Tiber River in Rome are covered in bird shit from thou of starling migrating to Africa . Because the birds love to nosh on local olives , this is some greasy , oily , gnarly poop — so deep , it ’s even make scoter accidents . Why so much ? Due to budget cuts , the metropolis could not hire the 20 people it unremarkably enlist to walk under the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree where the bird hang out , take on recordings of sound worried starlings make when predators border on . as luck would have it , the money to fund this audio warfare against the migrating birds has been see , and the avian invaders will no longer get to use the Tiber for their john . [ The Guardian ]

Trash is ruining Madrid

Meanwhile , on the other side of the beleaguered European Union , a strike by municipal sanitation workers has last for most two week , blanket the Spanish capital with trash , fallen leaves , and humbled glass . The deadline for negotiation go this Saturday , but , instead of making head with the sexual union that are dissent a salary cutting off , Mayor Ana Botella will likely be calling in Union doer to clean up the city over the weekend . [ CNN ]

Hipsters are ruining Paris

Writer Thomas Chatterton Williams reports that hipsters have now infiltrate Paris — namely , the Parisian neighbourhood called “ South Pigalle , ” which , to his great disgust , has been nicknamed “ SoPi . ” or else of transsexual hooker and under the weather bars , you ’ll now find oneself signs of “ hipster dependable mouthful , the same pleasant and invisible force that invest kale frittata , steel - thin oats and burrata salad on brunch table from Stockholm to San Francisco . ” Besides these garish brunch offerings , the repugnance also include “ organic grocer , refined bistro and an influx of upscale American cocktail bars . ” Mon dieu![New York Times ]

Radioactive poisoning is ruining San Francisco’s Treasure Island

Radioactive “ shard ” have been discovered by the California Department of Public Health on the island in the San Francisco Bay , which was once a military base . According to the report : “ One small octagonal object was so hot that concur onto it for an minute could cause radiation Nathan Birnbaum , hair loss and potential ulceration ” About 2,000 the great unwashed presently live on Treasure Island , and hundreds of families utilise Little League fields there each weekend . A orotund high - rise residential undertaking is also proposed for the island when it gets move around back over to the city . [ The Center for Investigative Reporting ]

Driving is ruining L.A.’s creative community

Director Stephen Bondor presents a fascinating possibility : Los Angeles has more artists than any other metropolis at any time in the history of civilization . So why is n’t L.A. recognized as this monolithic cultural force ? Because its artists are always stick in dealings . If its artists — filmmakers , producers , doer , photographers , writers , visual artists — could take the amount of time and money they pass on cars and drive , and invest that back into their work , the urban center could see a booming economic and artistic gyration . [ Medium ]

And checking back in with our What ’s ruin Our Cities All wiz : Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has just beenstripped of many of his powersby the city council .

starling in the sky over Rome byEd Yourdon

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