The dates displayed for an article provide information on when various publication milestones were reached at the journal that has published the article activities on preceding journals at which the article was previously under consideration are not shown (for instance submission All content on this site: Copyright © 2025 Elsevier B.V. 13 was the last of 2018’s Salt Lake Twilight Concert Series The last installment boasted a double bill featuring husband-and-wife duo Flora Cash and New York singer-songwriter King Princess and drew a notably younger crowd than previous shows Local DJs underscored the night including DJ Suzy who provided a high-energy soundtrack between bands Local band EIXO opened up the stage for the night’s headliners with a vibrant set The group drew an excitable crowd of their own and got everyone else pumped for the main acts Flora Cash took the stage at sundown and performed a low key set of music defined by acoustic guitar and dreamy electronic soundscapes The husband and wife duo from Stockholm received a warm welcome from the Gallivan Plaza crowd which easily doubled in size after the sun went down The music bled into the transition as DJ Suzy mixed some crowd favorites and prompted singalong after singalong King Princess took the stage to raucous applause and cheering and launched right into a few crowd favorites Mikaela Straus (birth name of King Princess) forged a tangible connection with the crowd from the get go and spent the majority of her set smiling laughing and shooting flirty glances to her fans eliciting shrieks of joy from the folks on the receiving end Energy was high to the very end of the night and sent concert-goers out in high-spirits it was a fitting end to this year’s Twilight Concert Series Donate $10 OR MORE to get a SLUG sticker pack SLUG Mag is one of Utah’s longest-running and most experienced independent magazines SLUG has given a voice to Utah’s community and continues to expand its coverage in both print and digital media This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Sign up here There are plenty of reasons for major cities to go green: to adapt to climate change urban planners are motivated by an additional factor: A pilot scheme to tame traffic and create more green spaces across three neighborhoods has been shown to improve residents' mental health As part of the Superilla (Superblocks) project starting in 2013 quieter streets in the small neighborhoods of Poblenou Horta and Sant Anton that are largely closed to through traffic and where residents can play and socialize A survey of people living in the three repurposed areas found people reported better rest increased socialization and less perceived noise and air pollution They also indicated that the areas are quieter making it easier for them to interact with their neighbors Now, under an ambitious proposal known as Eixos Verds (Green Axis) the local government plans to extend the project across much of the city The goal is to create a network of quieter roads that make it easier and safer to travel on foot or by bike and increase the number of greener public spaces where neighbors can interact with one another The plans tick a number of boxes: By creating cooler green spaces they'll help the city adapt to climate change By slashing traffic exhaust fumes and encouraging active mobility they'll improve air quality and residents' overall health But at the heart of the transformation is also the goal of boosting residents' mental health by cutting noise and air pollution making them feel safer and better able to integrate with their neighbors and lowering feelings of isolation.  A study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health published in Environment International found that the Green Axis project would prevent 14 percent of self-perceived poor mental health and reduce visits to mental health specialists by 13 percent It would also cut antidepressant use by 13 percent and sedative use by 8 percent each year “This study helps illustrate that greening is a relevant strategy to promote health, and in particular mental health, in urban settings,” study co-author Diana Vidal Yáñez, from Barcelona University, commented Those findings add to growing scientific evidence that access to nature helps prevent mental health disorders. Noise pollution from traffic has been linked to stress while bad air quality has been linked to mental health impacts such as dementia and strokes Research from the Netherlands has found that increased availability of green space within a municipality may contribute to lower levels of antidepressant prescriptions, while a study in China showed access to green or blue space As more cities start to pay attention to the problem the rapid overhaul of Barcelona's streets has been lauded by global city leaders The city's achievements have "defined a global movement that's been implemented around the world," Janette Sadik-Khan, a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, told a meeting of city leaders in Barcelona last month "We can't be content with the streets we were left with decades ago And that's why it's so inspiring to see Barcelona move from temporary materials to permanent construction," she said The city's ambitious plans are not without their challenges The initial Superilla rollout was met with strong local opposition with many worried that the changes would affect businesses and accelerate gentrification They also claimed they weren't properly consulted “It was very controversial,” said Catherine Pérez head of health systems and information at Barcelona’s Public Health Agency residents have since welcomed the drop in traffic noise and pollution and don't want to return to the way things were before “There is less noise; it is more peaceful.” director of urban planning in Barcelona and the architect of the proposals pointed out that approval from residents increased after the city in 2015 refocused the project from tackling climate change to improving people's health “People understood that maybe a change was necessary,” she said adding that the city also started consulting residents With mayoral elections coming up on May 28 candidates are jumping on the new Green Axis plans Getting residents and businesses on board is likely to be key if Mayor Ada Colau who governs as part of a left-wing coalition Her political opponents mostly oppose the plans claiming they’re expensive and damaging to the economy Some want firmer evidence of the health benefits before any more money is spent Others call for better public transport before removing access for cars Critics have also pointed out that housing prices have soared in the Superilla neighborhoods at a time when the city is already dealing with a housing squeeze Residents in other neighborhoods also report that the measures have increased traffic and air pollution near them as cars are forced out of the Superilla areas and into others Belgium first called for a law to tackle drug shortages in May 2023 11 countries signed a paper to Ursula von der Leyen warning the move would downgrade Europe’s health crisis resiliency Mutations in the virus make is more likely to jump species warn the EU’s disease and food agencies NGOs have been briefed that grants will be cut by 50 percent Faced with the masses of information and the acceleration of the cycles of communication and capital how can we outline the movements that give meaning to the most recent decade of the 21st century make us illusorily believe in an eternal present and in an apparent proximity that contains an indestructible distance an exhibition for the Reena Spaulings Fine Art NY/LA gallery the aim is to find traces of the real in the exacerbated display of images The thread running through the works presented is the introduction of punctuations that interrupt narratives associated with imagistic consumption devices This reflection gives us clues about the media structures that define economies of power as is the case of the works 1 Escaping is just engaging in another platform (2019) and 7 Media creates the world it claims to merely show us (2019) by Georgie Nettel or even Donate to the Tate (The Beatles) (2015) by Merlin Carpenter it is important to underline the mechanisms of construction of human memory versus technological devices such as the work Being and/or Time (2013-2016) by Ken Okiishi where the artist presents a digital diary of 24 frames per second all the images having been captured on his iPhone over three years in New York a chronological compilation of relevant world events (between January 2010 and December 2014) together with personal reflections by Bjarne Melgaard Underpinning the reflective frameworks on hyper-information/hyper-communication and their attendant mechanisms of surveillance and power Rialto6 presents the solo exhibition Eixo-Próprio by Pedro Barateiro The artist focuses on the relations of the body of the artist and the viewer as external/internal media in which these can materialise in non-linear narratives where image and word intersect in a poetic and political sense a set of videos conceived without a script and presented at Rialto6 on the days of the exhibition The artist also presents three works: the installation The Astronaut Metaphor (2013) and a sculpture that gives the exhibition its title: Eixo-Próprio (2021) Barateiro explores the absorption and unconscious reproduction of the models that subject us to their visibility «the panoptic eye that sees everything» is laid bare by the artists from their own systemic interior introducing spaces of freedom within digital A Decade that Exploded and Eixo-Próprio are on view at Rialto6, in Lisbon, until July 30. Master in Art and Glass Science (FCTUNL & FBAUL She is a resident artist in the collective Atelier Concorde Collaborates with national and foreign artists Her work has an interdisciplinary character and focuses on themes associated with origin scientific and philosophical constructions of reality Subscribe to the Newsletter (EN Version)! I accept the Privacy Policy Subscribe Umbigo This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.