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@Gensler
@UniofNottingham
🚨Personal Announcement🚨
I’m writing a book! 🥳🥳🥳
Many thanks to
@RIBA
publishing for the opportunity to write this book.
It’s a topic that I’ve been thinking (and talking) about for a LONG time.
Healthy Cities, and how we can afford them.
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I remember a senior Architect and Lecturer proposing that cities should be covered in farms.
So I, a precocious 19 year old, asked.
Who exactly would be working on all these farms.
His response?
All of us.
That’s when I knew some people were not serious about solving real
Britain not building anything is a very old problem. See this
@CPSThinkTank
report on Nimbyism from 1990 (two years after Nicholas Ridley invented the word)
We are absolutely hammering this generation. No retail jobs, no university without sky high debt, no freedom of movement and cultural exchange, no time with their friends due to social distancing, no affordable housing and giant recessions. All they can enjoy is Social Media. 🤦🏾♂️
It's bad enough the government spends far less on kids' education depending on where they live.
But to deliberately worsen a child's exams results because their school historically struggles because of that!?...
You're intentionally enforcing inequality!
"Nearly 40% of A-level"
I ask myself this question about being female, being disabled, being a refugee, being gay, being muslim. If the answer is no, I try and do more to support these groups. The point is EMPATHY and responsibility, not blame. We don’t choose who we are but we do choose how we relate.
"One of the criticisms I've faced over the years is that I'm not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong." - Jacinda Ardern
@packyM
You’re right.
That being said, throwing a colleague out like trash without even the slight courtesy speaks volumes and smacks of feeling bad because it didn’t work out.
The board statement didn’t thank Sam, it didn’t suggest it was a difficult decision. Worse, it insinuated
Is the New York High-line the coolest retrofit example?
💰 Generates ~$1B for the city
🌳 Much needed green space
📈 Added 35-50% to existing real estate values
If millennials can permanently defeat NIMBYISM we will unlock a golden age for the UK.
Not just because we’ll have higher growth but because we’ll stop seeing growth as a bad thing and stop seeing stagnation as a good thing.
Corrupt real estate developers are gentrifying neighborhoods and forcing working families out of the homes and apartments, only to replace them with fancy condominiums and hotels that only the very rich can afford.
We need affordable housing for all.
The new Morris EV Van is 😍.
100% electric. 100% British and the chassis is made from recycled carbon fibre from the Black Country. (Woop woop).
Why aren’t we using recycled carbon fibre for buildings? 🤔
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@ZoeRoseBryant
Growing up you think ‘yeah show her!’.
As a professional you think ‘Are you suggesting that whenever we, (a top law firm) have time to call you before we call anyone? If so, please be advised our invoices will reflect this *unique* arrangement.’
Note to self: Amsterdam is loved for many reasons. A big one is it’s town houses. They’re colourful, varied and interesting. Possibly the most curious thing about this image is that it’s not expensive to build. These are terraced houses! This is within reach 😅
#healthycities
@mmegannnolan
For £1m id expect it to save my life, call emergency services, and dissolve into nanobots which are able to stabilise me before they arrive.
Can’t build affordable housing if you oppose building homes in the places people want to live.
This is a very good demonstration of having the comfort of never having to govern, but spout pointless platitudes.
@PhinHarper
I wish, but it wasn’t. It was a proposal for urban farms as a solution to food security.
The ‘all of us’ was referring to us being farmers. Part time. Not as a recreational, community building thing. Although that was highlighted as a second order benefit.
The economics of
Coloured concrete compromise?
Image 1) My very fast. Very rough edit.
Looks much better in my opinion. Would incur a 10-30% uplift on the concrete mix but not the casting. Pittance compared to the 8-10X uplift of burying the line.
If we wanted to be fancy (and cost efficient)
The results were very clear with an unambiguous public preference for the red brick design. The British public overwhelmingly preferred the red brick arch design by 69% to 28%. And there's even better news...
Need a reminder what real city leadership looks like? Paris Mayor
@Anne_Hidalgo
was already championing “the quarter hour city,” where Parisians can get everything they need close by, BEFORE the
#coronavirus
pandemic hit. Watch this via
@ParisEnCommun
@InayaFolarin
Poverty/lack of opportunity and crime go hand in hand. Prosperity and social mobility don’t eradicate crime but the reduce it. They reduce it because once you have an option and something to lose, you think twice.
@frantzfries
100% I think he’s getting in his own way by trying to make it a fantasy play land rather being able to put you ‘in the room’.
Tech works best when it gives you super powers.
I think it would be more successful if Google did it. Assuming they didn’t kill it.
20mph is replacing 30mph all over the UK.
Wales + Scotland likely to along everywhere along with English cities such as Nottingham.
It has many benefits:
💰 Saves Drivers money
💨 Smoother driving reduces air pollution
👧 It’s safer
🌱 Reduces CO2 emissions
#PARKONOMICS
@ACV_Emily
@ac_piper
@Digory29
@tressiemcphd
They’re pushed to extremes of competence to compensate for unfair treatment. Then they recieve unfair treatment because they’re beyond competent.
That’s BS.
@ChrisRG1962
@bbcnickrobinson
@NewStatesman
Casually skated by the government's impact assessments and the fact that they are guaranteed to hit us hard. The left behind, leave areas even worse. Surely there's a duty of care to give this info proper exposure.
🇬🇧 🚀 UK Accelerationists:
Let’s get a rocket launch site built in the UK (Acceleration Island)
1st step? Sign this petition by
@peterrhague
…
We need 10k signatures.
2nd step? Share it far and wide.
LFG retweeting is fine.
@iman_olya
@isnit0
🔥🔥🔥My first article for the
@ArchitectsJrnal
is, unsurprisingly, frustrated. Not just with the status quo around
#retrofirst
+
#heritage
but the complete lack of imagination.
So many companies and people are doing amazing things in the space, we’re running out of excuses. 👇🏾
The best urban green wall I’ve ever seen. It sits so well alongside Victorian Architecture which is a surprise. Can’t ignore the fact that orientation is a massive factor and interestingly the vegetation is also providing shading to the windows *chef’s kiss* 👌🏾👌🏾.
#healthycities
This new Mosque in Dhaka is captivating. It's amazing what's been achieved with a little bit of flourish (pink concrete here), and a novel window program. While not a big structure, it makes a big statement!