@tomgrey
Research Fellow, TrinityHaus Research Center, Trinity College (TU Dublin Architecture & Masters in Sustainable Design, Auckland University) Universal Design, inclusive, healthy & sustainable urbanism & architecture. https://www.tcd.ie/trinityhaus/
Rising energy prices are pushing up inflation, especially in economies dependent on imported fossil fuels.
The durable solution is structural: improve efficiency, accelerate electrification and scale up renewables.
Energy policy is economic policy.
Trump is simply the deviant figurehead of a deeply corrupt country. The enemy is the USA.
Legacy in Matter: Material Traditions in South American Architecture
www.archdaily.com/1038929/lega...
“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social
Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”
Dr. Caro urban bus interchange in Elche / ARN / Arquitectos - https://www.archdaily.com/1039402/dr-caro-urban-bus-interchange-in-elche-arn-arquitectos
Researchers in Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic forests are using cameras on artificial canopy bridges to study how monkeys, sloths and other tree-dwelling mammals move through fragmented forests.
The findings could help design better wildlife crossings to reduce roadkill and habitat isolation.
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In Japan there are 36 words for walking!
Like Japanese cities, the language is highly pedestrian friendly
The insightful @davekeating.substack.com in a text about Ukrainian EU membership.
After 13 years of working for @sngreenways.bsky.social, I'm now working for @streetsalliance.bsky.social! Wait, what? Read more on @theurbanist.org
NEW: Five Oscar-nominated films have storylines dealing with climate change. That's the most ever.
"This is the world we live in. Filmmakers are experiencing climate change in their lives."
Here's the list, and why it's such a big deal: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-ch...
Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.
Worth noting that despite frothing at the mouth of various right-wing media outlets in UK, the decision by Ed Miliband to go ahead with over 8GW of offshore wind in the recent renewables auction now looks a sensible bet
One of few ways UK can reduce economic risk from instability in Middle East
Donald Trump once opposed war and promised to remove America from foreign entanglements.
This is why he broke that promise.
Climate change inaction costs millions of lives each year, report warns...
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Ferries in certain European cities are responsible for more toxic air pollution than all the cars in those cities, a new study warns.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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Kerbside Futures: designing fair, healthy streets
Free #CPD webinar
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Bette A. and Brian Eno Implore Readers to Find Space in Silence via Slow Stories people.com/bette-a-bria...
There's nothing fiscally conservative about sprawl. There's nothing "small government" about the costs of sprawl.
a short history of transportation planning graphic. we have made convenient networks for cars at the expense of walking, biking, and transit
Glad it's finally getting fixed, but Seattle just spent $800 million overhauling the downtown waterfront, and didn't bother to connect the ferry terminal or new waterfront trail with the rest of the downtown bike network 🤯. Can you imagine the car network with a gap like that?
The place to do this now is with smaller buildings. High-rises are more logistically/politically complicated (and their waste handling costs are lower due to economies of scale), but for townhouses, tenements, and other small apartment bldgs, the solution is easy: do what they do in Italy and Spain.
Our report is about NYC, but waste handling and collection is an issue in many places across North America. Toronto has their huge T-shaped loading docks (www.azuremagazine.com/article/park...), Philly has similar issues to NYC, which will become exacerbated as it builds more multifamily housing.
Competition winning design for 60 social housing apartments in Catalonia, Spain.
A timber structure, operable shades and the blurring of interior and exterior spaces with generous balconies.
By Carles Endrich Studio
Unlike many other projects in Spain this *does* have a central corridor…
But… at least it’s been opened up to allow light and air between apartments
It's all about priorities. Save people's lives, or get places faster
The racialisation of the working class has always been core to reactionary politics
E.g. mainstream elites were quick to blame/praise the white WC for both Trump & Brexit despite data providing a different picture
@aaronwinter.bsky.social and I explored it here
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
