UK’s largest local authority declares major incident over bin strike - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Tell me car storage is more important than safe and green streets without telling me car storage is more important than safe and green streets!

Instead of senior care being in an institutionalized, hospital-like setting, what if we created far more walkable and outdoor spaces that were monitored and gave our elders dignity? I don’t believe that seniors should live in a hospital-like setting just because they can’t drive and/or need help.

Exploring Planners’ and Developers’ Perspectives on Young Adults’ Attitudes Towards Car Dependency and Emerging Impacts on Housebuilding and Planning Policy pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

The Promise of Planning by Philip Harrison & Alison Todes is one of the latest books in our @rtpiplanners.bsky.social RTPI Library series for Routledge, discussing recent changes to South African planning. As series editor, I’m always open to ideas for new titles www.routledge.com/RTPI-Library...

Our report came out ahead of the Planning and Infrastucture Bill. Some of our recomendations such as strategic planning made it in. However, it remains unclear how public transport is going to be funded even in the new towns where it has been promised. bsky.app/profile/tran...

Rural counties like Wiltshire are also seeing a lot of new homes built. Although sadly often not in patterns that make public transport more viable. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/ec...

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

Health is so holistic: research suggests flossing #teeth 'cuts risk of #stroke by one fifth’. This is huge. Should some of the ££ the #NHS spends on heart disease be transferred to dentistry? If Dept of #Health is serious about #prevention then maybe yes? www.thetimes.com/article/1294...

You literally cannot grow coffee in most of America

BREAKING NEWS: @victoriartpi.bsky.social is appearing live with Ayesha Hazarika on Weekend Drive Times Radio from 6pm tomorrow (Saturday 25 Jan). Victoria will discuss Keir Starmer's growth push alongside Ellie Chowns Green MP. 🎙️ Listen from 6pm tomorrow www.thetimes.com/radio/schedule

Government considering relaxing some of the restrictions on lenders to allow borrowers with small deposits to borrow more www.thetimes.com/article/6a9e...

I finished a mural last night!

Do reach out if you want to discuss.

Join us in-person or online for the Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture on prefigurative planning next month. The annual event is free for members and will run in a hybrid format. Book your place now: www.rtpi.org.uk/events/2025/...

Solar panels are becoming so cheap the Swiss are looking at installing them *between train tracks* !!! www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...

Nice way to end first week back. Will be looking at digital skills. Congrats to Hannah and Meadhbh too. Chuffed to see all female recipients.

RTPI Early Career Research Grants are funding three new projects in 2024-25. Congratulations to ⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social ⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire ⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social Read more about the projects here: www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...

One of the most important team-ups badly needed for a better future involves those of us working on better cities, & those of us who understand the science of the #ClimateCrisis. So @katharinehayhoe.com & I teamed up on this special Starter Park! If you havent yet, please share. go.bsky.app/7Wh2uvp

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

Population Density Map for Europe.| [Made with Blender and Data from Kontur Population Density for 400m H3 Hexagons 2023] (HT Via Reddit u/importanceNo1464)

Fragmentation is going to be a big theme of British politics in 2025, I think.

A friendly reminder that if you’re in traffic, you ARE traffic. And mobility is about space. HT @happy_roman for graphic

Restoration of more pandemic cut services. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We should see more lines financed this way (and not just reopenings).

Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈

Logical conclusion: abolish local government and just have prefects and garrisons. All this mayor stuff is surely about getting chaps who will play the game.

Life imitating art warning about death. And it’s going to get worse every year. Still think #ClimateAction is “too expensive?” #ClimateCrisis

The start of devolution announcements including more planning powers for metro mayor on.ft.com/4iA807d

From the press release about today’s new NPPF: “where plans based on old targets are still in place from July 2026, councils will need to provide for an extra year’s supply of homes in their pipeline – six years instead of five.” www.gov.uk/government/n...

Think public transit “doesn’t work” in your city or suburb? If that’s true, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion— it’s because of choices made. Land-use, funding, infrastructure & operational decisions. If u do fundamentals like frequency wrong, it fails. Make good choices. (@humantransit.bsky.social)

But I am of course almost definitionally the worst person who could possibly write about this, which is why I'm inflicting it on you people instead

I think it's because the signifier has sort of become unmoored from the signified. "Middle class white women" now just means "Bad!!" - the actual power dynamics it refers to, and how the person actually using those words relates to them, have kind of been forgotten

There's something here about the way "middle class white women, amirite" has become such an all purpose clapback on social media that *even a rich middle class white man accused of sexual misconduct* now thinks it'll work as a defence, I think?

Thousands of people demonstrated in front of the Parliament building in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, for a second day on Friday after the government announced that the country had suspended its bid to join the European Union for four years. nyti.ms/416nABr

Says a lot that about 90% of the traffic I’m seeing on X right now is absolutely convinced the British govt is about to embark on a mass programme of state murder of the elderly and vulnerable. What was until recently the town square of politics has become the preserve of the bad, mad and deranged.

“Critical Mass” is back in Toronto because of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s vindictive and dangerous war on safe bike infrastructure and successful city-building. This was last night. #CriticalMass #Toronto #BikeLanes

Hallmark Christmas movie where a big city academic goes to a small town and falls in love with the first person who's mildly interested in their research

I am excited to present my new book, 'The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet', to the PhD students of Sapienza - University of Rome (Uniroma1)/ Sapienza Università di Roma and the 'Genealogy of Urban Design' (GUD) network on 10 December. A pleasure to share 👌

The NY Times has published a fascinating article "How China become the world's largest car exporter"? The growth curve is impressive. The question of our lifestyles remains at the heart of it What kind of city do we want to live in? Car-centric? Human-centred? 🚘 | 🚴🏼‍♀️🧍🧍🏻‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’. Cash from dictatorships, shell companies, companies that never made profit, unincorporated associations with secret funders. Rewards for corruption - govt contracts, lax laws, favours. Must ban all political donations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

15 years of transformations while we exceed the limits of our planetary resources. This is the impact of the Anthropocene. Are we going to continue to sink further and further into the red? (By the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University) www.stockholmresilience.org/research/pla...

Keir Starmer has promised long-term missions. Can he actually deliver them? @cjayanetti.bsky.social looks at whether the PM has the tools and the focus to achieve his agenda www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Paris and our massively active mobility 🚴🏼‍♀️🚴🏼🚶🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍♀️ thanks to the pioneering action of the Mayor of Paris @annehidalgo.bsky.social « If you plan a city for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places »- Fred Kent 🙏🏻 🙌

That Cabinet Secretary instruction that cabinet ministers ought not become active participants in this debate has really hit home.

It was a big deal when this KEY MESSAGE appeared in Scientific American. Suggested a tipping point. “We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent: Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment & public safety.” Via @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-n...

Walking and cycling the main way people arrive at the stores. After the cycle lanes were provided total sales went up and individual sales became bigger. Now, why does this sound familiar?