I put up a mini-site today at citydensity.com to help you compare the world’s cities. You can see how many people live near a city, or use my favourite metric: "population weighted density" to get an accurate measure of how dense a city is to live in.

1/ 🧵to mark #IWD2024, a short tribute to some female architects of 1960s public housing. First up, Kate Macintosh and the incomparable Dawson's Heights Estate she designed for Southwark Borough Council aged just 28 in 1966.

UK's pre-tax median annual pay in Feb 2024 was £27,972; £23,660 net. Joseph Rowntree Foundation - for minimal standard of living a single person needs £29,500; couple £50,000. Masses condemned to poverty. Who can afford to buy a house, raise family? ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

A lot of discussion around the emergent design code process and whether there will be sufficient evidence to show they are meeting housing targets.

Great to see Chris Boardman CBE discuss active travel as central to a collective vision for new places at today’s @ofp_gov conference in Stoke-on-Trent #placesatpace

Head gardener Daven Hastings created a 500m meadow strip on Millfields park for the #hackneybuzzline. He brought in 68 children from nearby Mandeville School school and Forest Grove school to help create habitat for pollinators so they can say: "Hey, I did that!'" Hackney Council

Only just realising in terms of shading the design is totally flawed. All CGIs show a low sun angle with the side walls supposedly reflecting the sun and protecting the interior. In reality the high midday sun would just turn the middle into a heat trap furnace.

Really? High time Bristol embraced being an actual 21st century city.

There's a chance that the #aurora tonight could be even more active than last night for the UK & mainland Europe. Geomagnetic activity at all three of the UK's monitoring stations are indicating an *extreme* storm (G5). Yesterday was *severe* (G4). [1/4] Read on for more info...

first moved to london just up the road from this a decade ago and it looked almost exactly the same, except it had more scaffolding and slightly less grass. they had the 360 adverts installed day one. what on earth have they been doing all this time lol

Huh that’s weird. Never could have seen this coming.

A 🧵: This is the Mossbourne Riverside Academy primary school in Hackney - it has one of London’s 600+ School Streets and walking & cycling to school is actively promoted by the staff.

In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who voted for Trump and voted for me to understand their actions. I reread the transcripts yesterday and much of it felt like it could have been said today. THREAD

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!! welcome 🥳 bsky.app/download