"If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places." Fred Kent When allocating budget and space, Utrecht consistently chooses the latter. The result: healthy people, less traffic and beautiful living.

MINI LECTURE: Urban structure and mobility behavior [1/12] For all those we have heard people say: ‘cycling cannot work here! Our city is much bigger than Amsterdam!!1!’ You need to understand Dutch magic: 🧵📷👇

If Keir Starmer reversed Brexit, which of the Brexit benefits would you miss the most?

How one school made a street safer for kids. Not a full-on "School Street," where all cars are banned, but a big improvement for health and safety of children. Before/After.

‘Why isn’t the United Nations united on conflicts of interest?’ - ⁦Stuart Gillespie⁩ #cdoh ⁦go THREADS! -stefan swartling peterson⁩ ⁦May van Schalkwyk⁩ ⁦Dr Mélissa Mialon⁩ ⁦Jamie Uhrig⁩ ⁦Mark Petticrew⁩ ⁦Nason Maani⁩ ⁦Ilona Kickbusch⁩ bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Tell me this isn’t the best “traffic” you’ve ever seen. A school “bike bus” started off each Friday in Barcelona a few years back, and got big from an initial 5 kids. Safety in numbers — do you think you could do this in YOUR city? #BikeBus Via Lluís Juncà

Fully agree with ⁦Marion Nestle⁩ that once again Mexico takes the lead on food policy and other countries need to do the same - comprehensive guiding policy in law for food as a human right and the need for it to be environmentally sustainable foodpolitics.com/2024/08/what-i…

Fascinating data analysis from the Economist looking at 7.5m US car crashes The chart below shows likelihood of you dying in a car crash by weight of your car (grey line) and weight of other car (red line) So it’s in our own self interest to get a heavier car (slight reduction

Really disturbed to see this in Tesco yesterday. These sugary / ultra processed products are not good choices for growing children’s school snacks or lunch boxes. Get with the times please Tesco! Obesity Health Alliance The Food Foundation

New York City has just passed a final rule requiring menu items with >50g of added sugars to display this warning logo. Rule and guidance available here: nyc.gov/assets/doh/dow… Well done nychealthy on continuing to lead in sub-national food policy initiatives 👏

Whenever you cycle in Amsterdam, you are riding on the shoulders of giants… Tens of thousands of citizens who, decades ago, took to the streets to fight back against the rampant rise of the car in their community. Without this defiant act, their city would look like any other.

Associated with these reviews - they underpin the draft guidelines - World Health Organization (WHO) is holding a public consultation on nutrition labelling policies. There is a launch webinar on 9th September: who.zoom.us/webinar/regist… + more information here: who.int/news-room/arti…

Athens is one of the world's best references for great city building, but not for the reasons you might think. While it's home to some of the most important works of Classical Architecture, the city's average blocks are more easily emulated, and just as worthy.

Ignore the alarming headline - what the article is saying is important. Simply being honest about what is in products is not a big ask. If a product is high in sugar, it should say so, not splash claims about fibre & protein. Business won't do this voluntarily, so regs it is

BBC News - City planning junk food advertising ban bbc.com/news/articles/…

This is so wrong. These platform need better regulatory oversight. We cannot trust them to act in the best interests of the public #RegulateDigitalPlatforms ⁦Melissa Sweet⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-09-1…

Excellent news that this law with a watershed time for TV and online bans for junk foods will be in force from next year. All developed (but not implemented) under a Tory government. Important exemplar on prioritising children's rights and health. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

A sneak peek of how Oxford Street could look ⬇️

READ: Barcelona has a plan to create a city-wide network of quieter streets that are easier and safer to travel on foot or by bike. Instead of bumper-to-bumper cars, streets will be lined with trees, play parks, bike-lanes, benches and green people places. politico.eu/article/barcel…

Decision-making by referendum should be discouraged, but it can quantify how planning is often dictated by an intensive minority. When Budapest put banning private cars on the Széchenyi Chain Bridge to a vote in 2023, 79% were in favor of reserving it for bikes, buses and taxis.