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Urbanist and citizen 🚲🌊 🏳️‍🌈 People and places vs cars and traffic. If we're not allowed to dream, we won't let them sleep. Ciudadanos y espacio público o coches y tráfico.🤷‍♂️ Si no nos dejan soñar, no les dejaremos dormir.
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Since 1950, over eight billion metric tons of plastic have been produced (Geyer et al., 2017).

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Neil Young anuncia un concierto gratuito en Ucrania para seguir “roqueando en el mundo libre”

submitted 31 days ago • 28 comments

Here’s my weekend summary of the news that mattered over the last week, plus our weekly journals of record and week-ahead diary. Especially for paying subscribers to The Kākā. A soliloquy for the week to March 2 thekaka.substack.com/p/a-soliloqu...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

In which the CEO of Engineering NZ calls bullshit on the Government’s claims it is ‘going for growth’ with infrastructure investment. It’s not, and that’s clear in the numbers, with hundreds of engineers now migrating to Australia. thekaka.substack.com/p/the-funds-...

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Check these out — Still probably my favourite bollards/barriers I’ve seen anywhere in the world. They aren’t just cute and fun (and extra seating) — they’re REALLY heavy. Cars should NOT try messing with these sheep! I took this pic while working for Christchurch NZ years ago. #CityOfSmiles

submitted 93 days ago • 27 comments

Let's wait and see how this move plays out for periods of convalescence for people with short-term disabilities. The big fishhook in Govt's small apartments plan newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/12/t...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

The actions of this Govt can seem chaotic at times, but amidst the bumbling blunders is a concerted attack on our strongest protections and advocates for people, nature and knowledge. Essential reading👇 We underestimated the scale of the attack e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... #nzpol

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

It takes a LOT more energy, effort, money and political will to fix the city-building mistakes of the past than it takes to do the right things in the first place, even if they SEEM hard to do at the moment.

submitted 119 days ago • 13 comments

This week, Melissa is speaking at the ‘Repensem Girona’ conference. With the theme ‘Let’s rethink Girona’, it’s the perfect setting to discuss the role of empathy in public space and sustainable mobility, and share global examples of inclusive design. web-girona-cat.translate.goog/repensemgiro...

submitted 136 days ago • 1 comment

We All Make Sacrifices.

submitted 140 days ago • 6 comments

The so-called “stigma” around public transit is mostly/usually a warning light for bad transit service levels. If transit has good service levels (frequency, connectivity, reliability etc) then anyone rides it because it’s a viable choice. If not, it’s ridden mostly by those without other choices.

submitted 136 days ago • 12 comments

Paris continues to lead. Trees to replace parking! www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 137 days ago • 8 comments

One of our neighbours, a pakeha doctor, has a Toi Tu Tiriti sign on the front gate today. Nearby, a Kāinga Ora household is flying a big Tino Rangitiratanga flag. Perhaps David Seymour is uniting the country after all.

submitted 137 days ago • 5 comments

"By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees."

submitted 136 days ago • 14 comments

David Seymour asked a conniving question that didn’t need asking. The answer was loud and clear. Put your racist, divisive Treaty Principles Bill in the bin! #ToitūTeTiriti

submitted 136 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: “Without our bikes, we would not have been able to buy much-needed food and water supplies and then quickly deliver them to cut-off villages within half-an-hour.” Bicycles save lives: How bikes have been critical after Spain's Valencia floods. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/bicycle...

submitted 142 days ago • 2 comments

Shane Jones fast tracking an overseas controlled waste incineration giant for Waimate www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments