🌏 One planet. Adaptive reuse. Sufficiency & enrgy efficiency. Community, consume less, share economy. Low-tech solutions. Qual Architect, Researcher, Teacher.
Melbourne via UK
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- Learnt so much from being a co-editor on this book.
- Bk is part of Prof. Sarah Sayce’s huge legacy.
- I contribute a chapter about vacancy data, often used to inform reactive urban policy
- My fave is chapter 5 - on regulation & policy development for extg buildings
New E-Book: Resilient Building Retrofits.
Retrofitting commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency - what must be done, how it could be achieved?
Access here ebookcentral.proquest.com/li…
#resilience #climatechange #buildings
Last post, I’m moving my SM posts to my private personal account, and Linkedin where there’s much more transparency on who engages with the content I post.
Happy to connect via insta (same handle as X) and on Linkedin. X was good fun but it had its day a while ago
Excellent thread explaining global slump in housing affordability. Only developers with invested interests may say ‘its Planning’. Planning isn’t to blame! Monetising housing & poor financial mechanisms makes houses unaffordable & rots the stock faster than any period
Last year I was commissioned by the UK ministry of housing to write a report on the demand side-drivers of the housing affordability crisis.
After some election-related delays, here it is. (1/13)
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-pu…
Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 retweeted
Name a more iconic Aussie silhouette... we'll wait 🦘💛
📍 Gembrook, Yarra Valley, a one-hour drive from Melbourne on Bunurong country
📸 via IG/melbourneadz
This week I’m touched by many msgs of support to a short eulogy I wrote to honour my Dad. I wish it wasn't the end of your time. As Scott-Holland wrote, ‘Death is nothing at all. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?’
My eulogy to Dad:
linkedin.com/posts/activity-…
Jetlag gift - wide awake & enjoying the silence whilst my lovely fam are sound asleep. Only my bunny interupts, with lettuce crunching & nose nudges when I pause giving her pets. She is extra floofy atm due to changing weather. Fluff in my coffee, but a lovely start to weekend
Sense of self in Collingwood is my favourite adaptive reuse - industrial architecture to beautiful bath house - pools, sauna, steam room. Bliss in the middle of urban inner city, nicely connected by trams to get home, and a few bars along the way :)
Perfect Saturday eve
Sadly, its now at least 4 weeks since my relative started with delirium. Despite advocating for them - suggesting on 19/7, their symptoms might be delirium (past experience of this) the geriatric consultant has confirmed delirium this week - 4 weeks later
Their pattern of abuse is life-long & it is normal for them. Its really not normal though no matter how often repeated
Been using my research skills this week to understand a medical condition called delirium. It’s something I’ve come across before with elderly relatives, and always been surprised by the lack on understanding about this life threatening condition 🧵
-causes permanent damage or death.
Not in the article, but from personal experience of relatives being diagnosed too late:
⁃geriatric consultants in the UK don’t seem up to date/well versed in understanding delirium yet
⁃Best research cluster is in US university hospitals
No longer supporting any of Musk’s platforms. My social media footprint is wider than X. Happy to connect to you on other platforms ❤️
Exactly right Ben...politics of hate. These ppl do not feel any joy. They always say they are defending women but they are violent thugs. Hate & blame is a herpes virus in the uk...you can see it on everyone’s faces & their behaviours. Hateful minds, been normalised for decades
Charities rallying round as domestic violence from these thugs will spike. Violent & tribal agression, normally contained to football cages, spills over once again
"You will regret taking part," says PM Keir Starmer as he describes "far-right thuggery" on UK streets
Follow live bbc.in/3yh2hRM
