Urban things. Design-driven property development at Stadium. Partner at Thursdays Projects (#FirstThursdays etc). LSE Cities programme graduate.
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Lockdown Vignette: Seeing the economy in its component parts medium.com/@garethcpearson/l…
Interesting piece by @SaskiaSassen on how mass privatisation of urban real estate is de-urbanising cities. theguardian.com/cities/2015/…
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Berlins arsenal of radical housing ideas. #capetown has a much worse crisis and our new new plan is just the same old old... citylab.com/equity/2019/02/b…
Museum Night Cape Town happens on 21 Feb. If you can go, please go. It's a wonderful thing. facebook.com/events/72739355…
I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to VR and that kind of thing, but this is a pretty interesting application of augmented reality to build a complex brick wall. lnkd.in/gbApeRV
"... when people have lived for a long time under similar conditions (of climate, soil, danger, necessity, work), then something comes into being as a result, something that 'goes without saying'; a people." - Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
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Yes you just heard @brettherron on @KienoKammies commit first ever affordable housing on old bowling greens in Green Point, which we’ve named the Rasta Dolophini Site - Next to most expensive property in Africa. We are women, we are cleaners and carers, we can RECLAIM the land.
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#Inequality matters - particularly in a #postgrowth world; is #BasicIncome the answer? Our new working paper looks at the options. cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/confr…
'You can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time.' - George Tice quoted in Susan Sontag's 'On Photography'
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One of #UrbanAge's most watched #videos: @SaskiaSassen on how new patterns of land and property ownership are making #cities less #urban.
#UrbanAge10
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A key takeaway from a lecture I attended the other night: We tend to measure success by what one "gets" (earns, receives, accumulates), but we really should be measuring success by what one "gives" (shares, contributes, improves).
42 people hold the same wealth as the poorest 3.7 BILLION! I'd like to speak to the manager. theguardian.com/inequality/2…
"Silent Cyril is either a bank robber‚ an enabler of bank robbers‚ the worst bank manager in the land‚ or a moron." timeslive.co.za/ideas/2017-1…
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I love how @Our_DA can flood @CityofCT with election posters 3 months before an election, but 3 months before the taps run dry (#DayZero) and it's all kumbaya business as usual. 😐
Well done @PatriciaDeLille
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I see the #watercrisis in Cape Town as a collective action problem. A neo-liberal local government is especially ill-equipped to handle such a problem. When they've preached personal responsibility for years it's not easy to then get people to accept collective responsibility – at Cape Town, South Africa
NO NUCLEAR DEAL!!! "How can government talk about improving the quality of life of citizens, when they don’t want to talk to citizens, nor do they want to objectively discuss the risks citizens are expected to take with nuclear?" dailymaverick.co.za/opinioni…
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So we set out to build a #flyingcar. We realised it isn't enough to fly the car, you have to race it. Today @alaudaracing is asking backers to sign up to watch the world's first flying car race in 2018! kck.st/2jPjMPr