Meg Swift @_megswift

Inclusive and sustainable urbanism | Urban Designer based in Manchester Manchester Joined June 2020

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Resolve Poverty @resolvepoverty

4 years ago

The cut to #UniversalCredit takes £6 billion of spending power out of local economies and flies in the face of the Government’s mission to unite and level up our country. #KeepTheLifeline

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Tribune @tribunemagazine

5 years ago

This year's Pritzker Prize, the highest award in architecture, went to Lacaton and Vassal: French architects who rejected estate demolition and instead renovated public housing – keeping residents in place, writes @OwenHatherley. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/france…

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Meg Swift @_megswift

5 years ago

Petition: Do not restrict our rights to peaceful protest. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/5790…

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Sustrans North @SustransNorth

5 years ago

Government £50 fix your bike vouchers available again fixyourbikevoucherscheme.est.org.uk

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Tribune @tribunemagazine

5 years ago

In 2019, a social housing project in Norwich won the Stirling Prize, the most prestigious award in British architecture. It's a reminder of what public investment in housing can achieve – and why we need more of it. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/social…

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Meg Swift @_megswift

5 years ago

Interesting article from ⁦⁦@RealWorthOrg⁩ on the need to foreground lived experiences and wellbeing metrics in public policy, to facilitate meaningful and positive social impact realworth.org/build-back-hap…

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Meg Swift @_megswift

5 years ago

It’s 2020. You’d really think women would be able to go running without being catcalled #everydaysexism

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Meg Swift @_megswift

5 years ago

‘If we are serious about tackling climate change we must abandon our archaic car-centric approach to urban planning and instead incentivise the use of public transport to drive down traffic in the city centre’ themeteor.org/2020/09/01/doe… via @mcrmeteor

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Meg Swift @_megswift

5 years ago

Pavements should be for people not cars. This could be an important step to creating more inclusive and active streets as well as encouraging sustainable transport methods

Living Streets @livingstreets

5 years ago

Pavements should be for people not cars. This could be an important step to creating more inclusive and active streets as well as encouraging sustainable transport methods

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Meg Swift @_megswift

5 years ago

'In the wake of the pandemic, local authorities are facing even stronger budgetary issues and the worry is that parks will become ever-more commercialised, rendering these landscapes less inclusive or accessible precisely at the time we value them most' theguardian.com/travel/2020/au…

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Will Jennings  @willjennings80

5 years ago

The Planning White Paper has said that some developers could be exempt from having to get listed building consent. So get used to this. From @PlanningShit

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Building Design @BDonline

5 years ago

RIBA president Alan Jones on Jenrick's planning reforms: “The government has missed a huge opportunity to make changes to the planning system for the better and we call for urgent reconsideration. Deregulation is not the way to bring about new homes.” ow.ly/EVH650APZTD

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Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord

5 years ago

Very sad to see The Deaf Institute and Gorilla close today. The 1.57 billion package must support the grass route venues as well as the big household names. For me, these venues are more important and are the bloodline for the music industry. Sadly, if not, there will be more.

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Meg Swift @_megswift

5 years ago

‘City planners and architects can’t take the white, able-bodied cis man as the default subject and imagine everyone else as a variation on the norm. Instead, the margins must become the center’ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Greater Manchester Housing Action @gmhousingaction

5 years ago

Planning shakeup will lead to a decline in standards, a rise in unsuitable and expensive accommodation and will not abate housing crisis. Without public housing, the crisis will continue. All these policies will enable are greater developer profits. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…