PlaceLabs @labs_place
Cross-pollinating perspectives on placemaking, better cities and public spaces. A lab run by practitioners and makers to inspire the futures we want to live in. Joined November 2019-
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🎇 LAUNCHING 🎇 Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods A 9 month peer-to-peer learning journey for people interested in addressing systemic challenges to create neighbourhoods that are life-sustaining. A @CIVIC_SQUARE & Centric Lab collaboration. Enquire: bit.ly/healthP2P
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Is it the world’s most beautiful bike lane? #Amsterdam
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Are you a young aspiring leader in the #infrastructure sector? Join the Mayor’s Young Professionals Panel to help contribute to and shape @MayorofLondon’s work on London’s key infrastructure issues. Click here to apply. Pls RT. london.gov.uk/what-we-do/bus…
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It would be so great if more ppl understood the difference between “with not to” and “led by communities; with support when invited”.
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Ok I might have found my favourite bollard ever!!!
Ok I might have found my favourite bollard ever!!!
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The spatial dynamics of urban inequality urbanformation.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/the… a new piece commissioned by One Earth journal @OneEarth_CP
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To overcome the addiction to cars we first need to cut off the supply of lanes (=quick, cheap, tactical urbanism.) The second step is to start rehabilitating our streets (=longer term.) Rotterdam is starting with the first step:
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A perfect example of wasted space being reactivated into a guerrilla DIY skate park! All ages and skills were out in force today, the former car park alive with activity. (Corner of Lordship Lane & Dulwich Common) 🛹
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Estate agents and bankers say things like, “the high street has been dying a slow death for years” which is a POV from an absentee investor in real estate seeing high street only as a vehicle for rocketing rent/ land value. Needs a reset. google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.c…
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"We focus so much on making sure that new buildings are energy efficient, but if you look forward to 2050, only around 20% of the buildings that will be around in 2050 will be built between now and then. The rest of them? We've already built them, so we need to tackle them now."
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Deadline 31 August! Apply to join the NLA team as Programme Coordinator to work on our major events and collaborative projects, including the London Festival of Architecture, New London Awards and Don't Move, Improve! Awards! Apply here: nla.london/careers/progra… #architecturejobs
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#placemaking is the beating heart of # inclusive #cities. #collaboration #coinvestment #cocreation are the tools we to step & disrupt current urbanization. Watch my #Tedx London #Tedxlondonwomen talk m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZbKII… Let’s start a conversation.
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Never before seen a longlist quite like this in 10 years of architectural journalism! ...SIX AJ 40-under-40 stars plus lots more emerging new talents set to reshape the future of London architecture architectsjournal.co.uk/news/new-names…
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To promote #physical & #mental #wellbeing this month, we’ve challenged 7 teams of JTP walkers & runners to get out locally for daily #exercise & use their cumulative distances to see which team can (virtually) make it from #Edinburgh to #London the quickest. Here's the progress!
Ephemeral edible: gingerbread monolith appears on San Francisco hilltop, then collapses | San Francisco | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2020/d…
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Love this! How eight women in a deprived seaside town changed everything. “If you are interested in something... go at it full speed. Embrace it with both arms.” @OnionCollective @biohmhome @TheDeveloperUK thedeveloper.live/places/places/… #PlaceValue
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The impact of two national #lockdowns, a constantly shifting tier system, increased #homeworking and the growth of online shopping has completely assaulted our already declining #highstreets. So what has 2020 taught us? Read our latest Monologue - bit.ly/2K4MVGN
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