🎧 What does a family friendly apartment look like?
Website of expert guest:
https://www.citiesforplay.com/
As our cities grow, there's a push to build up, not out — including in our suburbs. For more families, that means home will be an apartment rather than a house. So how do we make sure higher density living is family-friendly? What does good design look like when you're raising kids on the 20th floor?
We funded feeds while we starved the foundation of a decent life: housing, transit, and social supports.
This essay maps the misallocation—and proposes a rebuild: community land trusts and co‑ops, zoning reform, anchor‑institution procurement, and a dual‑education pipeline for the trades.
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-misallocation-civilization
#HousingAffordability #PublicInfrastructure #CommunityWealth #UrbanPlanning
#AttentionEconomy
#Infrastructure
#SocialInfrastructure
#CommunityLandTrusts
It's #EqualPayDay for 🇺🇸 ♀️ . https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/nx-s1-5758090/equal-pay-day-gender-wage-gap
In 🇨🇦 it's Apr 14: https://equalpaycoalition.org/
The gender pay gap is an intentional form of discrimination against women. It's a sign of the value placed on women’s work & time. GPGs perpetuate gender inequality. GI is the root cause for gender-based violence. Gender inequality & GBV impacts women in work & in #cycling -whether via #UrbanPlanning, #micromobility, #snowclearing or #sports.
🇨🇦 = 28th
🇮🇸 = 1st
🇺🇸 = 37th
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/global-gender-gap-by-country
I'm still baffled by these new roadsigns that have gone up in Newbury. Pass both sides of what? On pedestrianised streets. I think someone ordered the wrong signs.
Gyaros Island of Exile
Museum walkthrough https://benhuser.com/2025/05/25/gyaros-island-of-exile/
#Alumil #Arxellence3 #IdeasCompetitions
#culture #heritage #civilwar #museum #walkthrough #museumwalkthrough #screenplay #photography #script #narrative #YiannisRitsos #Ritsos #TheOtherParthenon #Makronissos #Gyaros #Leros #communicatingvessels #research #archeology #architecture #landscapeplanning #urbanplanning #infrastructure #oilrig #reuse #pier #pedestrianbbridge #tunnel #plasmaboring #monkseal #UNESCO #WWF #MPA
In Loudoun County, Virginia, nearly 200 data centres power huge parts of the internet and AI economy—bringing jobs and billions in revenue.
But residents report constant noise, higher electricity costs, and environmental changes.
It raises a bigger question: how do we balance digital infrastructure growth with quality of life?
#DataCenters #AI #DigitalInfrastructure #Sustainability #EnergyTransition #UrbanPlanning #TechEthics
Common sense approaches to traffic engineering
This is a thoughtful,, and not preachy, article on some things that Santa Monica is doing and not doing to improve safety and convenience.
"Santa Monica...has already identified where our streets are most dangerous. We do not need another study to tell us that. What we need is a practice that turns the evidence our streets are already generating into faster, smarter interventions."
https://santamonicanext.org/2026/03/why-santa-monica-needs-more-agile-streets/
If you drive, walk, or bike around Santa Monica, you’ve seen them: white and yellow plastic bollards—those flexible posts meant to protect bike lanes or tighten corners—lying flat on the ground, mangled by the tires of a passing SUV or a delivery truck. To a frustrated resident, a mangled plastic post looks like a failure
Augustus Brown 🌈
CBC Toronto
pepperberry
Bikeology Guild of Canada
CBC North
Dan Sloane
Gyaros Island of Exile
Xavier Mareca
CBC London
Ben Fulton