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Cities & Health Child-friendly cities. Volume 3, Issue 1-2 of Cities & Health

See also @citiesxhealth.bsky.social's first-ever Special Issue!
'Child-friendly cities'
@stsucl.bsky.social #ChildFriendlyCities

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Children in England ‘face barriers to outdoor play due to poor planning’ ‘Fragmented’ policies leading councils to prioritise approval of housebuilding over parks, study finds

And coverage in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Space for play is being ‘designed-out’ of urban childhoods | UCL IOE - Faculty of Education and Society Children growing up in British cities face barriers to safe, playable spaces as financial constraints, policy misalignment and housing pressures cause planners to prioritise property over parks,

Further coverage here:
www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/...

Designing play into urban environments: strategic-level challenges and best practice in Bradford and Tower Hamlets, UK Children have a fundamental need to play and be physically active for their health and wellbeing. Cities, enacted through both built environment and strategic policies, have the potential to enhanc...

🛝Housing is prioritized over play spaces for children in housing developments, new
@citiesxhealth.bsky.social health study suggests

'More needs to be done to embed play into policy to ensure children have spaces to play and improve their wellbeing'.

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@aliceferguson.bsky.social

Yes. This 🔽

What do you think?

Communities are self-organising increasingly to run their own local services. But why do some so-called ‘DIY urbanism’ projects survive and others fail? New open access publication by Zulfikar D. W. Putra & Mark Tewdwr-Jones now published in Cities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks. Great paper.

3°C of global warming by 2050 could lead to >4 billion deaths.

No one would put their family on an airplane that has a 5% (or 0.005%) chance of crashing.

While most are complacently contributing to the destruction of our global life support system.

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BREAKING 🌍🌡📈
The German Meteorological Society and Physical Society warn today that 3°C of global warming could be reached already by 2050!

Global warming is accelerating - A call for decisive action

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It shows once again that capitalism is an extremely inefficient system characterized by high levels of aggregate production to the point of driving ecological breakdown, even while masses of humanity remain deprived of basic needs.

This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework.

Beyond economies of scale: Learning from construction cost overrun risks and time delays in global energy infrastructure projects Every single energy infrastructure project today was once on paper only, and imagined only as a future project, one that had to be financed, planned f…

Average cost overrun for #nuclear power plant build is a staggering 102.5%
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

Pope Leo condemns climate change critics

Bravo.

As @billmckibben.bsky.social pointed out in his newsletter yesterday, the Catholic Church has tremendous influence and resource & can shape opinion and action.

It might be the best thing Catholicism ever does.

Starmer to protesters: 'Respect grief of British Jews' The prime minister said pro-Palestinian protests planned for the weekend would cause distress.

What about the grief of millions of Palestinians who've had their homes and lives destroyed, their families butchered, their babies burned alive?! The attack yesterday was dreadful. Two innocent people were killed: one was shot dead by police.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK political class ‘poisoned by wealth’, says Zack Polanski as he sets out plan to tax assets of richest 1% – as it happened Polanski earlier called for patriotism debate to go beyond beyond ‘waving flags’

UK political class ‘poisoned by wealth’, says Zack Polanski as he sets out plan to tax assets of richest 1%.
Green party leader says a ‘tiny few have taken our wealth and power’
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Yup, destroy a safe climate and get this ⬇️.

Age of Stupid.

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There is a direct connection between the actual large wave of Jewish refugees who came to Britain in the 1890s, fleeing pogroms and discrimination in Tsarist Russia, and the fact that so few Jewish refugees were admitted in the 1930s.

Britain passed the Aliens Act 1905 to keep most other Jews out.

#Trump #Farage #Putin #ICE #ReformUK

vs

#ECHR #HumanRights

In 2024 alone, banks injected $869 billion into fossil fuel financing.

💚💚 Our DIRTY SCRUBBERS were out cleaning blood, oil, and greenwash from Banks in Eastbourne yesterday 💚💚

The struggle against the climate crisis can feel overwhelming in its vastness and complexity. It’s not just about the burning of fossil fuels. It’s about corporations wanting short term gain and governments that let them prosper.

#XRGlobal Newsletter #98 bit.ly/xrnews98
#ExtinctionRebellion #XR

Slash number of green quangos, Rachel Reeves tells ministers Environmental groups such as Natural England could be targeted by the chancellor’s order to cut regulators holding back growth

'If you look at a body like Natural England it is staffed by environmental purists who don’t necessarily share the govt's growth agenda'

So says new *Environment* Secretary

Instead, we could tax the rich and invest in our green economy, creating prosperity and joy

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Space for play is being ‘designed-out’ of urban childhoods - Bristol Biomedical Research Centre Children growing up in British cities face barriers to safe, playable spaces as financial constraints, policy misalignment and housing pressures cause planners to prioritise property over parks, accor...

🏃 Where can kids play outdoors in the city? 🏙️

🛝 Space for play is being ‘designed-out’ of urban childhoods ⛹️

📢 Read our new research paper!
bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/space-for-pl...

#ChildHealth #PhysicalActivity #OutdoorPlay
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If you live in the UK, please sign, sign, sign!

3. Refusing to introduce Proportional Representation. Under our First Past The Post system, a party with a minority of the vote can achieve a huge majority (as Starmer did with 34%). There is no way Farage could become Prime Minister under a PR system. Only under FPTP.

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Can we continue to travel without harming communities and the planet?

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