Jeremy Poulter

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

What’s happening to big city density in England in five charts - Centre for Cities Apart from London, big cities have barely densified outside their centres over the past decade

I found this interesting, which plays into the debate about where to "find" more housing.

What a pleasure to visit Stockport Plaza to celebrate its 25th year anniversary since it's restoration. Thank you to everyone at the Plaza.

A great evening at the 5Plus fifteenth birthday party at the Royal Exchange

Great evening at 5Plus fifteenth birthday at the Royal Exchange

Photo of Robert Redford resting on a ten-speed bicycle. He's wearing all-white.

Another photo of Robert Redford in all-white resting on a ten-speed bicycle.

Black-and-white action shot of Robert Redford riding a bicycle dressed in all-white. He's standing on the pedals to get up a hill.

Robert Redford in Colorado to train for the ski movie Downhill Racer (1969)

Front cover of Form Follows Fuel, new book.

Spread from Form Follows Fuel

Spread from Form Follows Fuel

First contents page from Form Follows Fuel

@florianurban.bsky.social and I have a new book out shortly, with superb drawings and calculations by John Joseph Burns. Launches in Edinburgh (24 Sept) and Glasgow (25 Sept). Available online in the usual places for £35.99/€39.50/USD39.50.

Think that is Andy Ruffel doing the bunyhop, 1980s BMX legend. share.google/images/Z15FW...

www.autodesk.com/products/dwg... Try this.

Immigration is a beautiful thing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise ❤️

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People walk along a “woonerf” or “living street” lined with trees, plants, lampposts, benches, and two-storey brick buildings in Delft, The Netherlands.

People walk along a “woonerf” or “living street” lined with trees, plants, lampposts, benches, and two-storey brick buildings in Delft, The Netherlands.

People walk along a “woonerf” or “living street” lined with trees, plants, lampposts, benches, and two-storey brick buildings in Delft, The Netherlands.

People walk along a “woonerf” or “living street” lined with trees, plants, lampposts, benches, and two-storey brick buildings in Delft, The Netherlands.

The modular nature of Dutch streets—precast bricks, pavers, and curbs—transforms every infrastructural upgrade into an opportunity for a liveability upgrade. In Delft, scheduled sewage pipe replacement on Eliza Dorus- and Anna Beijer-straten allowed for the creation of woonerven ("living streets").🧵

Lotte Kopecky winning the strade

Sporza: "You're the first one to win the Strade in the Rainbow Jersey, how does that feel?"

Pogi: "I don't know why everyone keeps saying this, because if I remember well Lotte Kopecky won here last year."

That's what we call a worthy worldchampion!!! 🌈🙏

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Plans in for divisive Ryebank Fields development - Place North West Step Places and Southway Housing Group have finally lodged proposals for 120 properties on the 10-acre site in Chorlton more than two-and-a-half-years since being selected as preferred bidders for the...

www.placenorthwest.co.uk/plans-in-for...

We are pleased to be acting as Passivhaus consultants supporting 5 Plus architects on this 120 unit mixed tenure scheme in Chorlton, Manchester. Scheme has just been submitted for planning.

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

person biking in a protected bike lane on a city street. Sometimes the best way to remove barriers is to add some

Barriers.

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Visit to a staged retrofit of an Edwardian terrace. Airtightness and insulation being installed to the cellar ceiling and stairs

Excellent and rail can’t come soon enough, especially for lines like Marple where people paying more than tram equivalent for poorer service and no bus integration.

Please look at extending Bee Network Rail to New Mills Central or Chinley or there’ll be unfair disparity between Buxton and Glossop!

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Thursday night met up with old school friends in Manchester reliving our youth watching @thebooradleys.bsky.social

An evening networking in Stockport. Thanks to Anne Marie of Undrrbanks property and Kelsall Architects

Scott's K6 sketch, never exhibited before, now on show at @soanemuseum.bsky.social

Well done Victoria Derbyshire.!

Daniel Sturrage is a very good pundit. First time I have seen him in this role.

Back to visit clients on a project completed pre covid.

Enjoyed a very informative tour around York Council's mixed tenure Passivhaus housing currently under construction. Great to see good medium density terraces with generous open space and strategies for car club/ sharing reducing parking provision to 0.5 spaces per dwelling. Thankyou to CYC.

Enjoyed a very informative tour around York Council's mixed tenure Passivhaus housing currently under construction. Great to see good medium density terraces with generous open space and strategies for car club/ sharing reducing parking provision to 0.5 spaces per dwelling. Thankyou to CYC.