Angus Pollard
@Angus_Pollard
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Director | Energy Transition, Sustainable Housing & Community Development | Programme & Portfolio Leadership | PMP
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Joined July 2019
Very cool tool - working on my own GIS skills to one day be able to create this -
@NoContextDutch1 This one: a map with all the buildings in the Netherlands and their ages: https://t.co/8pXEAOBwUy
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“The Netherlands has vacant buildings with enough space to house all 377,000 residents of Utrecht, the country's fourth largest city. The empty space is roughly equivalent to 200k standard new apartments” What’s easier? Building 200,00 new units? Or working on solving vacancy?
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We often hear: build build build! Yes, more supply for housing is a critical piece of the affordability puzzle. Yet, more and more we see that this isn’t simply a supply problem (we didn’t wake up with millions more in demand). It’s a policy issue: https://t.co/4s6lwxTeuk
nltimes.nl
The Netherlands has 17.8 million square meters of vacant buildings with enough space to house all 377,000 residents of Utrecht, the country's fourth largest city. The empty space is roughly equival...
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Amazing to see this in action
The Netherlands will invest €1 billion in cycling infrastructure to connect hundreds of thousands of new homes. This will build bike highways and improve bike-train intermodality, enabling residents to access jobs, healthcare, and school without locking them into car dependency.
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Listen, we cannot just change the dominance of cars on our streets... We are not #Amsterdam, now are we?!!! 'Hold my 🥖 and🍷' — Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of #Paris (a collage of incredible before-after pictures by @EmmanuelSPV and others)
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Here’s something really important for everyone to understand. If we design our cities for cars only, they fail everyone, including drivers. If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers. Spread the word.
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Autumn colors on full display this week as the trees change. From the top of the Euromast in Het Park, Rotterdam 🍁🍂🇳🇱 #Rotterdam #Netherlands
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Every city should be asking this question. I understand the answer might not always be yes, and might be no but still impractical. Nonetheless the question should be explored.
For taxpayers, bike infrastructure is a gift that keeps on giving. An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, maintenance, safety, pollution and healthcare over its lifetime. Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
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When you're in a good city, the neighborhood itself is the amenity.
@GeecheeKid @UrbanCourtyard Exactly. Currently enjoying the clay tennis courts in our courtyard next door to the local pub and restaurant. And then add 100 other amenities onto the neighborhood as I zoom out. Incredible.
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3 months of living in Rotterdam! Amazing urban infrastructure projects you’d miss without a closer look - these horses and I are standing on top of the A16 highway. Utrecht nailing 3rd places and restored towers. 500+ miles down on the bike so far! #rotterdam #netherlands
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A great mixed use amongst the skyscrapers- including city surfing with the Markethall in the background. Markethall is a food market within a residential building, and awesome architecture everywhere you look including Centraal station and the Cube Houses
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I’ve recently moved to Rotterdam to pursue my MSc in Urban Development and Management. An urbanist’s dream city to learn in with so many examples of proper housing and city design. Integrated bike/public transit, walkable necessities, green spaces, and a modern urban core.
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A really great book I’m enjoying on American’s ability, and lack there of, of mobility towards opportunity. Full of hard to hear truths about how we got here as a society in regarding housing and affordability. Tough questions with tough answers, work to be done!
1. I’ve spent the past several years trying to solve a riddle: Why has America ceased to be a land of opportunity for so many of its people? The answer, I’ve come to believe, is that we’re STUCK:
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Fantastic piece on our work here in rural Arizona. If you live in AZ and would like more information, please visit https://t.co/H63xU1Qb42 There is a sign up form and a phone number for this project’s enrollment. There is no cost to program recipients. Please share!
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Great piece out today on the work we are doing here at @sourcewaterco to tackle the water crisis we are facing. The SOURCE hydropanels extract clean drinking water out of the air using nothing but sunlight. Check it out: https://t.co/8x5ELYzLUh
fox10phoenix.com
Arizona, like other parts of the Southwest, is facing water problems, but one Scottsdale-based company is offering a solution, and people around the world are taking notice. FOX 10's Steve Nielsen...
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Fantastic piece highlighting the issues faced on the Navajo Nation throughout the pandemic, and how we were able to help in a practical way with the shielding shelters we completed over the past year
Generations living together is central to how the Navajo have navigated crises for centuries. But the coronavirus has put that in jeopardy, @haileycsadler and Darian Woehr report: https://t.co/ontyUApTZ3
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