Claire Callan
@CitiesClaire
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Interested in human behaviour, and all the places where innovation and cities meet | @LSECities MSc | London 🍩 Coalition | Parkrunner
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Joined March 2021
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407 brilliant runners and walkers out today. 🏃 🏃♂️ 🏃🏻♀️ Congratulation to @beth_potter on securing an Olympic🥉 She is welcome back to mile end any time to further improve her course record! ⏱️
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Not only can @AvantiWestCoast not provide WiFi (didn’t work to or from Birmingham yesterday) they are selling our data! (Good tip to sign up for services including the service name in the name field!) #brokenbritain
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Participants with significant exposure to the dust and air pollution **42x** more likely to have early onset dementia. We really do undervalue clean air… https://t.co/4Pov1qBave
gothamist.com
The study's authors say the full extent of neurodegenerative disease experienced by 9/11 responders remains unknown.
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Dublin City Council creates a dedicated drone unit to accelerate adoption “We believe that this will pave the way for advancements in #urbanairmobility, benefiting both the public and the broader #aviation industry.” 👉 https://t.co/CRGvVithEq
@DubCityCouncil #drones #uam
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We're excited to support @nlalondon’s major new ideas competition, #ReimagineLondon! Seeking ambitious ideas to shape the future of our city, the competition is open to everyone from the built environment to the public. Submit before 17 June! 👇 https://t.co/Xg9C0nDSVM
#NLA
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It sounds like a boring topic, but concrete is one of the most revolutionary inventions in history. For example, concrete now weighs more than everything else humans have ever made combined. So here's the story of how it has changed the world, for better and for worse...
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The UK’s runaway growth. 🧵🪡 1 of 2 Wow this chart from the FT. Look at the UK’s rapid ascent after 2010, how we rise and rise and rise, while the others slip down and down.
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Our Landscape Manager Owen showing us how the Grey to Green scheme has transformed Exchange Place in Sheffield. Grey to Green is a project we’re really proud to have been involved in as it epitomises our primary mission to create green and resilient urban spaces 💚
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With Detroit seeing a population and economic rebound, it's worth exploring what exactly caused the city to fall so hard — because there are REALLY important lessons for a lot of other U.S. cities, some of which are making similar mistakes to Detroit and not realizing it.
This is a big freaking deal! For first time SINCE 1957, Detroit has grown in population!! This makes it the 26th (up from 29th) most populous city on the US now! I don’t think people realize how impossible this seemed literally only 10 years ago.
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This is a big freaking deal! For first time SINCE 1957, Detroit has grown in population!! This makes it the 26th (up from 29th) most populous city on the US now! I don’t think people realize how impossible this seemed literally only 10 years ago.
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I’ve always loved this story of disaster averted, but never knew the student who’s analysis saved so many was a woman! Cheers to Diane Hartley #STEM
Citicorp Center was built in 1977. Located in NY, it was the world's 7th tallest building but had a big structural flaw: a very strong storm wind could knock it over. The expert architects had no idea, until an anonymous Princeton undergrad cold called them. Here’s the story🧵
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Westminster City Council has unveiled draft new rules that would mean developers must explore the option to retrofit existing buildings before demolishing them https://t.co/rWieFwGBc5
architectsjournal.co.uk
Westminster City Council has unveiled new draft proposals that would see it adopt a ‘retrofit first’ approach to redevelopment
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Seems like M&S may yet prevail to demolish this beauty on Oxford street. It would be a shame brings great character to the place #highstreets can’t all be #clonetowns
https://t.co/SiYOdUENeF
bbc.co.uk
M&S successfully appeals a government decision to block the redevelopment of the central London shop.
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What happens when even the #mall anchors don’t believe in the mall anymore? #placemaking #highstreets
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“The upfront cost of £11.8bn to the state of building 90,000 social homes would be repaid within 11 years through savings on public services and extra tax revenue… Meanwhile an overreliance on private development has led to too few homes being built” FT
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Maybe this is how we finally get past Jevons law. Legislate it….
Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs
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The 75MW Poolbeg battery energy storage system (BESS) officially opened a couple of weeks ago. It first appears in SEMO's reports in July of last year: in the chart below we see what looks like testing over the summer followed by on-going operation starting late November. 🔋📈🔍
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Buildings with walls of glass are death traps for birds. But designers know how to stop the crashes. #citylabarchive
bloomberg.com
Glass-encased towers are still death traps for birds. But designers know how to stop the crashes.
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A Vision for Dublin? I'm hosting a public meeting in the Gresham Hotel on Saturday 16th March. RT Appreciated, full details and registration here: https://t.co/lw7pcKYM1X
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