🎙️ "Home insulation is a win win win." Carla Denyer speaks to Nish Kumar and Coco Khan for Pod Save the UK about the benefits of mass home insulation for people and planet 👇

UK needs Dragons’ Den approach to investing in net zero, says thinktank theguardian.com/environment/20…

'Everywhere one may hear of ravenous dogs and wolves, and cruel men-eaters, but it is not so easy to find states that are well and wisely governed'. Thomas More, Utopia (1516). Utopian Hours festival for new city making, Turin, 13-15.10 Stratosferica urbanista.org/issues/no-issu…

Great-great-grandmother from Enfield recognised for Second World War code-breaking work enfielddispatch.co.uk/great-great-gr…

Planning has become the darling of the next election - but I've heard no politician fromt he major parties link it to climate change yet - housebuilding means f*** all if your house is under water

CityLab Daily: London's latest protected building is a supermarket trib.al/UJYszus

The world's most enchanting bookstores (thread) 🧵 1. Livraria Lello, Porto 🇵🇹

'I liked the statement Fitzcarraldo gave in the film when asked how he intended to transport a steamship over a steep hill: “Like the cow jumped over the moon”. That’s how I try to think’ – artist Richard Wilson RA. Talk 5.2. Tickets: templebar.london/temple-bar-tal… #richardwilson

Carlos Moreno | IAE-Paris Sorbonne – the creator of the visionary '15 Minute City' concept, hosted by our collaborators The Gilded Acorn bookshop, will be in conversation with Arthur Kay, the urban designer and entrepreneur at Temple Bar London on Tues 3 Sept. Join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-15-minut…

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map.

From London to Wales, Essex to Manchester, Brighton to Birmingham and everywhere in between. Our communities stand together for solidarity and justice. There is no place for hate here.

Drawing: Possible causes of your problems. I've been appalled at the scenes we've witnessed over the last few days. It's utterly unacceptable that people should have to live in fear because of the colour of their skin. [Polite comments only, please.]

At the Liverpool anti-far right counter protest with Polly Smythe, who is live reporting. This is Pat and her comrade who say they've been "fighting Nazis since the 70s" & can't believe we've "got to a point again where racists are notifying people about when they will turn up".

After a week of race riots, there were rumors that the far right were planning to go to Walthamstow tonight. Walthamstow had other ideas. The vast majority of Britain rejects the bile coming from the racists, we will not have our neighbours being terrorized. No Pasaran!

Who's streets? Our Streets! This is Birmingham! Refugees are always welcome here!

Well done #Walthamstow #E17 - hate will always lose! #OneLove ♥️

Just Ed Miliband making Richard Tice look v silly over renewable energy x

An astute placemaking critic indeed 😢

After Grenfell, we need a sea change in the way the country thinks about housing. That’s why GM is following Finland’s lead and becoming the first UK city-region to adopt a Housing First philosophy.👇🏻

New billboard has appeared in Dundee. Anybody ken the story behind it?