🧵With targets to build 1.5m new homes createstreets today call for a new approach to planning new town extensions For too long we've defaulted to concreting over the countryside with sprawling housing estates driven by prediction-led transport planning thetimes.co.uk/article/we-mus…

How can we better leverage nature-based solutions to accelerate a carbon neutral future? A new digital dashboard offers access to a research team's efforts to provide data for planners & policymakers championing #ecosystemservices & #greeninfrastructure: bit.ly/congTemkin

Hot take: Every new subdivision should be designed like a small town with minimal car use, have a central meeting house, tavern, coffee shop, grocery store, park, playground and postal kiosk.

Beautiful folded chestnut cladding in this 11-storey timber housing project in Paris, by Kengo Kuma. Built on a tiny 225m2 site too

We need to allow our communities to provide a wider variety of housing types that meet people at different phases of their lives & different price points. Cottage courts are just one way of fitting multiple, smaller homes on one typical suburban single family lot.

You won’t read about it in the news tomorrow but in communities across Massachusetts, residents are organizing and speaking up for zoning changes to collectively move our Commonwealth towards a more stable housing future.

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took leadership. Your city could choose leadership too. Great pic via JB Passieux

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New #OpenAccess article in JPER PlanningJournal led by Malini Roy on how plan quality varies by city, plan type, & scale with a focus on #flood #resilience. We develop a protocol (PQIFR) for evaluating #networks of #plans & apply it to 79 plans from 4 cities doi.org/10.1177/073945…

Mass timber house with a rammed earth facade. By Dechelette Architecture

Crazy that office vacancy rates are so high yet new office designs keep emerging Is no one thinking of adaptive reuse of poor grade offices along with timber vertical extensions?

Some exciting news coming from @PlanningUOM - we have a series of new positions in urban planning and environment. The first one - a Lecturer in Urban Planning is now live - details can be found here 👇 jobs.ac.uk/job/DGS956/lec…

Many congratulations to all those who have passed the Assessment of Professional Competence and are Chartered Members of the RTPI. As recognition we have invited all elected members to a celebratory event in their region or nation. Look out for the invite in your welcome email.

In honor of Finland being named the world's happiest nation for the 7th year in a row, hear from Megan Oliver, AICP, to learn about the impact that city design can have on citizen well-being. bit.ly/3UX8o6x

The coast of New Zealand has very strong winds, so the trees here have learned to grow sideways.

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Whether you're in private, public, or community housing, your landlord is responsible for dealing with pest infestations and keeping the rental in a livable condition. But despite all the laws, some providers still think they can get away with this theguardian.com/australia-news…

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 162 of The Continent. Africa is the fastest urbanising continent: 58% of us will live in cities by 2030. We already have 52 cities with a population of one million or higher – same as Europe, according to the African Development Bank.