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Showing posts with label cities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cities. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Sunday, 29 June 2025
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Friday, 11 December 2020
Thursday, 10 September 2020
Sunday, 27 October 2019
24min @circulareconomy clip - Meet the leaders of three cities who are bringing the circular economy to life
text from youtube "Cities across continents are embracing circular economy principles into their policy development as they work to create thriving, livable and resilient cities fit for the future. We meet three leaders from Milan, São Paulo and London who demonstrate how circular economy principles are being implemented in different contexts and geographies to deliver new systems within their cities. "
Thursday, 29 August 2019
4min 27sec @wef clip - This man is turning #cities into giant sponges to save lives
text from youtube "What if cities learned to absorb rainfall, neutralise floods and turn their streets green in the process? Meet Kongjian Yu, a Chinese architect doing just that.
‘We can make friends with floods,’ he says of his work to limit dangerous water levels in 250 cities across China. ‘Sponge cities allow the natural flow to come back. We use a wetland system, a spongy system to retain the water instead of draining it away.’
As sea levels creep up and extreme rainfall becomes more common around the world, could this be a way to protect our cities?"
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
2min @weatherchannel clip - #Climate change & what some #USA #cities will look like in 2100
found via a digg email
Text from youtube "What some American cities could look like in the year 2100 may surprise you. See the effects of melting glaciers in our latest immersive mixed reality with Meteorologist Jen Carfagno."
Wednesday, 8 August 2018
6min 25sec @TheEconomist clip - #Wooden #skyscrapers could be the future for cities
Text from youtube "
Wooden skyscrapers are an ambitious and innovative solution to the problems posed by urbanisation. Not only are they faster to build, they have smaller carbon footprints than high-rises made of concrete and steel.
By 2050 the world’s population is expected to soar to almost 10 billion people and two-thirds of us will live in cities. Space will be at a premium. High-rise offers a solution.
But concrete and steel – the materials we currently use to build high – have a large carbon footprint. An answer might lie in a natural material we’ve used for millennia.
Throughout history buildings have been made of wood. But it has one major drawback. It acts as kindling. Fire destroyed large swathes of some of the world’s great cities.
But by the early twentieth century, the era of modern steelmaking had arrived. Steel was strong, could be moulded into any shape and used to reinforce concrete.
It allowed architects to build higher than ever before. So why, after more than a century of concrete and steel, are some architects proposing a return to wood? Concrete and steel are costly to produce and heavy to transport.
Wood however can be grown sustainably and it’s lighter than concrete. And crucially, as trees grow, they absorb carbon dioxide from the air, locking it into the timber.
One study showed that using wood to construct a 125-metre skyscraper could reduce a building’s carbon footprint by up to 75%
Regular timber isn’t malleable like steel or concrete, and isn’t strong enough to build high. But engineers have come up with a solution. It’s called cross-laminated timber, or CLT for short. CLT is light and it’s comparable in strength to concrete and steel.
But how does it cope when burnt with a high heat source? London architects Waugh Thistleton are already designing buildings with this new kind of timber. Andrew and his colleagues designed Britain’s first high-rise wooden apartment block and have recently completed the world’s largest timber-based building.
Behind these bricks is a timber core, made from more than 2000 trees, sourced from sustainable forests.
And this London practice is not alone in advocating the use of CLT. Ambitious wooden high-rise buildings are also being constructed in Scandinavia, central Europe and North America. As yet, nobody has used CLT to build beyond 55 metres.
But Michael Ramage’s research centre in Cambridge, working with another London practice, has proposed a concept design of a 300-metre tower, that could be built on top of one of London’s most iconic concrete structures – the Barbican.
Making that jump in height will be a difficult sell. The cost of building wooden skyscrapers is largely unknown, but those costs could be reduced by prefabricating large sections of buildings in factories.
And city-dwellers will need to be persuaded that CLT does not burn like ordinary wood.
As an attractive, natural material, wood is already popular for use in low buildings. If planners approve, it could rise to new heights.
Friday, 13 October 2017
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Monday, 24 October 2016
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Tuesday, 6 September 2016
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Sunday, 19 June 2016
Sunday, 28 June 2015
10 useful links (no. 11) - #tweet, subject, first, mindfulness, cities, uk, data, social media, #policies, train, europe, #facebook, least, video, playdough, #ministry, discipleship, collaboration,
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| this would do as an office |
who tweeted it first - a tool for finding the 1st mention of a phrase on twitter - found via laughing squid
mindfulness resources from @LondonMindful found via @liminalspace
twitter's advanced search - found via buffer
uk cities data tool - found via @CentreforCities
train travel in Europe - how far you can travel from London & other major euro cities in 2 hours and then in 2hr increments up to 22 hours - found at the guardian via hootsuite suggestions tab
social media policies for churches - examples - found via @stevefogg
on facebook find out who you interact with least and make their posts show up less - found via churchmag
twitter video - see below
Okay I need some help with Twitter Video! Is mobile the only way to upload video to the platform? Is there a time/file size limit? Have you seen any results (good/bad) from using Twitter Video?
best playdough receipe
ministry, discipleship and collaboration resources by Rachel Wood’s (Newcastle’s Diocese UK Local Ministry Development Officer) found via Robert Peers via @ling_tim
Previous 10 Useful Links posts
No.'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Thursday, 11 September 2014
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