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@Oxymetheus or people just operating out of their front room, even. no good for me here in a flat, but the last two places i lived i could have quite conveniently set up the front door as a kiosk front, and fielded people bringing me stuff to sharpen / rethread / mend without too much trouble. the biggest problem i would have encountered would've been the clauses in my tenancy agreement prohibiting me from running a business from my home - well, after the rather substantial skills issue that makes it a non-starter anyway ;-)

This is what happens when streets are designed for people and pollinators, not cars! During one of London's hottest weeks, feels fitting to share the recent transformation of St John Street, one of its oldest streets. Not long ago this was a sea of tarmac. Now look at it... 🌿 Southbound traffic lane removed, with a traffic filter to reduce through traffic so cleaner air and safer 🌿 Rain gardens (SuDS) with 1,500+ plants, 12 ivy posts, bee posts, sand for solitary bees and wasps, and a pollinator hotel (thanks, Meristem). 🌿 Restaurants spilling out onto the street, and the first evening of open air live music and cocktails planned (thanks CDA) 🌿 Wider pavements for walking and wheeling 🌿 A new cycle lane and plenty of cycle parking 🌿 Thames wall granite, kerbs and paving reused Delivering projects like this isn't easy! Huge credit to a visionary client at Islington Council, together with Central District Alliance Cross River Partnership and the project team: LDA Design public realm lead and planting design NRP (Norman Rourke Pryme) transport, QS and civils. Marlborough Construction Services Limited and Meristem Design (planting). This is such a unique area of London with a fascinating history. Once the principal route into medieval London, where livestock roamed and coaches, inns, alehouses and makers bustled, it was also home to Hicks Hall, London's first Sessions House. Via: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-thompson-51b4748/ia #Urbanism #SolarPunk #Regeneration

@millardjk @QCCEChris @smeg this. I've been beeped many times for cycling in the main lane, by motorists who have two wheels in the bike lane. Like what, I thought we were sharing!

@forteller @locusmap If you save the planned route, you can see both together on the map and compare them. However, the length is not directly displayed, it's in the details of each track. (Start and end point randomly selected. Map data by Locus Map, based on #osm )#locusmap

Clarke & Lake is next. In the direction of travel, the doors open on the right at Clarke & Lake.#Chicago #cta #trains #urbanism #citylife #publictransit #photography #urbanExploration

Worth noting the bankrupt property developers behind the Carlingford buildings, Dyldam, are different to the bankrupt property developers being investigated by ICAC for trying to bribe Parramatta city councillors:https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/@aj/statuses/01KG1M5SJWMNC6190XKZ3AJ8EBThese developers, in turn, are different to Aland, which built the infamous Mascot Towers building in Sydney that was evacuated after cracking: https://www.smh.com.au/property/news/mascot-towers-owners-settle-with-developer-as-founder-buys-20-million-vaucluse-home-20220711-p5b0s6.htmlThey're also different to the developers of the infamous Opal Towers in Olympic Park, which also had cracks. That was done by a firm called ICON: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-04/opal-tower-builder-launches-new-30m-crossclaim/11765280They're also.different to Mehris, a property developer that put up a building in Auburn that the then-Building Commissioner called the worst he'd ever seen, and another in Parramatta that needed rectification: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/developer-forced-to-fix-serious-defects-in-two-parramatta-apartment-towers-20210630-p585km.htmlBut Dyldam is affiliated with another development company called Ellerson, that's responsible for a string of dodgy apartment buildings:"Former Dyldam bosses Fayad Fayad, Remon Fayad, and their father Sam Fayad are behind apartment blocks in Rosebery, Parramatta and Baulkham Hills, all of which have been slapped with sanctions from the NSW Building Commissioner."An ABC investigation has revealed the Fayads' property management company, Ellerson Property, has led the development and sale of dozens of new apartments across Sydney, despite the collapse of their family company Dyldam and looming bankruptcy proceedings."One unit block, The Laneways Rosebery in Sydney's inner south, is facing two rectification orders issued by Building Commissioner David Chandler, detailing serious defects which have prevented unit owners from moving in for more than two years...."Ellerson Property's website promotes Observatory Place in Parramatta as an "elegant 24-storey building" still under construction."Despite developers claiming on social media the building would be finished in early 2022, the units which were being sold off-the-plan are now off the market as the NSW Department of Fair Trading investigates defective building work...."Another development belonging to the family's now-defunct business Dyldam was sanctioned two years ago for posing a "hazard to human to life"."In October 2021, government inspectors found waterproofing issues and an awning at risk of collapsing at Modena, a 15-storey apartment block in Baulkham Hills in north-west Sydney."The Dyldam subsidiary company, Hills Shoppingtown Pty Ltd, that owned the block, was placed into receivership in 2021 along with 22 Dyldam subsidiaries, leaving receivers McGrathNicol to fulfil a government order to fix the building."https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-04/apartments-linked-to-fayad-property-companies-sanctioned/102549750#auspol #nswpol #planning #UrbanPlanning #cities #apartment #apartments #business #property #capitalism #nsw #australia

Open thread: Who here's a published author? If that's you, what's the title of your book, and a brief synopsis. I'm keen to find some interesting new books by folk on the socials. #book #books #writing #literature #auspol #authors #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #cities