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Charlotte Morphet, MRTPI, FRSA, AoU

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Charlotte Morphet, MRTPI, FRSA, AoU @morphetminor.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
UK’s largest local authority declares major incident over bin strike - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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UK’s largest local authority declares major incident over bin strike
Birmingham City Council is concerned about the health risk of 17,000 tonnes of rubbish going uncollected
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Charlotte Morphet, MRTPI, FRSA, AoU @morphetminor.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027
Far-right leader found guilty of embezzlement of European funds and immediately barred from running for office
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Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Tell me car storage is more important than safe and green streets without telling me car storage is more important than safe and green streets!
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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 29/03/2025
Instead of senior care being in an institutionalized, hospital-like setting, what if we created far more walkable and outdoor spaces that were monitored and gave our elders dignity? I don’t believe that seniors should live in a hospital-like setting just because they can’t drive and/or need help.
Het Polder Hofje in the Netherlands
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 29/03/2025
Exploring Planners’ and Developers’ Perspectives on Young Adults’ Attitudes Towards Car Dependency and Emerging Impacts on Housebuilding and Planning Policy pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
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Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The Promise of Planning by Philip Harrison & Alison Todes is one of the latest books in our @rtpiplanners.bsky.social RTPI Library series for Routledge, discussing recent changes to South African planning. As series editor, I’m always open to ideas for new titles www.routledge.com/RTPI-Library...
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 14/03/2025
Our report came out ahead of the Planning and Infrastucture Bill. Some of our recomendations such as strategic planning made it in. However, it remains unclear how public transport is going to be funded even in the new towns where it has been promised. bsky.app/profile/tran...
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 08/02/2025
Rural counties like Wiltshire are also seeing a lot of new homes built. Although sadly often not in patterns that make public transport more viable. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/ec...
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Time for rural areas to have better transport and infrastructure
It leads to a brain drain to the UK’s larger cities that is having a real impact on rural economies, like those in Wiltshire
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
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Julia Thrift @juliathrift.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Health is so holistic: research suggests flossing #teeth 'cuts risk of #stroke by one fifth’. This is huge. Should some of the ££ the #NHS spends on heart disease be transferred to dentistry? If Dept of #Health is serious about #prevention then maybe yes? www.thetimes.com/article/1294...
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Flossing your teeth once a week ‘cuts risk of stroke by one fifth’
Research suggests the dental habit stops the build-up of harmful bacteria and plaque, which are linked to inflammation, blood clots and heart disease
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
You literally cannot grow coffee in most of America
“No one GAF about Columbia. We can grow our own coffee beans. Problem solved”
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Royal Town Planning Institute @rtpiplanners.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
BREAKING NEWS: @victoriartpi.bsky.social is appearing live with Ayesha Hazarika on Weekend Drive Times Radio from 6pm tomorrow (Saturday 25 Jan). Victoria will discuss Keir Starmer's growth push alongside Ellie Chowns Green MP. 🎙️ Listen from 6pm tomorrow www.thetimes.com/radio/schedule
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Schedule | Times Radio | The Times and The Sunday Times
Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Government considering relaxing some of the restrictions on lenders to allow borrowers with small deposits to borrow more www.thetimes.com/article/6a9e...
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Mortgage rules could be eased in quest for growth
Embrace of ‘responsible risk’ would let first-time buyers borrow more
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Mishiikenh Kwe @mishiikenhkwe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I finished a mural last night!
mural of a mishibizhiw under a starry sky surrounded by her babies.another mural, some flowers and a man. another mural, flowers and pictograph style animals, Another mural, flowers, pictograph style animals and a feelings wheel.
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Charlotte Morphet, MRTPI, FRSA, AoU @morphetminor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Do reach out if you want to discuss.
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Royal Town Planning Institute @rtpiplanners.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Join us in-person or online for the Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture on prefigurative planning next month. The annual event is free for members and will run in a hybrid format. Book your place now: www.rtpi.org.uk/events/2025/...
Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture on prefigurative planning.
6 February 2025, 5.30pm-8.30pm
Hybrid/London, free for members
Westminster Business School, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Solar panels are becoming so cheap the Swiss are looking at installing them *between train tracks* !!! www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...
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Charlotte Morphet, MRTPI, FRSA, AoU @morphetminor.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Nice way to end first week back. Will be looking at digital skills. Congrats to Hannah and Meadhbh too. Chuffed to see all female recipients.
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Royal Town Planning Institute @rtpiplanners.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
RTPI Early Career Research Grants are funding three new projects in 2024-25. Congratulations to ⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social ⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire ⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social Read more about the projects here: www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...
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RTPI Early Career Research Grants to fund three new projects
In August 2024, the RTPI issued a call to early career researchers to submit research proposals for an ECR Grant to fund a year-long planning projects
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
One of the most important team-ups badly needed for a better future involves those of us working on better cities, & those of us who understand the science of the #ClimateCrisis. So @katharinehayhoe.com & I teamed up on this special Starter Park! If you havent yet, please share. go.bsky.app/7Wh2uvp
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
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High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts
The route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Population Density Map for Europe.| [Made with Blender and Data from Kontur Population Density for 400m H3 Hexagons 2023] (HT Via Reddit u/importanceNo1464)
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Fragmentation is going to be a big theme of British politics in 2025, I think.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A friendly reminder that if you’re in traffic, you ARE traffic. And mobility is about space. HT @happy_roman for graphic
Photo comparing the space needed for 50 people in cars, a bus or half of a single train car.
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 15/12/2024
Restoration of more pandemic cut services. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How are South East trains affected by the timetable change?
Services on Southeastern, Govia Thameslink Railway and South Western Railway will all have changes.
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 15/12/2024
We should see more lines financed this way (and not just reopenings).
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈
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MichaelLondonSF @michaellondonsf.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Logical conclusion: abolish local government and just have prefects and garrisons. All this mayor stuff is surely about getting chaps who will play the game.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Life imitating art warning about death. And it’s going to get worse every year. Still think #ClimateAction is “too expensive?” #ClimateCrisis
2014 art piece with “politicians discussing global warming” while almost entirely under water, and 2021 similar looking photo of people struggling to stay above water during flooding.
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Charlotte Morphet, MRTPI, FRSA, AoU @morphetminor.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The start of devolution announcements including more planning powers for metro mayor on.ft.com/4iA807d
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District councils face scrapping in major overhaul of English local government
Devolution white paper aims to create larger authorities and more elected mayors
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Paul Smith @pmsmith.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
From the press release about today’s new NPPF: “where plans based on old targets are still in place from July 2026, councils will need to provide for an extra year’s supply of homes in their pipeline – six years instead of five.” www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Planning overhaul to reach 1.5 million new homes
An overhaul of the planning system to accelerate housebuilding and deliver 1.5 million homes over this Parliament.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Think public transit “doesn’t work” in your city or suburb? If that’s true, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion— it’s because of choices made. Land-use, funding, infrastructure & operational decisions. If u do fundamentals like frequency wrong, it fails. Make good choices. (@humantransit.bsky.social)
“Frequency is freedom” quote from @humantransit.bsky.social’s book Human Transit used in public engagement in Burlington, Ontario
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
But I am of course almost definitionally the worst person who could possibly write about this, which is why I'm inflicting it on you people instead
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I think it's because the signifier has sort of become unmoored from the signified. "Middle class white women" now just means "Bad!!" - the actual power dynamics it refers to, and how the person actually using those words relates to them, have kind of been forgotten
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
There's something here about the way "middle class white women, amirite" has become such an all purpose clapback on social media that *even a rich middle class white man accused of sexual misconduct* now thinks it'll work as a defence, I think?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/11/2024
Thousands of people demonstrated in front of the Parliament building in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, for a second day on Friday after the government announced that the country had suspended its bid to join the European Union for four years. nyti.ms/416nABr
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 30/11/2024
Says a lot that about 90% of the traffic I’m seeing on X right now is absolutely convinced the British govt is about to embark on a mass programme of state murder of the elderly and vulnerable. What was until recently the town square of politics has become the preserve of the bad, mad and deranged.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“Critical Mass” is back in Toronto because of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s vindictive and dangerous war on safe bike infrastructure and successful city-building. This was last night. #CriticalMass #Toronto #BikeLanes
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Hallmark Christmas movie where a big city academic goes to a small town and falls in love with the first person who's mildly interested in their research
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I am excited to present my new book, 'The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet', to the PhD students of Sapienza - University of Rome (Uniroma1)/ Sapienza Università di Roma and the 'Genealogy of Urban Design' (GUD) network on 10 December. A pleasure to share 👌
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The NY Times has published a fascinating article "How China become the world's largest car exporter"? The growth curve is impressive. The question of our lifestyles remains at the heart of it What kind of city do we want to live in? Car-centric? Human-centred? 🚘 | 🚴🏼‍♀️🧍🧍🏻‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How China Became the World’s Largest Car Exporter
Tariffs from the United States and other countries are unlikely to stop China’s auto export dominance.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’. Cash from dictatorships, shell companies, companies that never made profit, unincorporated associations with secret funders. Rewards for corruption - govt contracts, lax laws, favours. Must ban all political donations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
15 years of transformations while we exceed the limits of our planetary resources. This is the impact of the Anthropocene. Are we going to continue to sink further and further into the red? (By the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University) www.stockholmresilience.org/research/pla...
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Keir Starmer has promised long-term missions. Can he actually deliver them? @cjayanetti.bsky.social looks at whether the PM has the tools and the focus to achieve his agenda www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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How Can Keir Starmer Achieve His Missions?
Keir Starmer promised to replace short-term, knee-jerk policymaking with long-term strategy. How will he go about achieving this aim? Chaminda Jaya...
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Paris and our massively active mobility 🚴🏼‍♀️🚴🏼🚶🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍♀️ thanks to the pioneering action of the Mayor of Paris @annehidalgo.bsky.social « If you plan a city for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places »- Fred Kent 🙏🏻 🙌
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 23/11/2024
That Cabinet Secretary instruction that cabinet ministers ought not become active participants in this debate has really hit home.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It was a big deal when this KEY MESSAGE appeared in Scientific American. Suggested a tipping point. “We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent: Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment & public safety.” Via @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-n...
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We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent
Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 22/11/2024
Walking and cycling the main way people arrive at the stores. After the cycle lanes were provided total sales went up and individual sales became bigger. Now, why does this sound familiar?
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