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  1. RE: scholar.social/@natebowling/11

    '*gentrification* is the process by which a neighborhood experiences an influx of wealthier residents and investment, often bringing higher property values, new businesses, and changes to the built environment. None of those things are inherently bad. The trouble comes with what often follows...Displacement occurs when rising housing costs, taxes, rents, or changing neighborhood conditions make it difficult or impossible for longtime residents to remain in the community they call home'

    #gentrification #disability #builtEnvironment #publicPolicy #livableCities

  2. 'the early PRC’s most prominent buildings, such as the Tiananmen ensemble of the 1959 Great Hall of the People and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution, later supplemented by the 1978 Mao Zedong Memorial Hall, were a Sinofied version of American classicism'

    #china #architecture #design #builtEnvironment

    newleftreview.org/sidecar/post

  3. But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
    Fitful and dark,
    Unseizable in Leith
    And wildered by the Forth…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
    published in The Complete Poems (1978)

    Today, 18 April, is World Heritage Day. Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town & Georgian New Town form one of Scotland’s UNESCO World Heritage sites

    historicenvironment.scot/advic

    #Scottish #Literature #WorldHeritageDay #architecture #builtenvironment #poem #poetry #Edinburgh #MacDiarmid

  4. Very proud to have my research featured in the latest edition of UCL's alumni magazine Portico alongside a stellar group of Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment colleagues including Fiona Zisch, Claire Heaviside and Haim Yacobi

    Read the full piece on how the built environment can support or improve our health and wellbeing:
    magazine.ucl.ac.uk/autumn-2025

    #health #wellbeing  #builtEnvironment #architecture #space #place #disability #neuroarchitecture

  5. London Hydraulic Power Company's Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. The last to close on 30 June 1977 as what little dock machinery remained converted to diesel or electricity.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_H

    #IndustrialArcheology #Heritage #BuiltEnvironment

  6. 🏠 Radon risk changes based on where you live—and how your home is built.

    Canada’s national data shows big differences in exposure.

    Page 16 of the Cross-Canada Radon Survey has the breakdown.

    🔗 buff.ly/2g0YjDe

    #RadonAwareness #PublicHealth #BuiltEnvironment