Arindam Sen
@arindamsen.bsky.social
Architect musician father husband brother son. I think that covers it.
So totally relevant to Aotearoa architecture as well.
Great piece from @chodikoff.bsky.social on the need for an advocacy voice for architects in Canada. 1/https://substack.com/@chodikoff/note/p-173445713?r=jkgft&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Architects need to develop alternative approaches to advocacy
Canada's architects can achieve greater impact when we approach advocacy by organizing issue-based campaigns.
substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
So totally relevant to Aotearoa architecture as well.
I watched this as a 20 something year old in the early nineties. It’s been a touchstone in helping me define and understand my place as a migrant man.
As Stephen Frears’ 1985 dramedy turns 40, a writer discovers a hopeful mirror in the lovers at the centre of the film
The queer optimism of My Beautiful Laundrette
The world is a tangible, malleable thing, and Omar, who an uncle says is “the future”,is an embodiment of all these sensibilities. “I’m not going to be…
lwlies.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I watched this as a 20 something year old in the early nineties. It’s been a touchstone in helping me define and understand my place as a migrant man.
Here is another slightly stale idea from the past.
I think a more radical approach, including giving greater responsibility to AEC professionals, and implementing a more collective liability environment, rather than an adversarial one would have more efficacy.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/30/p...
I think a more radical approach, including giving greater responsibility to AEC professionals, and implementing a more collective liability environment, rather than an adversarial one would have more efficacy.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/30/p...
Private building consent business accredited in first for NZ
Accreditation for NZ's first private consenting outfit comes as the Government progresses a suite of changes for the construction sector.
newsroom.co.nz
May 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Here is another slightly stale idea from the past.
I think a more radical approach, including giving greater responsibility to AEC professionals, and implementing a more collective liability environment, rather than an adversarial one would have more efficacy.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/30/p...
I think a more radical approach, including giving greater responsibility to AEC professionals, and implementing a more collective liability environment, rather than an adversarial one would have more efficacy.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/30/p...
Ok, I accept, that as a diaspora, we cant be homogenous, and fuck being a model migrant bullshit, but I just cant understand how any fellow migrant can be like this.
Honestly, this shit is just tiring, and I am struggling to remain focussed.
Aargh! RANT OVER
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Honestly, this shit is just tiring, and I am struggling to remain focussed.
Aargh! RANT OVER
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May 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Ok, I accept, that as a diaspora, we cant be homogenous, and fuck being a model migrant bullshit, but I just cant understand how any fellow migrant can be like this.
Honestly, this shit is just tiring, and I am struggling to remain focussed.
Aargh! RANT OVER
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Honestly, this shit is just tiring, and I am struggling to remain focussed.
Aargh! RANT OVER
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What makes it worse is that her actions, yup, this is not the first time, are totally unjustifiable and equally dripping in bigotry and bias. And considering I am howling into social media, in my opinion she aint that bright.
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May 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What makes it worse is that her actions, yup, this is not the first time, are totally unjustifiable and equally dripping in bigotry and bias. And considering I am howling into social media, in my opinion she aint that bright.
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If having to deal with institutional racism, that the last couple of days have exemplified, now we have to deal with serial racism due to the actions of a very misguided fellow migrant.
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May 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If having to deal with institutional racism, that the last couple of days have exemplified, now we have to deal with serial racism due to the actions of a very misguided fellow migrant.
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Wrote about this many years ago on Twitter, but your actual goal should be 5 trains/buses an hour - so a 12 minute interval.
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
If it’s not more convenient than driving, it will always be your second option.
May 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Wrote about this many years ago on Twitter, but your actual goal should be 5 trains/buses an hour - so a 12 minute interval.
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
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There is something here for us to learn. I think the NPSUD was going in the right direction, however so much of our paradigm is single dwelling focussed and unsuitable for the reality of our future.
If city council/planners actually planned for affordability, they’d ban mansions, not apartments. They’d have lot size maximums, not lot size minimums. They’d have higher fees per sq ft of mansion, not apartments. They’d charge the rich in mansions more, not everyone else in apartments.
March 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
There is something here for us to learn. I think the NPSUD was going in the right direction, however so much of our paradigm is single dwelling focussed and unsuitable for the reality of our future.
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I have no idea what that was about but I'm on their side.
February 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I have no idea what that was about but I'm on their side.
…”landlordism is the enemy of affordability”
I can’t recall any analysis from this perspective in Ao/Nz. Need to go looking.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I can’t recall any analysis from this perspective in Ao/Nz. Need to go looking.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis
Mass-scale housebuilding isn’t necessary – there is already enough housing stock. But we need to learn the wisdom of the last century when it comes to landlordism
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
…”landlordism is the enemy of affordability”
I can’t recall any analysis from this perspective in Ao/Nz. Need to go looking.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I can’t recall any analysis from this perspective in Ao/Nz. Need to go looking.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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We’re finally starting to see the results of prioritising water in our budget. Work crews have fixed over 4,000 leaks in the last year. The city also reduced its water consumption by a massive 20 mil litres per day. This is huge news for the Wellington region.
wellington.govt.nz/news-and-eve...
wellington.govt.nz/news-and-eve...
January 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
We’re finally starting to see the results of prioritising water in our budget. Work crews have fixed over 4,000 leaks in the last year. The city also reduced its water consumption by a massive 20 mil litres per day. This is huge news for the Wellington region.
wellington.govt.nz/news-and-eve...
wellington.govt.nz/news-and-eve...
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Saying people really want to drive cars is like saying people really want cupcakes when that’s all the Snack Department is handing out and you have to walk three floors down and pay $5 for apples and carrots.
Great stuff from @timtalkstrash.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/transp...
Great stuff from @timtalkstrash.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/transp...
Transport modelling is an illusion
People prefer cars, right? Probably not. Here's why.
www.linkedin.com
December 8, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Saying people really want to drive cars is like saying people really want cupcakes when that’s all the Snack Department is handing out and you have to walk three floors down and pay $5 for apples and carrots.
Great stuff from @timtalkstrash.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/transp...
Great stuff from @timtalkstrash.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/transp...
I want to know more about this within the Aotearoa/NZ context. A bit of work to do.
social housing.
LIHTC.
non-profit housing.
public housing.
limited profit housing associations.
coops.
cohousing.
collaborative housing.
syndicates.
community land trusts.
mutual housing associations.
community land banks.
LIHTC.
non-profit housing.
public housing.
limited profit housing associations.
coops.
cohousing.
collaborative housing.
syndicates.
community land trusts.
mutual housing associations.
community land banks.
December 27, 2024 at 10:40 PM
I want to know more about this within the Aotearoa/NZ context. A bit of work to do.
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Some cynics say it’s impossible, but the imperative act of reversing car supremacy is already happening in places around the world that have stopped making excuses, and started making progress.
32 cities (in 18 different countries) we visited this year that are making big changes to their streets.🧵
32 cities (in 18 different countries) we visited this year that are making big changes to their streets.🧵
December 12, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Some cynics say it’s impossible, but the imperative act of reversing car supremacy is already happening in places around the world that have stopped making excuses, and started making progress.
32 cities (in 18 different countries) we visited this year that are making big changes to their streets.🧵
32 cities (in 18 different countries) we visited this year that are making big changes to their streets.🧵
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Whatever happened to quality? Why do we accept that everything gets enshittified? What have we forgotten? lloydalter.substack.com/p/jargon-wat...
Jargon Watch: Qualinesia, or forgetting when things were better in the past
I have written about why things were often better in the past, and so did Vance Packard in his classic, The Waste Makers.
lloydalter.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Whatever happened to quality? Why do we accept that everything gets enshittified? What have we forgotten? lloydalter.substack.com/p/jargon-wat...
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The empirical evidence is clear and overwhelming: building more housing brings down prices.
This paper summarises what I see as the key points in the Australian housing debate, as of February 2024.
www.cis.org.au/wp-content/u... 1/8
www.cis.org.au/wp-content/u... 1/8
www.cis.org.au
November 25, 2024 at 6:12 PM
The empirical evidence is clear and overwhelming: building more housing brings down prices.
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This Vienna street isn’t “closed” because cars have been removed. It has successfully been “opened” to everything else, to a diverse and invigorated civic life, because cars have been replaced by a multitude of wonderful things.
Language matters.
HT @dmoser.bsky.social for pic #OpenStreets #Vienna
Language matters.
HT @dmoser.bsky.social for pic #OpenStreets #Vienna
November 21, 2024 at 1:36 AM
This Vienna street isn’t “closed” because cars have been removed. It has successfully been “opened” to everything else, to a diverse and invigorated civic life, because cars have been replaced by a multitude of wonderful things.
Language matters.
HT @dmoser.bsky.social for pic #OpenStreets #Vienna
Language matters.
HT @dmoser.bsky.social for pic #OpenStreets #Vienna
It’s fascinating how open we seem to be to American ‘trumpfugees’. Don’t get me wrong, I think the door should always be open, no matter, but usually migrants are blamed for many ills we witness in our neighbourhoods.
November 10, 2024 at 5:24 AM
It’s fascinating how open we seem to be to American ‘trumpfugees’. Don’t get me wrong, I think the door should always be open, no matter, but usually migrants are blamed for many ills we witness in our neighbourhoods.
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“We’ll be up for anything and everything” to reduce crime.
Feed hungry kids in school, healthcare, support for unemployed people, support for mental health?
Yeah, nah. None of those.
Feed hungry kids in school, healthcare, support for unemployed people, support for mental health?
Yeah, nah. None of those.
October 24, 2024 at 6:28 PM
“We’ll be up for anything and everything” to reduce crime.
Feed hungry kids in school, healthcare, support for unemployed people, support for mental health?
Yeah, nah. None of those.
Feed hungry kids in school, healthcare, support for unemployed people, support for mental health?
Yeah, nah. None of those.
Drove the main drag of Island Bay today. At last one can see a suburb being dragged out of the 70s and be made fit for living in an urban city environment.
Now if only we can lift the others blinkers we wear, that one street is almost a case study on hard it is to make change around here.
Now if only we can lift the others blinkers we wear, that one street is almost a case study on hard it is to make change around here.
October 17, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Drove the main drag of Island Bay today. At last one can see a suburb being dragged out of the 70s and be made fit for living in an urban city environment.
Now if only we can lift the others blinkers we wear, that one street is almost a case study on hard it is to make change around here.
Now if only we can lift the others blinkers we wear, that one street is almost a case study on hard it is to make change around here.
I started riding recently for my short inner city daily commute. 25min walk or car ride(including parking and then walking) reduced to 8-10 min on a bike. I am the ‘elite’ business buster.
Why is Joel from the Spinoff the only Wellington journo doing any actual followup to bullshit quotes from business owners? thespinoff.co.nz/wellington/1...
The mystery of the killer bike lane
A cafe chain closed down and the owner blamed cycleways – but none of the cafes were anywhere near one. What's really going on?
thespinoff.co.nz
September 10, 2024 at 7:52 AM
I started riding recently for my short inner city daily commute. 25min walk or car ride(including parking and then walking) reduced to 8-10 min on a bike. I am the ‘elite’ business buster.
Anyone notice Luxon just called for a ceasefire. Does it while visiting Malaysia. 11 months of effective silence and then this while on a visit to an Islamic country. It’s great to represented by this hypocrite.
September 3, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Anyone notice Luxon just called for a ceasefire. Does it while visiting Malaysia. 11 months of effective silence and then this while on a visit to an Islamic country. It’s great to represented by this hypocrite.
If I’ve got this right Mr Grant wants our government to become a developer that sells houses to poor people for a loss? Have I got that right?
Can’t be.
Can’t be.
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
May 26, 2024 at 2:44 AM
If I’ve got this right Mr Grant wants our government to become a developer that sells houses to poor people for a loss? Have I got that right?
Can’t be.
Can’t be.