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Marcus Grant
@marcusxgrant.bsky.social
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Just starting out in this place. Editor-in-Chief of Cities & Health journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcah20
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · May 19
What can sociology offer urban public health?

Just discovered this blindly good article! Perfect segue between the objectives of 'town' planning and population health and well-being.
Viva #HealthyUrbanPlanning #Cities4Health
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
What can sociology offer urban public health?
Published in Critical Public Health (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2019)
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Impact on Urban Health @impurbanhealth.bsky.social · 1d
🚛 Diesel van deliveries cost London over £2 billion every year in hidden health and environmental costs.

🔍 But how much do LGVs and HGVs contribute to air pollution in your borough?

Check out our data visualisation to find out 👇
Freight and air pollution. What's the problem?
Freight is the backbone of the economy. But an outdated system is congesting cities and harming people's health in urban areas.
urbanhealth.org.uk
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 1d
See also @citiesxhealth.bsky.social's first-ever Special Issue!
'Child-friendly cities'
@stsucl.bsky.social #ChildFriendlyCities

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcah20/3...
Cities & Health
Child-friendly cities. Volume 3, Issue 1-2 of Cities & Health
www.tandfonline.com
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 1d
And coverage in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Children in England ‘face barriers to outdoor play due to poor planning’
‘Fragmented’ policies leading councils to prioritise approval of housebuilding over parks, study finds
www.theguardian.com
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 1d
Further coverage here:
www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/...
Space for play is being ‘designed-out’ of urban childhoods | UCL IOE - Faculty of Education and Society
Children growing up in British cities face barriers to safe, playable spaces as financial constraints, policy misalignment and housing pressures cause planners to prioritise property over parks,
www.wired-gov.net
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 1d
🛝Housing is prioritized over play spaces for children in housing developments, new
@citiesxhealth.bsky.social health study suggests

'More needs to be done to embed play into policy to ensure children have spaces to play and improve their wellbeing'.

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Designing play into urban environments: strategic-level challenges and best practice in Bradford and Tower Hamlets, UK
Children have a fundamental need to play and be physically active for their health and wellbeing. Cities, enacted through both built environment and strategic policies, have the potential to enhanc...
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 1d
Yes. This 🔽
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 2d
Climate change disasters as a matter of personal responsibility. "The advisories emphasize the importance of increased personal responsibility in preventing wildfires" www.newsweek.com/wildfire-ris...
Warning issued as entire state faces wildfire risk
National Weather Service meteorologists have issued warnings for Maine amid dry, windy weather.
www.newsweek.com
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Environmental Coffeehouse~ Sandy @envirocoffeehouse.bsky.social · 2d
What do you think?
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d
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Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 12d
Communities are self-organising increasingly to run their own local services. But why do some so-called ‘DIY urbanism’ projects survive and others fail? New open access publication by Zulfikar D. W. Putra & Mark Tewdwr-Jones now published in Cities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks. Great paper.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 12d
3°C of global warming by 2050 could lead to >4 billion deaths.

No one would put their family on an airplane that has a 5% (or 0.005%) chance of crashing.

While most are complacently contributing to the destruction of our global life support system.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 13d
BREAKING 🌍🌡📈
The German Meteorological Society and Physical Society warn today that 3°C of global warming could be reached already by 2050!

Global warming is accelerating - A call for decisive action

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 2d
It shows once again that capitalism is an extremely inefficient system characterized by high levels of aggregate production to the point of driving ecological breakdown, even while masses of humanity remain deprived of basic needs.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 2d
This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 5d
Average cost overrun for #nuclear power plant build is a staggering 102.5%
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Beyond economies of scale: Learning from construction cost overrun risks and time delays in global energy infrastructure projects
Every single energy infrastructure project today was once on paper only, and imagined only as a future project, one that had to be financed, planned f…
www.sciencedirect.com
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 3d
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 6d
Pope Leo condemns climate change critics

Bravo.

As @billmckibben.bsky.social pointed out in his newsletter yesterday, the Catholic Church has tremendous influence and resource & can shape opinion and action.

It might be the best thing Catholicism ever does.
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.
www.bbc.com
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 4d
What about the grief of millions of Palestinians who've had their homes and lives destroyed, their families butchered, their babies burned alive?! The attack yesterday was dreadful. Two innocent people were killed: one was shot dead by police.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Starmer to protesters: 'Respect grief of British Jews'
The prime minister said pro-Palestinian protests planned for the weekend would cause distress.
www.bbc.com
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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 4d
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 4d
UK political class ‘poisoned by wealth’, says Zack Polanski as he sets out plan to tax assets of richest 1%.
Green party leader says a ‘tiny few have taken our wealth and power’
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
UK political class ‘poisoned by wealth’, says Zack Polanski as he sets out plan to tax assets of richest 1% – as it happened
Polanski earlier called for patriotism debate to go beyond beyond ‘waving flags’
www.theguardian.com
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 4d
Yup, destroy a safe climate and get this ⬇️.

Age of Stupid.
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 4d
'Flash floods hit as heavy rains sweep multiple cities

A series of intense rainstorms has swept through several provinces, triggering flash flooding & disrupting daily life, prompting authorities to issue warnings & urge residents to exercise caution.'

www.hurriyetdailynews.com/flash-floods...
Flash floods hit as heavy rains sweep multiple cities - Türkiye News
A series of intense rainstorms has swept through several provinces, triggering flash flooding and disrupting daily life, prompting authorities to issue warnings and urge residents to exercise caution.
www.hurriyetdailynews.com
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Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 3d
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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 4d
There is a direct connection between the actual large wave of Jewish refugees who came to Britain in the 1890s, fleeing pogroms and discrimination in Tsarist Russia, and the fact that so few Jewish refugees were admitted in the 1930s.

Britain passed the Aliens Act 1905 to keep most other Jews out.
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 4d
#Trump #Farage #Putin #ICE #ReformUK

vs

#ECHR #HumanRights
"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 11d
In 2024 alone, banks injected $869 billion into fossil fuel financing.

💚💚 Our DIRTY SCRUBBERS were out cleaning blood, oil, and greenwash from Banks in Eastbourne yesterday 💚💚
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