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Tom Fay
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Master’s student in Urban Planning ‪@uwebristol
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ON SUBURBAN SPRAWL: “Bankrupting municipal budgets, creating epidemics of preventable diseases, and helping to cause climate change — that’s how you start a conversation why more of our growth should go to infill and transit-oriented development. The argument is not ideological, it’s mathematical.”
Dense urbanism is great for downtowns. But what about suburbs?
Urbanist Brent Toderian reflects on which suburbs can be saved and made more walkable.
www.vox.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own.

Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest? Thread: 1/
November 18, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Imagine your country is exposed to this level of terror. You wouldn’t negotiate with the terrorists from this neighboring country. You would fight back.

Freedom is not negotiable. Freedom is not for free. You are just curtailing your own freedom if you expect any other country should accept this.
November 17, 2024 at 11:08 AM