Divyesh - @divyeshm.bsky.social

A city that makes cars obsolete and builds transport purely on fundamentals of walking, cycling and public transit are cities that are designed for future. Paris is leading, and London, NYC, Beijing are catching up.

I love me a Toronto special. Please give me more skyscrapers growing out of 19th century traditional facades. They're like crack to me.

63% of England is used for agriculture 20% is moors and lakes Just 8.7% is developed (this includes gardens and parks) London has more tree cover than Suffolk. The pic below is from Hackney. Private developers are failing yes, but it’s farming’s relationship with nature that needs rectifying urgently if we’re going to reverse nature depletion.

@ccoozzaa For a Green Party, they’re not very Green. See their position on HS2, nuclear energy, densification.

the amount of white british gays against the greens….. ur weird

@Francesforbesca @RosieP4 @shivmalik @DanicaPriest I'd rather they sit in "luxury flats" than low-density sprawl.

@_DivyeshM @RosieP4 @shivmalik @DanicaPriest It’s not supported by transit. It is not strategically located at all. I think the idea is that the 400K residents sit in their luxury flats doing tech jobs from home

Comparing this majestic ancient oak to the trees in the concept artwork for “Forest City” is dispiriting to say the least How long will they take to grow? They won’t look like the below concept image in our lifetimes @RosieP4 @DanicaPriest #forestcity

Pro tip: You can absolutely be racist in leftist circles, you just have to call them diaspora.

@RosieP4 @Francesforbesca @shivmalik @DanicaPriest Building high density housing supported by transit is good for the environment. Something you conservation environmentalists don't get.

@Francesforbesca @shivmalik @DanicaPriest If Shiv wants to help nature in East Anglia, a 400,000-home city is definitely not the way to do it!

@Francesforbesca @RosieP4 @DanicaPriest It's entirely possible in maybe 10-20 years, you have to build infrastructure correctly to allow tree roots to spread. Whether Forest City is looking at other cities that have successfully done so (i.e. Toronto's waterfront) and what it takes is another matter altogether.

@LukeDyks Also, the subject areas are clustered, so studying "medicine" doesn't automatically mean medical school. For example, UCL and King's (disclosure, where I work) have been Psych faculties, but a lot of those students aren't clinical students (though many are) which skews it.

@LukeDyks The range is a tight here anyways, so not much difference between academic/research/clinical pathways.

@DeptfordWife1 @traveledenough RUDE

@traveledenough Taking the Piccadilly line to Heathrow is for the peons

Would be nice if they could sort the Picc line at Heathrow ✈️

@LilyWonderland5 @JamesFl But we don't need just *social* housing, we need housing for everyone, even "rich" people housing.

@JamesFl I agree it's weird to vote Reform UK or Tories, but the Greens support using modern construction techniques and social housing increased. Seems pretty gppd.

Londoners really saw homebuilding in their city collapse and then said "what if we also stacked our councils full of NIMBYs"

I’m on my rave mood again

Muang Thai Restaurant in Camden is amazing but please believe the staff about the spice levels 😂

Decided to go for Thai before this gig at the Roundhouse and I’m dying from spice

So the French public TV decided to broadcast the movie Persepolis, an autobiographic movie about a girl and her family going through the 1979 revolution in Iran and the years that follow. It deals with the brutal repression of the opposition by the Shah prior to the revolution as well as the brutal social control imposed after the revolution by the mollahs. A great movie and a must watch/read (it's also a graphic novel). But it is now being criticised by a number of leftist activists as "war propaganda", an islamophobic movie that depicts a caricature of Iran under the mollah and that actually most women are actually better off under their regime. I'm starting to be convinced that part of the left actually wants the far right to come into power next year.

bUT wE sHOulDnT bUiLd mOaR LrtS

@CrimCartier This is very weird. I can’t think of a government that funds spots for foreigners to study abroad, the closest I can think of is universities themselves funding opportunities to diversify their international mix (which would not target Indians or Chinese nationals).

Please oh God in heaven…

Whoops, my parents are stuck in India thanks to flight cancellations.