Balint Halasz

Heat map of 2 weeks bike commuting #cycletowork #Budapest

What we often forget is the opportunity cost of meat based diets. And another interesting (debated?) point on extensive vs. intensive farming. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Economic costs of further disintegration would be most probably incomparably higher than a no-deal #brexit

EU’s primary goal in the negotiations is to prevent further disintegration, it’s clearly against its best interest to enter a ‘good deal’ for the UK. This would apply to any other member state. What a well documented, huge political mistake not to realise. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

London subcultures

10000 people out there to transform the city, well done #ibikebp #CriticalMass @lorena_ax

An interesting Keller Easterling interview on the idea of Medium Design, on working with indeterminacy and on designing protocols of interplay rather than just objects volumeproject.org/empowering-des…

On Soviet po-mo and Jorbusier bit.ly/2DigmQT #tbilisi

Warsaw Radio Mast, built in 1974, collapsed in 1991

Belgrade parasite

All the bits that make up an American prefab suburban house. Fabulous photo by Arnold Newman (1949).

It might be time to put planners’ idle visionary capacity into action to make better places placesjournal.org/article/jane-j… via @PlacesJournal

So, PM Orban is leading a xenophobic campain to win far right votes. Consequently Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein UN commissioner for human rights calls him xenophobic. Then, Orban’s foreign minister asks him to resign. Where’s the logic in this, shouldn’t he rather thank free publicity?

@dragonofbudapes He has some good points!

“Modernism’s aesthetical ethos of saving, of an economic minimalism, now serves an entirely different purpose. It serves not the happy many, but the happy few. I don’t think anybody who practices modern architecture is even vaguely aware of this.” failedarchitecture.com/reinier-de-gra…

Good practice if we really need to build supermarkets hbge.net/j5i-7

What happens in Eastern Europe when the municipality can access development funds only for investing in local tourism, but the residents actually need a new bus stop? The observation tower-bus stop!

3) (d) turning into a charlatan by taking over other disciplines’ roles without the know-how; (e) retire; Any other idea?

2) (b) staying marginal with involvement in grassroots/bottom-up initiatives that are hardly working above a certain project scale (c) unintentionally serving increasingly populist and unprofessional political agendas by getting involved in often corrupted government projects;

1) Five possible paths for architects these days, none of them is appealing: (a) shaking off political responsibility with proclaiming the city ungovernable and taking a subordinate position to the client with accepting the logic of market economy