π One planet. Adaptive reuse. Sufficiency & enrgy efficiency. Community, consume less, share economy. Low-tech solutions. Qual Architect, Researcher, Teacher.
Joined July 2009
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- Learnt so much from being a co-editor on this book.
- Bk is part of Prof. Sarah Sayceβs huge legacy.
- I contribute a chapter about vacancy data, often used to inform reactive urban policy
- My fave is chapter 5 - on regulation & policy development for extg buildings
23 Aug 2022
New E-Book: Resilient Building Retrofits.
Retrofitting commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency - what must be done, how it could be achieved?
Access here ebookcentral.proquest.com/liβ¦
#resilience #climatechange #buildings
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Last post, Iβm moving my SM posts to my private personal account, and Linkedin where thereβs much more transparency on who engages with the content I post.
Happy to connect via insta (same handle as X) and on Linkedin. X was good fun but it had its day a while ago
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Excellent thread explaining global slump in housing affordability. Only developers with invested interests may say βits Planningβ. Planning isnβt to blame! Monetising housing & poor financial mechanisms makes houses unaffordable & rots the stock faster than any period
11 Oct 2024
Last year I was commissioned by the UK ministry of housing to write a report on the demand side-drivers of the housing affordability crisis.
After some election-related delays, here it is. (1/13)
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-puβ¦
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Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB β€οΈππ retweeted
25 Sep 2024
Name a more iconic Aussie silhouette... we'll wait π¦π
π Gembrook, Yarra Valley, a one-hour drive from Melbourne on Bunurong country
πΈ via IG/melbourneadz
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This week Iβm touched by many msgs of support to a short eulogy I wrote to honour my Dad. I wish it wasn't the end of your time. As Scott-Holland wrote, βDeath is nothing at all. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?β
My eulogy to Dad:
linkedin.com/posts/activity-β¦
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Jetlag gift - wide awake & enjoying the silence whilst my lovely fam are sound asleep. Only my bunny interupts, with lettuce crunching & nose nudges when I pause giving her pets. She is extra floofy atm due to changing weather. Fluff in my coffee, but a lovely start to weekend
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Sense of self in Collingwood is my favourite adaptive reuse - industrial architecture to beautiful bath house - pools, sauna, steam room. Bliss in the middle of urban inner city, nicely connected by trams to get home, and a few bars along the way :)
Perfect Saturday eve
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Sadly, its now at least 4 weeks since my relative started with delirium. Despite advocating for them - suggesting on 19/7, their symptoms might be delirium (past experience of this) the geriatric consultant has confirmed delirium this week - 4 weeks later
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She now only refers to me as CC Gill π€£ Friends said I should change my name to it.
Advocating for a loved one in a medical emergency is never patronising nor insulting. I do not use negative terms. I share here to stand up & stop abusive behaviours, its and not ok nor normal
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The abuse I have had, in trying to advocate for an elderly relative, is shocking.
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Turns out, it is deliriumβ¦but its now 4 weeks since onset, despite speaking out using my intuition & past experience of relatives with this exact condition prior to death. I do not get why, in an emergency, ppl cannot pause abusive behaviours, even for a short time
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Their pattern of abuse is life-long & it is normal for them. Its really not normal though no matter how often repeated
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Been using my research skills this week to understand a medical condition called delirium. Itβs something Iβve come across before with elderly relatives, and always been surprised by the lack on understanding about this life threatening condition π§΅
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-causes permanent damage or death.
Not in the article, but from personal experience of relatives being diagnosed too late:
βgeriatric consultants in the UK donβt seem up to date/well versed in understanding delirium yet
βBest research cluster is in US university hospitals
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No longer supporting any of Muskβs platforms. My social media footprint is wider than X. Happy to connect to you on other platforms β€οΈ
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Exactly right Ben...politics of hate. These ppl do not feel any joy. They always say they are defending women but they are violent thugs. Hate & blame is a herpes virus in the uk...you can see it on everyoneβs faces & their behaviours. Hateful minds, been normalised for decades
3 Aug 2024
Thatβs no way for a society to be. It has to be a source of deep shame that people who are already marginalised in our societies are now living in fear of violence by angry mobs, goaded on my reckless, poisonous βspokespeopleβ for a politics of hate. We have to stop this. 13/13
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Charities rallying round as domestic violence from these thugs will spike. Violent & tribal agression, normally contained to football cages, spills over once again
4 Aug 2024
"You will regret taking part," says PM Keir Starmer as he describes "far-right thuggery" on UK streets
Follow live bbc.in/3yh2hRM
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