Prosocial Place

The real thing involves irrational humans and the development and maintenance of social negotiation rules. Real life is much more interesting...

Our Backin' Birkenhead Community Sessions begin on Saturday with a Walking Conversation around town.

The question of the day is, "What does Birkenhead feel like to you?"

We'll start out from MAKE around 10:30
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It's taken some time building up the Backin' Birkenhead Town Team, but we're ready to start conversations now on the future of the town. Everyone with an interest in the town is invited to come along, join in, and help get things moving...

To be honest, it still feels uneccessarily cluttered with cars

There were young adults at best, and with such bitter disposition towards their fellow human beings, I'd be very surprised if any were alive now

The few that are, will likely be in nursing homes being cared for by people they don't like!

I think the people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges are all thankfully dead now...

'Wolfdog' Sold for $5.7 Million, Becomes World's Most Expensive Dog Cadabomb Okami, a rare "wolfdog," became the world's most expensive dog after an Indian enthusiast bought him for $570 million.

As it's not April 1st, what about this clown... all that money, and it's likely to eat him!
dogtime.com/news/171615-...

Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his disability benefits because he h…

The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form.

It isn't a street, it's a road!

Government agencies even promote it on their report covers

I very much doubt that

Isn't 66% of 4% 2.6%? Far worse if my maths is correct

It was 2.6% of eligible Parisiens Brent - which might indicate a top-down decision without proper engagement with disenfranchised communities

But it shouldn't be about for or against. It needs to be about engagement with the affected communities and the inclusion of them in the changes to their environments

Without taking people with them, and dare I suggest codesigning, there are likely to be problems down the line in individual streets

Wasn't this obvious with their stance against Corbyn?

Cars are a major problem that is causing the climate crisis regardless of the type of motor they have.

Public transport and active travel in denser cities is what we need alongside a reduction in population

Well, 2.6% of them did! It's hardly a mandate...

Where are all these imaginary jobs that you can just go out and get on a Saturday to top up your additional living needs as a disabled person

I know... helping the government process action against all those covid profiteers

The business model isn't the right way of running these institutions, especially where they have an obsession with building programmes with the best architects!

My wife has been through a lot of academic strikes over recent years. I think that they are winning out, but it's costing us a lot, saving the university money and affecting students!

www.facebook.com/share/r/15xT...

They're running a business, though, and have successfully engaged a workforce willing to work for peanuts and out of hours to keep up with the workload

Our son got a first in landscape architecture & spent a year in practice, which didn't suit him. He's now designing & building gardens

Looking over his shoulder & nudging, I'm teaching him about the dynamic nature of lines colliding, overlapping, & creating spatial comfort. It's the subtle X-factor

Saw a video of a kestrel hovering this morning. Its head ws perfectly still in the space while its body fluttered to maintain that stillness. It was turning its head to scan the ground as if the air was solid
Lots to think about from a design perspective

Always been a fan of broken slab paving

It's the patches of empty compacted soil I'm looking at in the knowledge that behind those kerbs will be concrete launching that narrows the plant beds further

There are many approaches - the first would be to have the cycle path at or near the same grade as the pavement to enable people to cross with more ease

Remove the parking

Minimise the planting barrier

Have wider tree pits with shrubs

Ensure the pavements are accessible

Also tackle the land values that are crippling the whole system with huge profits at no risk to the owner

I'd agree with that, but would like to see all new development delivered at at least medium density going forward. Would be better to get rid of cul-de-sac suburbia first

You clearly haven't understood the point... people are generally seeing something wrong with the development proposals coming forward. Its easy to dismiss them as Nimbys because they can't articulate what that is

I'm a professional twhocan also see the problems, and I can't articulate them