Thread by @Josh_Artus

Wanted to share my top 20 pieces of content from 2019. Hope they inspire you as they did me 👇

1/ Towards a New System of Community Wealth by @DrexelLab as a paper breaking down the structural inefficiencies that exist in modern America for creating sustainably productive communities drexel.edu/nowak-lab/publ…

@DrexelLab 2/ Wellbeing should replace growth as 'main aim of UK spending' from @RJPartington. This will become more relevant as "growth" yields consequences too great to ignore in the 21st century. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington 3/ Finland’s new library speaks volumes about the world’s most literate nation.

There is so much to love in this piece in how one building well thought out can bring so much dignity and respect to a society.

#placemaking

newstatesman.com/spotlight/skil…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington 4/ Learning about @aboutKP's system's thinking in action. In this case using the built environment as a tool, rather than a direct income stream to improve health outcomes.

fastcompany.com/90291860/this-…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP 5/ The empathy and participatory approach to provide a school for homeless children by @ptokc.

citylab.com/equity/2019/01…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc 6/ A mixed use development in the Netherlands that incorporates amenities and programming that builds community resilience, purpose and consequentially reduces the embodied carbon of people living and working there.

#RealEstate #sustainableliving

fastcompany.com/90295742/this-…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc 7/ Stop Seeing Climate Change as an “Opportunity” for Architecture by @FailedArch - a well written critique that climate adaption is a broader human adaption question rather than water barriers and promises of utopian living.

failedarchitecture.com/stop-seeing-cl…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch 8/ A brilliant report from @UrbanLandInst and Heitman LLC on the severity of the global investment impacts of #Climatechange on #RealEstate.

A MUST READ for real estate people!!!

americas.uli.org/general-posts/…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst 9/ A new breed of environmentally conscious investor is starting to bet against losers in the race to save the planet.

Can the elements that caused the problem solve it? No, but an interesting turn regardless that can yield change.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst 10/ This brutal and powerfully written piece by @umairh titled 'Why Predatory Capitalism Failed'.

Loved this line "We tore the world and planet apart for…nothing."

Brough to my attention *what* are we working towards as a civilisation?

eand.co/why-predatory-…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh 11/ Then seeing more light in this interview between @ezraklein and @ystrickler titled 'There’s more to life than profit'

More leaders like Yancey please ✊

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler 12/ This post by @profgalloway on WeWork, which was brilliant but also pretty much fo this line alone:

"As a culture, we are much easier to fool, than convince we've been fooled" - profgalloway.com/wewtf

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler @profgalloway 13/ An alternative and well positioned view of our confirmation bias and why Obama was actually bad, by @matthewstoller

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/15-…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler @profgalloway @matthewstoller 14/ "To understand climate change, one environmental historian says we need to realize we've entered a new era: the Capitalocene" - brilliant read from @mrMattSimon in @WIRED

wired.com/story/capitalo…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler @profgalloway @matthewstoller @mrMattSimon @WIRED 15/ This @FT piece which principally highlighted our work at @TheCentricLab in which urban systems impart our lives with undue stressors.

Time to clean up our habitats. There's no two ways about it unless you're happy to impart on ill-health to others.

ft.com/content/6f381a…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler @profgalloway @matthewstoller @mrMattSimon @WIRED @FT @TheCentricLab 16/ Great podcast from @dannyfortson interviewing @BlueZones's Dan Buettner where they talk about health and wellbeing as a habitat and system related issue not just one based on *choice*.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blu…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler @profgalloway @matthewstoller @mrMattSimon @WIRED @FT @TheCentricLab @dannyfortson @BlueZones 17/ The Quest for Clean Air.

A good piece articulating how toxic and complex our air has become and it's not solved through isolated actions.

wired.com/story/the-ques…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler @profgalloway @matthewstoller @mrMattSimon @WIRED @FT @TheCentricLab @dannyfortson @BlueZones 18/ I'm a long time cynic of *different* cars as the solution to our mobility and urban problems. Another situation of treating symptoms rather than the disease.

Well written and researched piece on our modern relationship of vehicle based mobility.

theguardian.com/technology/201…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler @profgalloway @matthewstoller @mrMattSimon @WIRED @FT @TheCentricLab @dannyfortson @BlueZones 19/ Brilliant report from the @circulareconomy on methods to update the methods food production given the current ones are becoming redundant from (a) health and (b) climate change reasons.

ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/news/new-ellen…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler @profgalloway @matthewstoller @mrMattSimon @WIRED @FT @TheCentricLab @dannyfortson @BlueZones @circulareconomy 20/ And of course @aracelicamargo_ being interviewed by @ThePlanner_RTPI on our (@TheCentricLab's) recent report on health in cities and the development of our geospatial software.

theplanner.co.uk/features/stres…

@DrexelLab @RJPartington @aboutKP @ptokc @FailedArch @UrbanLandInst @umairh @ezraklein @ystrickler @profgalloway @matthewstoller @mrMattSimon @WIRED @FT @TheCentricLab @dannyfortson @BlueZones @circulareconomy @aracelicamargo_ @ThePlanner_RTPI Hope there's something in there for someone.

Thank you to everyone who produced it.

Knowledge is power ✊🌍🧠