Tom Grey

Still enjoying bluesky & delighted to see great activity here around sustainable & inclusive urbanism/planning, architecture/design/mobility etc. I'll be posting some links to my work and our research centre www.tcd.ie/trinityhaus/

Twelve-year-old wins Australian slam competition prize with poem about ChatGPT: ‘It’s totally unnecessary www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Absolutely FABULOUS news for all life on Earth, especially the Amazon rainforest!!!! Despite the fascists playing every dirty, cheating trick in the book to steal this election, the people of Brazil saw through the lies. So, so, happy and relieved this morning 🇧🇷 👏 share.google/UdpzcSkD5us7...

Our #StopDirtyDataCentres campaign is going international! Across Europe, communities are joining forces calling for a moratorium on large data centres until we can ensure they'll serve people and planet, not private greed. Join us on 6-7 November. Head to stopdirtydatacentres.eu for more.

Destroyed for a Date centre To make billionaires richer So you can chat to a chatbot So AI can take your job Hack your bank account Create a surveillance state 250,000 trees of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There was a brief window in history when the bicycle still felt like freedom itself — affordable, democratic, shared: before cars fully took over, before radio and television began pulling people back inside, there was the simple, physical way for friends to move through the same afternoon together.

What are you afraid of? Sharks🦈, lions🦁,bears🐻? Terrifying. Car traffic kills way more people than animals ever could. Even when excluding indirect harm. Watch out for the real predators🚗!

The brain is a terrible thing to pollute, at any stage of life. Even the brains of fetuses can be harmed by the air pollution their mothers’ breathe—and the consequences can burden them for their entire lives. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

#1 in Canadian Nonfiction for the 5th week in a row - bowled over by the reception at home. This country is in a fighting mood!

Elon Musk aggressively pushes Twitter subscribers to switch from "chronological" to "algorithmic" feeds. Once this choice is made, the subscriber will find his account instantly flooded with right-wing political propaganda that reflects the thinking of Elon Musk, a Nature study has concluded. Musk's

Are you with us, or Faithful to the Big Car? Cars are getting bigger & heavier, & children pay the price: research shows SUVs are 3x more likely than a smaller car to kill a child under 10. Sign @cleancitiescampaign.org's petition: cleancitiescampaign.org/join-the-mov...

It's not China. US Is a Big Reason for the World Losing Ground in the Fight Against Climate Change, UN Report Says www.usnews.com/news/world/a...

An estimated 1,500 people are dying prematurely in Ireland each year because of exposure to air pollution, despite the country meeting all existing European Union air-quality standards.

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australian researchers identify new subtype of depression linked to body clock disruptions www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Don’t be fooled. The AI that was supposed to save us time is doing just the opposite Gaby Hinsliff www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.

Never in 250 years has the United States so openly supported a murderous dictator’s aggression against a neighbor.

Blue for poor, yellow for posh: the London maps exposing centuries of terrible housing www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Today’s must read. I love every word of this: I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

In case facts still matter

80,000 people crossed into Ceuta, Spain, this summer. Few mentioned drought or heat. Both helped push them out.

See the effect of cars on whole societies. The car formed cities by its needs, so that people without cars are excluded from fair participation in cities. Illich wrote this in 1973. We do not want to repeat this pattern with #AI.

Good to see housing scooping the RIBA Stirling prize. Well done Mary Duggan architects 👏

Satish Jassal Architects’ Tottenham council housing project has won the RIBA’s  Neave Brown Award for Housing, which celebrates the UK’s best new affordable housing scheme.

How AI chatbots may be talking people out of climate action... Across 28,800 prompts, models were 7.5 times more likely to advise “stay the course” than “change,” even when the status quo is anti-climate. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/10/how-...

Built-in Agility and the Architecture of the Infinite Lifecycle www.archdaily.com/1186391/buil...

Andy Burnham first PM to confirm Kremlin role in Brexit vote The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Architects in Wonderland Decades ago James Marston Fitch argued that the reuse of existing buildings should be prioritized over the construction of new ones. His thesis, at once simple and radical, is more relevant than ever. placesjournal.org/article/arch...

Cycle commuters are less likely to receive prescriptions for antidepressants or anti-anxiety medication 🚲🧠 Source: Berrie et al. (2024), Does cycle commuting reduce the risk of mental ill-health? An instrumental variable analysis using distance to nearest cycle path, 🔗 buff.ly/tPSheDl

Recently completed brick apartments, in the city of Kerman, Iran What I like about this is the *depth* of the facade, with recessed balconies providing shade and privacy By Asar Studio Architecture

🧵: Census data help communities identify needs, track change, and target effective policy solutions. They also power Urban tools on affordability, debt, mobility, and financial well-being. Explore Urban's data tools and research ➡️ https://urbn.is/4ASHrn2 #2030Census #Census2030 #CensusData

This looks like a crucial investigation to me, building on an essential body of work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social Please help to support it. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...

🎉 Congratulations to Sanford Housing Co-op on being recognised as a Cooperative Cultural Heritage Site! Since the 1970s, Sanford has shown what co-op housing can achieve through collective ownership, self-management and community. #CooperativeHeritage #Coophousing

EU regional and local leaders adopt 'Mullingar Declaration - A Future worth staying for'...“The right to stay is about giving people a real choice about where and how they build their future" www.gov.ie/en/departmen... See also @westmeathexaminer.bsky.social www.westmeathexaminer.ie/2026/10/07/w...

The better approach is to create the conditions for cycling first: build demand; then invest in high-end infrastructure where the numbers justify. Not every street needs a protected lane, and sometimes the most important intervention is just a street where cars have been slowed, filtered or removed.

People around the world are making trade-offs every day to afford a safe, secure home. Here in Ireland, 35% of respondents agree that their housing situation is one of the biggest sources of stress in their lives. Read the full #HomeAtWhatCost research report: www.habitatireland.org/homeatwhatcost

On World Habitat Day Habitat for Humanity has launched “Home at What Cost?”, new global research which draws on nationally representative surveys conducted in 22 countries and the views of more than 30,000 people. You can read the full research report here: www.habitatireland.org/homeatwhatcost

Apartments in Basel, by EMI Architekten Large family homes, with three or four bedrooms. As there’s no central corridor each living space is dual aspect, so gets plenty of light and ventilation And it’s a low carbon timber structure too. Build like this everywhere!

More on the architects’ website buttress.net/projects/wil...

"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.