The Happy Design Toolkit is a book on how good architecture can help mental health in the community. Simple factors like lighting, comfort and access to nature and social interaction, can alll impact how we feel. The book features 100 hand-drawn illustrations (including roof gardens). And shows how ‘bumping into each other’ architecture can cure…
town planning
ideas to solve our car parking problems
Heather Stillufsen JustPark is a smarter way to find a parking space, if you drive. Rather than pay big car park companies huge amounts in towns and airports, just sign up and use the app to find people who earn passive income to rent out their garage, driveway or small ofifices (or empty spaces in…
simple solutions to help stop flooding
image England (like everywhere) is experiencing increasing floods, due partly to climate change and coastal erosion, but also as trees are chopped down (they soak up water from rainfalls). Flooding does not just cause rivers to burst their banks, but can render homes inhabitable and kill humans, pets and wildlife. Insurance premiums rocket (or are…
how to help our hooting (or screeching!) owls
Caroline Smith England has a few species of owls. The ones that ‘too-wit too-woo’ at night are tawny owls. We also have barn owls (with heart-shaped faces) with bloodcurdling screams, shy little owls (that sometimes hide in drains), short-eared and long-eared owls (with ‘tufts’) and European eagle owls (possibly escaped from captivity are quite rare). Snowy…