Media interest in global warming appears to have declined somewhat after it had peaked in 2009 when the UN Copenhagen Conference was held. Except for a spike before and after the UN Paris conference in November, the graphs below show a declining number of news articles on the subject. The diminishing media interest appears to correlate […]
Month: January 2016
PEDESTRIANS A MEASURE OF IDEAL URBAN SPACES
“Artists, philosophers, urban planners and architects have been dreaming, writing about and drawing ‘ideal cities’ for hundreds of years…In most of these visions the pedestrian is the measure of ideal urban spaces.” From European Cooperation in Science and Technology (Methorst 2010, p.34) Tracy D. Writes.. “Council have not provided the proper facilities for walking and cycling […]
WHY HAS INACTIVITY BECOME SO APPEALING?
Two thousand years ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said, that if we all had “the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not to little and not to much, we would have found the safest way to health”. Unfortunately we have not heeded the advice from Hippocrates. Governments and local Councils should be doing more […]
EVACUATION FROM HIGH-RISE APARTMENT FIRE
The risk of emergencies such as fires escalating into full scale disasters in Doncaster Hill apartment buildings are very real. Councils and Owners Corporations have a legal and moral responsibility to provide systems and procedures to ensure that minor incidents do not escalate into full scale emergencies, if and when they do, occupants can be […]