RIP to my friend and former colleague, Richard Vines. He was so kind and always a treat to work with. I had the luck of editing much of his output from roughly 2015 to 2020 and wanted to share some of my favourites of his work (thread) https://t.co/WVZBrm5lGd
What made him different was the review you'll never read. He told me of a terrible experience at a top restaurant, hundreds of pounds. I said to him, "that sure will get read." But guess what. 7/x
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1) Bulawayo residents go for five 1/2 days a week without any running tap water. The water cuts tend to go beyond the schedule worsened by power outages which affect pumping of limited supplies, making a bad situation, even worse.
Read: https://t.co/o5z8TtZCF6
The booming UK university town of Cambridge is seen as an economic revival model. But not everyone is sharing in its success. https://t.co/irFOCb0pN1 via @citylab
Citizens of South Sudan's capital grapple with a lack of power, running water, salaries and medicine as the nation's key revenue source dries up https://t.co/4Yc1D4VAfG
NEW: Demand for new permits to comb the River Thames shoreline for relics of the past 2,000 years was so great that it crashed the website. via @b_muzz https://t.co/xO0TIJlUSB via @citylab
Move over, Marble Arch Mound! Shanghai has spent £225m and 30,000 tonnes of steel and concrete to build its very own Twin Hills... https://t.co/V37NsAj52J
Cargo bikes have quickly gone from practically nowhere to seemingly everywhere, saving cities from polluting half-empty vans. New from @laura_laker https://t.co/0n7xYXdPdH via @citylab