Late to everything, including Twitter. Placebranding, cities, regen, workspace, comms @icclimited. Former restaurateur @hawkerbar. #Billsmafia and #NYKnicks fan
From Hackney, With Love: An Intimate History of Gentrification is out now! 📣
Thank you to all the love and support for my new book that explores the complex history of gentrification in Hackney and its controversial impact on our communities.
Please continue to share, support and tell our story!
You can buy my book on Amazon and all major book stores (do leave a review!)
https://t.co/LqjHlrBSVJ
Love ❤️
#Hackney #Gentrification #EastLondon #Urbanism #BlackBritain
There are so many stations in Britain that serve fields not people.
If the Government takes a hard look into them, ‘mirror towns’ are an idea that could reflect well on them. Read more in our New Towns report with @createstreets
The narrative is broken - we don’t buy it. We are seeing the best entrepreneurs building the most daring companies in Europe; and we want to back them!
Raised $500M in new funds, and penned a letter to founders. Read it on https://t.co/Kcdp07NMTa
New piece on Shein, the sort of Singaporean, but really Chinese, fast fashion company that is everywhere but no one knows much about.
How the exceedingly opaque company and its billionaire founder became a Chinese success story realized in America:
https://t.co/LqO0zBpbq0
Last month, I joined a tour group in the Philippines and spent a week on Thitu Island (Pag-asa Island) in the South China Sea. The boat ride took 32 hours. There was snorkeling and a beauty pageant and the constant threat of the Chinese forces:
https://t.co/iH6EWIPijR
London-based friends and Hong Kongers in the London area, @TMclaughlin3 will be speaking about Among the Braves in commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the 2019 protests at the LSE this June -- open to all! @LSEpublicevents
https://t.co/nakxotkuCD
Some personal news to share today!
Thrilled to continue working with the amazing founders I’ve teamed up with & many new to come 👀, wearing bigger sized shoes today - as a Partner at @CherryVentures
https://t.co/TrbvbB85zF
UK friends: Among the Braves is finally back in stock on Amazon UK, Waterstones and other major bookstores, thank you for waiting 🙏:
https://t.co/0Kt0QXRtOp
Among the Braves is officially available in the UK today -- those who pre-ordered should be getting theirs soon in the mail, and it will be available at major retailers like Foyle's, Waterstones, etc.! https://t.co/IvghGK7qRp
How Mansion Blocks Filled London With Stacks of Flats
A good article about my favourite housing typology- and ripe for a revival as London’s housing shortage deepens. https://t.co/iP7intLTsg
Among the Braves reviewed in @TheEconomist, with a headline that captures what many have expressed to us in different ways: "Hong Kong’s year of protest now feels like a mirage"
https://t.co/3RVPFHXyDw
How can we unleash the full potential of our cities? Here is and exciting vision. @ICClimited has relished working with @theRSAorg & @corecities, sharing our practical experience to inform the research and drafting. Now for a bold new stage of delivery.
Tucked away in the lower half of a historic front page, our story on China's influence in Singapore (and proof that there is nothing contradictory about holding U.S. institutions incld. the presidency to account while having a critical, investigative eye to the rest of the world)