Marcus Grant

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[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Who can forget this famous reenactment from Don’t Look Up via @gbnews in 2022

[Marcus Grant @MarcusxGrant]

How to Help to Plan a Healthy, Sustainable, Low-carbon Community
co-authors: Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Philip Insall
Chapter from 2009 is available on @ResearchGate: https://t.co/GsJSlj27XF

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

@SpitzZev @TaliGoldsheft @Ok_Solly Peace is a 2 way street. It needs leaders on both sides who want to make peace. Ben-Gvir does not want peace at all.

[Healthy City Design 2026 International Congress @HCDCongress]

🌟 Introducing our Programme Committee

Member: @MarcusxGrant, editor-in-chief, @CitiesxHealth – linking neighbourhoods, policy and urban planning to improve city-wide health outcomes

#HCD2026 #UrbanHealth #HealthyCities

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"Bicycles take up too much space."

[CyclingMikey the Unspeakable @MikeyCycling]

Am I right about texting whilst stationary still being dangerous?

[ISUH @IS_UrbanHealth]

We’re excited to highlight @CitiesxHealth's latest climate-focused Special Issue, developed in close collaboration with our team!

The issue explores how #planning #design & #governance can protect #health amid #climate change while advancing #equity: https://t.co/neh8nV5Kko

[Sridevi Rao Ph.D @sitahyderabadi]

@PMOIndia

[ISUH @IS_UrbanHealth]

The workshop “Urban Spaces & Emotional Responses” at #ICUH25 explored how we map emotions in public space, the power of restorative #urbanism & what it takes to #design #cities that are mentally restoring — by @iitroorkee team Dr. Tina Pujara & Shreya Shukla

#UrbanHealth

[Cities & Health @CitiesxHealth]

Research for city practice: exploring regenerative practices for coexistence by @MarcusxGrant & Gregor H. Mews
Free access!
https://t.co/VSUlndnTVV

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The unethical truth of net zero. Around 40,000 child slaves in Congo work in hazardous conditions in cobalt mines, with inadequate safety equipment and for very little money. The cobalt is used in many products - including electric car batteries.

[Ciaran Cannon @ciarancannon]

Helsinki, a city roughly the same size as Dublin, has had zero road deaths over the last year. How?

1. 30kph speed limit.
2. Better public transport.
3. Better street design.
4. Better law enforcement.
5. Courage

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Romi Gonen was kidnapped from Nova on October 7, 2023. During the first month of her captivity in Gaza, she was r*ped repeatedly by four different men.

At one point, she was crying so intensely in a Hamas tunnel that she was summoned for a call with a senior Hamas official. On the phone, Izz al-Din al-Haddad — then commander of Hamas’s Northern Gaza Brigade and now Hamas’s top leader in Gaza — asked her to explain her situation. After hearing how his men had treated her, he offered her a deal: remain silent about the sexual assaults, and he would place her at the top of the release list.

Romi Gonen was released on January 19, 2025. On the day of her release, Haddad told her: “Here, you’re going out first. Do you remember your promise to me? I hope you fulfill it.”

Romi waited until all the hostages were released before telling her story, fearing Hamas would retaliate against those still in captivity. Now, she will never be silenced again.

Israeli women have a voice.
It’s time the world listens.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

Arab-Muslim empires redrew the Middle East long before modern activists cried “colonizer”—expanding by force, replacing local cultures, and transforming vast regions into the Arab-Islamic world. Calling Jews “colonizers” only works if you ignore the entire history of the region.

[Ciaran Cannon @ciarancannon]

I was dressed exactly like this when I was run over in Moycullen in broad daylight.

The factors that most strongly influence cyclist safety are driver speed, enforcement levels, road layout, and safe cycling infrastructure, not what we are wearing. A 🧵

[Brandon Donnelly @donnelly_b]

Building height does not necessarily equal density. This is one of the densest cities in Europe.

[Palm Oil Detectives #BoycottPalmOil @PalmOilDetect]

@Greenpeace report finds #seafood certified by #MSC 🐠 and #palmoil certified by #RSPO is “absolutely untrustworthy” in 2025. Resist the #ecocide and #greed. Adopt a #Vegan lifestyle and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife when you shop @palmoildetect https://t.co/vF5oysIG9p

[Marcus Grant @MarcusxGrant]

Unique in combining all aspects of spatial planning of neighbourhoods & towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for people’s health + global sustainability. This edition retains the combination of radicalism, evidence-base and pragmatism that made earlier editions so popular.'

[Marcus Grant @MarcusxGrant]

Sorry not to be with #ICUH25 folk. Noticed my publication Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability huge 25% off Xmas Black Friday.
Very *practical*, loads of evidence-base, conceptual tools and *case studies*@IS_UrbanHealth
https://t.co/aWILet0i7t

[Marcus Grant @MarcusxGrant]

@Boenau Love this!