Pablo G. Landarte

Arquitecto graduado por la ETSAUN'15. Especialidad en Construction Project Management. MDI UPM'22.

[Pablo G. Landarte @pLandart]

@creepydotorg Alonso! 👏

[Isabel Díaz Ayuso @IdiazAyuso]

Me gusta la fruta.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Iván Espinosa de los Monteros @ivanedlm]

Vosotros sois muy jóvenes y no lo recordaréis, pero el domingo pasad hubo elecciones municipales y autonómicas, cuyo resultado disparó la convocatoria de elecciones generales anticipadas.

Las elecciones que ahora afrontamos son una enorme OPORTUNIDAD... pero no exenta de riesgo

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Photographer Mark Smith captured the stunning moment when an osprey emerges from the ocean clawed onto its prey, a barracuda

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[Adif @Adif_es]

📢 ¡Ya tenemos diseño! 'Chamartín Ecosistema abierto', de la UTE
Esteyco, UNStudio y b720 Arquitectura, proyecto preseleccionado para transformar #Chamartín en un hub referente de la nueva #movilidad sostenible, integrada y multimodal.

[El Confidencial @elconfidencial]

En portada | Los fondos ven cerca el final de las caídas y reducen liquidez para comprar bolsa https://t.co/lifP2Fl7qY

[Golden State Warriors @warriors]

Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

➡️ #APorLa14

[Kohan 🏛🏛🏛 @kohantoys]

METAVERSO Y ARQUITECTURA?
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Patrik Schumacher, director de Zaha Hadid Architects tira un par de puntas.
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"12 tesis sobre el Metaverso" por Patrick Schumacher.
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[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

🔥 AMBIENTAZO. 🔥
#UCL

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hopefully, it is now extremely obvious that Europe should restart dormant nuclear power stations and increase power output of existing ones.

This is *critical* to national and international security.

[#AusOpen @AustralianOpen]

It's a sixth #AusOpen final for @RafaelNadal 🙌

He outlasts Matteo Berrettini in a 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-3 thriller 👏

#AusOpen · #AO2022
🎥: @wwos · @espn · @eurosport · @wowowtennis

[Pablo G. Landarte @pLandart]

@Pgm2002 @GabrielRcBc Yo iba a decir lo mismo

[Isabel Díaz Ayuso @IdiazAyuso]

🔴 Mori Memorial Foundation, la fundación japonesa más importante de evaluación de ciudades globales, sitúa a Madrid como novena ciudad más atractiva tras la pandemia.

Además ha sido evaluada como la número 1 en calidad de vida y seguridad.

[Darío Madrid @Dario_Madrid_F]

Por más que el Gobierno de España no quiera recordarlo, en la madrugada del 6 al 7 de noviembre de 1936 comenzaron las matanzas de Paracuellos. Los asesinatos se prolongaron hasta el 4 de diciembre y fueron llevados a cabo por milicianos del PSOE, el PCE, la UGT y la CNT. (sigue)

[Kohan 🏛🏛🏛 @kohantoys]

ATENCION ARQUITECTOS, DISEÑADORES, ARTISTAS Y PUBLICO EN GENERAL

Aqui un mega hilo de herramientas, tutoriales y cositas utiles para el bolsillo de la dama y la cartera del caballero.

Iré pegando los hilos aqui abajo a medida que los redate (y los encuentre)

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[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

The top 10 best public transit systems in the world:

10. Hong Kong 🇭🇰
9. Tokyo 🇯🇵
8. Singapore 🇸🇬
7. New York 🇺🇸
6. Seoul 🇰🇷
5. Paris 🇫🇷
4. Madrid 🇪🇸
3. London 🇬🇧
2. Shanghai 🇨🇳
1. Berlin 🇩🇪

[Pablo G. Landarte @pLandart]

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[Operador Nuclear @OperadorNuclear]

LA SOLUCIÓN A LOS RESIDUOS RADIACTIVOS ☢️

Un mito muy extendido es que la gestión de los residuos radiactivos de alta actividad no tiene solución. En un HILO explico el consenso científico y tecnológico mundial.