The Burnhamocalypse (Odds and Ends #102)
Plus the Liz Truss 'jenga' lectern has been found! And more!
POD! On YIMBY Pod this week, we dig more into plans to use AI to speed up the planning system, speaking to Faculty AI’s Paul Maltby, who is working on the Augmented Planning Decisions programme. Plus – does Wychavon even exist?! Listen here, or wherever you get your pods!
ESSAY! Don’t forget to read my big piece on this week on ten years when I went viral for an incredibly silly reason. (I pressed send instead of schedule on it, so you might have to scroll a bit further in your inbox to find it!).
Hello! It’s time for Odds and Ends, your semi-regular round-up of the most interesting links I’ve seen this week, plus some shorter takes. This week is accidentally a bit of an Andy Burnham special, so I am writing this while wearing a bucket hat and listening to Sonic Boom Six, Manchester’s finest ska-punk band.
Anyway, please do read on as this week I’m featuring:
An interview with, er, me
A devastating takedown of Andy Burnham
...And the case for a more optimistic view of Burnham
How Ukraine has embraced open-ish data
A tool to find out what Burnham thinks about... anything
How the Swiss would have built HS2
And Liz Truss’s infamous ‘Jenga’ lectern has been found!
So let’s get started!
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