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🌌 Christchurch Takes Aerospace Collaboration to New Heights 🌍 The future of aerospace innovation is here, and Christchurch is proud to be part of it! The Space Cities Network (SCN), launched at the ICCA Congress in Abu Dhabi, unites Christchurch with Lausanne, Houston, and Seoul in a shared mission to drive global collaboration in aerospace and sustainable development. As Claire Hector-Taylor, Business Development Manager – International at ChristchurchNZ, highlights: "Christchurch has a burgeoning aerospace sector that is rapidly attracting international attention and has become one of the city's key economic clusters. The city is eager to grow this sector locally while leading in global aerospace collaboration, and we see the Network as a significant enabler of these objectives." #SpaceCitiesNetwork #Christchurch #AerospaceInnovation #GlobalCollaboration

Aerial View of the Eiffel Tower and Paris, France

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See you there! I'll be presenting our most recent work to implement pre-approved building programs, and I'll be teaching small-scale housing development nuts and bolts at the Strong Towns National Gathering happening the first half of the week with fellow faculty of the Incremental Development Alliance. Sometimes I get asked why I go to CNU every year. It's a simple answer: the collegiality. I go to lots of conferences and CNU stands out. Every presenter, organizer, and attendee is approachable. The conversations in the hallways and happy hours are gold, and I can always find a session where I learn something brand new. My all time favorite session was a report from psychologists. They equipped pedestrians and drivers with headgear to track eye movements and level of excitement/anxiety. They put those two things together to scientifically assess what components of our streets cause us happiness or stress. It was so validating and fascinating to finally see proof for the best practices urban designers work so hard to advocate. Who should go? Of course planners, but also engineers, electeds and appointeds, main street directors, etc. But, don't go if you think things are basically working the way they are. If that's you, you're gonna have a bad time. This is an organization with an obsession for continuous improvement and collegiate debate.

Aerial view of Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

What does #SharedPublicSpace mean to you? 🚲👨🦼🏃♀️ Respect for others 🌲🌼 More green space 🏫 Safer streets 👉 Learn more about the 2024 European #MobilityWeek theme from the Thematic Fact Sheets here: https://ow.ly/Qt3850SE71h For further inspiration, checkout these case studies https://ow.ly/8cZj50SE5r8 #EuropeanMobilityWeek #UrbanMobility EuropeanMobilityWeek

It's all about one-waying it 🚀 A couple of weeks ago my wife and I were sitting, anxiously on a flight to Edinburgh. We were moving there, with zero idea of where we were going to live, less than a week to figure it out — and no return ticket. Moving to Scotland had never been far from our conversations for the last few years. We'd always promised ourselves that if we were going to live in the UK for any length of time, no matter what, it would be in Scotland. It's hard to explain why. It's a feeling. Maybe it's because between us we've lived in seven different countries and have learned to trust that gut feeling when you find one that fits. So when a window opened up, we threw some stuff in a bag and took that one-way flight because getting a return would have given us a chance to back out. We hit the ground running, literally, and after an overwhelming amount of kindness from pretty much everyone we've met here and a lot of luck, we're now based in Edinburgh — and absolutely love it. A massive thank you to the people who have helped us out along the way and to Southwest England which had been our home for the last year or so. Friends, if anyone's passing through Edinburgh, give me a shout. I really mean it. I've already stumbled across some world-class running trails, epic coffee spots and bakeries to die for. Scotland is rapidly becoming what can only be described as a true end-to-end space nation. It's a country which builds homegrown satellites (at scale) and launch vehicles, will launch them from local spaceports and harnesses the data for a wealth of downstream applications. It's this integration of disciplines, logistical simplicity and collaborative spirit that makes Scotland an ideal test bed for emerging categories of space services. What is happening here is an inspiration and I'm grateful to be a little closer to the remarkable people driving it forward 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thank you for having us. #teamscotland #spaceindustry #ScotlandIsNow #spacescotland #scottishspacenetwork #thankyouforhavingus #branddesign #newspace #spaceeconomy

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