Making Better Places for People to Live, Work, Play and Learn. Living Adventurously 52

Daisy Narayanan is the director of Urbanism at Sustrans and is working on the central Edinburgh transformation project. Daisy is an architect, an urban designer, a cyclist, and a fan of books, food and music.

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• Director of Urbanism at Sustrans and working on the central Edinburgh transformation project
• Placemaking - making a better place for people to live, work, play and learn.
• Good city design should be intutive, and the city 'lead you' in a flow through the places you need to go
• Open Streets campaign - https://www.connectingedinburgh.com/open-streets/open-streets-1
• A parent should feel safe for their child to cross the street in a city
• Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on city design - https://www.citymetric.com/transport/mayor-anne-hidalgo-making-paris-more-friendly-cyclists-and-more-hostile-cars-4885
• 20-minute neighbourhood - all your amenities should be within a 20-minute walk. Therefore fewer cars needed. Builds a stronger sense of community too.
• Melbourne's 20-minute neighbourhoods - https://www.planmelbourne.vic.gov.au/current-projects/20-minute-neighbourhoods
• Dabbawallas - the world's best delivery system - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/dabbawalas-food-delivery-system-mumbai-india-lunchbox-work-lunch-tiffin-dabbas-a7859701.html
• Invisible Women: https://invisiblewomenbook.co.uk/
• Music: AR Rahman: http://www.arrahman.com/biography.aspx
• VS Naipaul - A Million Mutinies Now - https://www.amazon.co.uk/India-Mutinies-V-S-Naipaul/dp/0330519867/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
• Mumbai's extraordinary laundry system - https://theculturetrip.com/asia/india/articles/awash-with-color-a-visual-tour-of-mumbais-dhobi-ghat/
• I love cycling because it gets me places and I know what time I will arrive
• Bought an e-bike last year
• Calls herself a 'utility cyclist'
• As you grow up in India you become too cool for cycling
• In America cycling was only for recreation
• We need to make it easier to cycle and walk, and harder to make it drive
• There has been a great improvement in urban planning and sustainable planning in the UK
• I am a relentless optimist
• Cities that are designed for women are designed for everyone
• Vienna has consciously tried to design the city from a women's perspective - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/14/city-with-a-female-face-how-modern-vienna-was-shaped-by-women
• Men and women use cities in very different ways, making different journeys
• Lee Craigie is the Active Nation Commissioner - https://www.transport.gov.scot/active-travel/active-nation-commissioner/
• @leecraigie_ https://twitter.com/leecraigie_
• The first part of changing your lens for how you view something is to not take things for granted. Listen and ask 'why?'
• Safety is a big issue for getting more women cycling - well-lit cycle paths etc.
• Without action now the car will become the default socially-distanced means of transport
• In lockdown China went to a huge increase in car usership. Scotland is trying to encourage people to walk and cycle rather than a default setting of 'jump in the car'
• The high street has to be a place where people want to linger, not just pass through.
• Has a spreadsheet of books to read
• Leonard and Hungry Paul: https://bluemoosebooks.com/books/leonard-and-hungry-paul
• The extraordinary ordinary
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Tom Waits - "You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkpaKx1UUUw
• Cooking Daal - deceptively simple. Have to get the proportions just right, and add the 'tarka' at the end
• Daisy's recommended Daal recipe - https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/dal-makhani-recipe/
• Dishoom black daal - https://hotcooking.co.uk/recipes/dishoom-house-black-daal
• Couch to 5k - https://ww...