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How Australian cities are made: planning beyond institutions
50+ min ago (194+ words) Perhaps nowhere is urban planning as deeply entangled with conflict as it is in Australia, largely because of the centrality of land and the rights attached to it. In this sense, it may not be an exaggeration to say that…...
Victoria’s new Premier should rethink the demolition of Melbourne’s public housing towers
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (497+ words) With less than 100 days until the state election, and with Labor behind in the polls, Victorian Premier Ben Carroll wants to set himself apart from his predecessors. He has delayed controversial work-from-home legislation championed by Jacinta Allan and called a…...
The unbearable weight of carbon in buildings
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (1408+ words) CARBON TRIGGERS: At beautiful Callan Park in Sydney’s inner west, the New South Wales’ parklands authority wants to demolish nine buildings. It’s allocated $4.8 million to do so. In a cute turn of PR-spin the proposed demolition is called an “investment…...
We’re building a New York-sized city every month. That’s worrying for our climate
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (622+ words) Each of us needs of a roof over our head, classrooms to learn in and offices or space to work from. To meet this unprecedented demand for new buildings, globally we’re constructing the equivalent of an entire New York City…...
On reasons to stop demolishing and stop building
1+ week, 4+ day ago (809+ words) When we start to chase ideas for our events it feels a bit like butterfly netting, or chasing a whisp of an idea that’s like a genie escaping its bottle. You want to see how it can form into a…...
The trashy ripple effects of the sparkling transport oriented developments
1+ week, 4+ day ago (615+ words) Behind the controversial transport oriented developments are the “same old” – no one thinks about waste until it’s too late, writes Frank Klostermann. The New South Wales government has an idea to help ease the housing crisis. It’s called transport oriented…...
Sydney’s ‘safe’ harbour – an antidote to the dangers of private transport
1+ week, 5+ day ago (369+ words) TRAUMA TOWN PART 5: Dad’s preferred transport was water. The family were bad drivers. His aunt was run over on the pedestrian crossing on Old South Head Road at Rose Bay. Every time we drove past the spot, Dad pointed that…...
Electric hospitals; cost rent models for housing; First Nations design; VPP untapped; HEMS for kids
1+ week, 6+ day ago (481+ words) More than 10 influential health organisations want the federal government to fund feasibility studies to electrify nine pilot hospitals across Australian states and territories. They’ve supported a new report, All-Electric Healthy Hospitals: a Cost-Benefit Analysis report, they say, finds that electrifying…...
How to make really big headlines – Andrew Bragg and David Chandler demonstrate
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1153+ words) Just when you thought it was safe to stick your head above the parapet there’s a small army of people doing the same. Well at least we hope there’s more support for David Chandler’s idea for how to ramp up…...
When the infrastructure bodies say, ‘hey we care about embodied carbon’, it turns out a lot of people have to care about embodied carbon
2+ week, 6+ day ago (336+ words) CARBON TRIGGERS: The conversation around embodied carbon and demolishing old buildings got more interesting, more complex and more immediate as we delved into the briefings. Thing is that now we know how to tackle operational emissions (more or less and…...