I get irrationally irritated by these 'teach kids to walk safely' initiatives. They should invest more in 'close the roads so kids can be safe walking to school' days.
Heritage: Why?
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Australian urbanist in Melbourne. YIMBY. Our cities are not museums. Cargo bike parent of young kids.
Imo trees make the biggest difference to street quality, not architecture
Watching some overpriced rentals in Melbourne and its nice to see that landlords still don't decide the price - the market does
More high income people are promoting renting over buying, and I think this will be good for the politics of renters rights
Does this offend you? Having a taller building next to a smaller building is condemned in our planning system, but I think it looks fine.
Now that Melbourne is a marginal seat do we get some perks? More infrastructure funding, cool parks, maybe a new pool?
Asked chatgpt "what is the optimal size of a city?" The answer was pretty good:
State/local planners seem to over-rely on lessons from excellent individual developments. They should instead take a lot more of their lessons from excellent planning *systems*.
Good that there is no "stop greedy developers" language from the Greens
Our walkable neighbourhood has a few high end toy stores my kids like to browse when we get coffee on the weekends. Useful to see the price of toys without China - 18 wooden blocks for $50 (made in Europe).
This proposal honestly looks way too small for a renewal area Link: www.northwestcitynews.com.au/no-clear-com...
So bizarre. The Melbourne Lord Mayor confesses his desire to leave Carlton and move to East Melbourne. Pandering to a suburb with only 2 per cent of the council's population. Link: www.innercitynews.com.au/east-melbour...
Apartments are obviously more affordable than houses. Yet you still hear NIMBYs argue the opposite. Link: www.theage.com.au/property/new...
Jane Jacobs altered the facade of her NYC house and removed the ground-floor shop before she advocated for historic protections for everyone else's house in the neighbourhood. From the book "Stuck": www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580...
Do your part. Emergency submission workshop online this Wednesday night.
YIMBY Melbourne@yimby.melbourne · last yr.🚨 BREAKING: Victoria's nation-leading housing reforms are at risk. An inquiry has been convened to build the support to KILL the reforms.
Tree-lined shopping streets are good. We should build a lot of new housing on/near these streets to make sure they stay alive.
The correct feelings to feel when a cute old house is destroyed... Sad: Cute old house destroyed by a fire. Meh: Cute old house destroyed to replace with a modern house. Excited: Cute house destroyed to make way for townhouses or apartments.
How do we get the infill housing we need while preventing displacement and helping Californians build generational wealth? By letting cash-poor homeowners partner with developers to build small condo buildings. This strategy worked in postwar Greece and it can work here if we get the policy right.
Greece offers a blueprint for ending California’s housing crisis
Post-war Greece was short about 3-4 million homes. The problem was solved within a generation using a homespun financial agreement called antiparochi.
sfchronicle.com
Weird that Australians might have better access to cool cheap stuff now compared to Americans
Oh good they have set up the next community consultation group in the FIVE YEAR LONG timeline to just get a PLANNING APPLICATION for affordable housing on a public car parking lot. This timeline does not include actually building the housing.
Haven't looked at buying a car myself for years but have been seeing more and more Chinese brands on the street. Are Chinese cars the best value cars in Australia now?
What's the correct cyclist etiquette on a shared bike/pedestrian path? I see a lot of cyclists ringing to get pedestrians to move, but that feels wrong to me? When I am on a bike, I always just go slowly behind people until I have room to pass.
Interesting how some areas are apparently still very high demand and low supply. Maybe we should allow more apartments there instead of just Box Hill and the CBD.
Landlords are very hateable, but as a renter I have to remind myself that I will only benefit if there are more landlords.
The engagement period for the Geelong Heritage Strategy has ended, and I'm sensing it may not be perfectly representative of the average Geelong resident
