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#urbanplanning

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AJ Sadauskas

In case you're confused about why there's such strident opposition against the Allan government's plan for more housing density around major activity centres in Melbourne:

"Of the 50 recently announced activity centres, 60 per cent are located in the richest 10 per cent of the state’s local government areas, such as the suburbs of Brighton, Camberwell, Hampton, Hawthorn, Kew Junction, Malvern, Prahran, Glen Huntly and Sandringham.

"Asanka Epa, a Melbourne organiser from pro-housing advocacy group YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard), analysed Victoria’s scheme and found the activity centres are slated for areas that middle-class people had been locked out of, particularly in the inner east.
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"Epa’s analysis showed the most socially segregated local government area, the City of Boroondara in the inner east, hosted seven of the proposed activity centres.

"Boroondara is among the councils to have slammed the state government’s activity centre plan, and has said it had been sidelined from decision-making processes and feared the changes would forever change the heritage and character of its suburbs."

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/how-building-more-apartments-could-make-these-rich-melbourne-suburbs-more-inclusive-20250421-p5lt56.html

No, the wealthy folks in Brighton, Toorak, and Camberwell don't want ordinary folks living in their neighbourhoods.

Imagine people on regular incomes using their trams, attending their local schools, and walking to their local shops and cafés! Perish the thought!

They want the poors to live in car-dependent outer suburbs out Melton and Berwick way!

#vicpol #auspol #planning #UrbanPlanning #Melbourne #urbanism

The Age · How building more apartments could make these rich Melbourne suburbs more inclusiveBy Daniella White
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Cindy

@kim_harding

"An understudied movement among United States cities has demonstrated a strategy for greening freeways that remain in service: freeway cap parks, or decks with parks built in the air space directly above below-grade freeway sections that can help reintegrate communities, conceal traffic, reduce air pollution, and provide green space."

#urban#urbanplanning#AirPollution
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Mark Stosberg

For their new Safe Streets Plan to reach #VisionZero, @alexkgellis in Providence, RI used my "Walk Potential" metric to better understand pedestrian demand in their city so infrastructure investment can be prioritized where it's most effective.

I'm considering rewriting the Walk Potential software as a #QGIS plugin. Let me know if that would make it more accessible for you to try!

mark.stosberg.com/new-software

A map of Pedestrian demand. Text reads: In some parts of the city, daily destinations are easier to reach by foot merely due to their proximity. Replicating a methodology for computing a walk index based on local destinations, this map identifies places where, if sufficient infrastructure exists, people are more likely to be able to walk to where they need to go. An analysis such as this could be the basis for differentiating design standards for crosswalks and other pedestrian accommodations, such as Portland’s designation of Pedestrian Districts.
#mapping#urbanplanning
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Edenz India

Cities with lower economic density need stronger employment policies to drive growth.
Investing in infrastructure & innovation can bridge gaps between high- and low-density regions.
Targeted policy interventions can reduce urban inequalities. Sustainable urban planning based on economic density can foster balanced regional development.
#SDGs #UrbanEconomy #EconomicDensity #Sustainability #PolicyInnovation#GlobalDevelopment
#SDGPolicy#GlobalGovernance#SustainableDevelopment #UrbanPlanning

#SDGs #UrbanEconomy #EconomicDensity #Sustainability #PolicyInnovation#GlobalDevelopment #SDGPolicy#GlobalGovernance#SustainableDevelopment #UrbanPlanni
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@ckent @nickzoic @jessta That 3–5 storey range is a good happy medium. Especially if there's shops or cafés on the ground floor.

Having looked at apartments lately, it's amazing the difference that bigger room sizes, a wider living room, and a larger balcony can make.

I think there's also an underserved need for more 3 to 4 bedroom apartments.

And in terms of housing affordability, 4 bedrooms might make housing more affordable for people.

How?

Because many people — especially younger people — share an apartment.

So even if the apartment costs $1000 per week, if it's shared between four housemates, that works out to just $250 each per week.

#housing#urbanism#houses
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Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au

@tom_andraszek I think we've got a not dissimilar reference point.

For me, its Laisves alėja in Kaunas (in Lithuania).

There's two rows of trees down the middle.

There's park benches under many of those trees.

The generally accepted rule is that you cycle (or skateboard) in that area.

There's a wide pedestrian space either side.

The buildings on either side are around four storeys tall.

You have shops and cafés on the ground floor, with all fresco dining.

You have small offices (doctors, dentists) and apartments on the floors above.

The pedestrianised street runs the entire length of the Kaunas CBD.

It begins in the old town, near Kaunas Castle and the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris Rivers.

It runs around 1.6 kilometres east.

There are trolleybuses running parallel along the streets one block north and one block south.

It would be worthwhile for Australian urban planners to head out to Kaunas just to see this one street.

I guarantee they'd learn a lot about what a pedestrianised space should be.

There's two rows of trees, with the centre corridor typically used by cyclists.
There's a wide pedestrian footpath either side if the trees.
There's a wide pedestrian space either side of the trees in the middle. Buildings are typically around 3 to 4 storeys tall.
Cafés and small shops with outdoor dining line the sides of the street.
#walking#pedestrian#city
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Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au

Parramatta is set to get a revitalised arts complex, with the plan now open for public consultation.

From ArchitectureAU:

"The $188 million proposal for the redevelopment of Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres is currently on exhibition on the NSW government’s state significant applications portal, with the public invited to have their say on the designs.

"The revitalised building will feature a collection of performance spaces, including a new 1,500-seat Broadway-style Lyric Theatre replacing the building’s existing Lennox and Raffertys Theatres, a refurbished 760-seat Playhouse Theatre, a 341-seat Black Box Drama Theatre and a 116-seat Studio Cinema. A new bar and cafe is also situated on the river side of the proposed building."

architectureau.com/articles/de

The current building opened in 1988, and it's certainly showing its age.

Current venues in the complex include the 761-seat Riverside Theatre, the 213-seat Lennox Theatre, and the 88-seat Rafferty's Theatre.

So definitely a well-needed upgrade.

You can have your say on the project on the NSW Planning Portal here: planningportal.nsw.gov.au/majo

ArchitectureAuDesign for Parramatta Riverside Theatres on exhibitionThe refurbished theatre is envisioned as the centrepiece of Parramatta’s cultural precinct, intended to honour the city’s “rich cultural heritage” and create “a harmonious blend of past and present.”
#art#arts#parramatta
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Ben Fulton

Cincinnati Ditches the Status Quo with its Zoning Reform

"The plan modernizes zoning rules, particularly near major transit corridors and neighborhood business districts, allowing up to four housing units within a half-mile of seven key transit routes and a quarter-mile of 39 business districts. It also eliminates parking requirements along these corridors and reduces them in business districts"

strongtowns.org/journal/2025/3

Strong TownsCincinnati Ditches the Status Quo with its Zoning Reform"If we stick with the status quo, Cincinnati will be the next city that is completely unattainable to live in for working-class Americans."
#Cincinnati#UrbanPlanning
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Jonatan Hildén

A rewarding and interesting project: illustrations for Otso Kivekäs' book ”Kuinka rakennetaan vihreä kaupunki” – How to build a green city

The map is how much urban space the motorway intersection of Ring I and Lahdenväylä would take, if it were relocated in Sörnäinen, Helsinki.

The Sörnäinen area has a roughly corresponding amount of people travelling through daily.

The infographic illustration shows an idealized street cross-section.

#urbanplanning #infographics

otsokivekas.fi/vihrea-kaupunki

Big orange shape, roughly 1 km in both directions of the traffic area of the motorway intersection, plonked atop the densely built urban area of Sörnäinen, Helsinki. It would displace around 12,100 people and 1,300 workplaces. The traffic noise would in practice affect an even larger area.
Light and airy black and white line drawing of an generalized street intersection where the street includes one-way bike paths, driveway, wide sidewalks with trees and terrace, and a two-way separated tramway. Underneath a diagram showing the approximate theoretical ranges of numbers of people moving on these types of roads per hour. Sidewalk 10,000–20,000 Separated tramway: 2,000–10,000 Bike path: 2,000–4,000 Road(cars): 1,000–2,000
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Come On Giant Asteroid!

@dairpo @Dianora

OTOH, communities have identities & when politicians in Queen's Park or the AssNat force them together, you get results like the water tower thing.

There is a whole field of study concerning "optimal jurisdiction size". ON & QC have *some* OJS stuff figured out, but they usually go about it in a ham-handed way that repels the people that live in the affected places. Politicians are so dumb. :-)

#UrbanPlanning
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Anna Loffing

We know a lot about what would be needed to make mobility more sustainable. However, implementation in Germany has often failed because of legal hurdles.

Thanks to a change in transport law, local authorities now have considerably more opportunities to give health, climate, and the environment more weight in transport planning!

More on this paradigm shift (in German): doi.org/10.60683/xm2g-wf30

doi.orgAktuelle verkehrsrechtliche Entscheidungen | ARL-Net
#UrbanPlanning#Transportation#SustainableMobility
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Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au

@drtcombs.bsky.social Is the key factor really the amount of traffic as the article claims? Or is it the amount of time spent commuting, mixed with low-density suburban sprawl?

Imagine spending an hour or more getting ready in the morning, and an hour travelling into work, and then eight hours at work, and then another hour of unpaid overtime, and then another hour heading home.

I don't blame you after all that not wanting to spend an hour preparing and cooking dinner!

And if you're in a low-density suburb where most of the options are fast food, it's understandable if what you end up with is a Big Mac.

Especially if you're in a car, and a drive thru gets you home quicker.

I think the answer is to give more people the option to live closer to where they work, or to work from home more often.

And denser areas close to public transport tend to have a greater variety of meal options than the car-dependent outer suburbs.

So the answer isn't more roads. It's more quality housing, work, and transport alternatives.

#Urbanism#trains#train
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