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Australian urbanist in Melbourne. YIMBY. Our cities are not museums. Cargo bike parent of young kids.

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10 years old! Why are we so insane with safety messages to parents lol

15.05.2025 02:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please

15.05.2025 02:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

15.05.2025 02:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Imo trees make the biggest difference to street quality, not architecture

14.05.2025 01:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Watching some overpriced rentals in Melbourne and its nice to see that landlords still don't decide the price - the market does

13.05.2025 10:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sort of. It assumes you take the extra $45K a year and invest it.

12.05.2025 03:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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More high income people are promoting renting over buying, and I think this will be good for the politics of renters rights

11.05.2025 00:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It's happening: Melbourne is now a perfect city

08.05.2025 11:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

07.05.2025 00:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 26 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Now that Melbourne is a marginal seat do we get some perks? More infrastructure funding, cool parks, maybe a new pool?

05.05.2025 23:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Asked chatgpt "what is the optimal size of a city?" The answer was pretty good:

05.05.2025 01:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vaguely YIMBY/ pro-housing messages?

02.05.2025 03:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Less of: This apartment building was a great housing outcome, it is now our case study for the whole planning system.

More of: This international system got great housing outcomes. It is now the case study for the whole planning system.

01.05.2025 04:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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*.

01.05.2025 04:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At least have a voting site in Docklands. You would think there is a space there

29.04.2025 02:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why is there no early voting in the CBD?

29.04.2025 01:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Good that there is no "stop greedy developers" language from the Greens

28.04.2025 04:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Interesting style choice for this heritage house

27.04.2025 08:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Goki blocks, 18 pieces

Goki blocks, 18 pieces

$49.95 price tag

$49.95 price tag

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).

27.04.2025 03:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For every 'heritage car park' there are 10 'heritage warehouses'

23.04.2025 00:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This proposal honestly looks way too small for a renewal area

Link: www.northwestcitynews.com.au/no-clear-com...

23.04.2025 00:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pretty bold policy proposal

22.04.2025 10:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes a suburb of retired barristers who love to keep using their legal skills in VCAT cases

22.04.2025 01:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

22.04.2025 01:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Apartments are obviously more affordable than houses. Yet you still hear NIMBYs argue the opposite.

Link:
www.theage.com.au/property/new...

19.04.2025 08:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Her main cause was preventing government-led renewal but the process she found most useful to that goal was preventing all change via the historic protections. Noble goals, problematic outcomes.

14.04.2025 07:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

14.04.2025 06:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do your part.

Emergency submission workshop online this Wednesday night.

13.04.2025 22:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Book store on Lygon Street in Melbourne

Book store on Lygon Street in Melbourne

Tree-lined shopping streets are good. We should build a lot of new housing on/near these streets to make sure they stay alive.

13.04.2025 03:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

11.04.2025 08:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0