This is an exciting time but also one of reckoning, in so many ways.
But first the fun bits.
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Passion was the key theme of the week. Not unusual in this industry – as we all know it’s packed with people who would be bored doing anything else.
We saw it in spades at the Melbourne Transition Risk ...
Trauma Town, part 8: What I realised over time is that the heritage vibe in council isn’t just in the local environmental plans. If you wanted to understand what the socio-economic environment was in a particular place 20-30 years ago, go work in the local council because that’s the general time lag between the socio-economic reality of the broader ...
My family has been developing property for two generations, and I cannot remember a time when it was harder to make a mid-rise apartment project work in Melbourne.
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My first real encounter with a genuinely inclusive space happened at the State Library of Queensland. Coming from a Middle Eastern country, a concept like inclusive urbanism had always felt to me more like a slogan than something tangible.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
Letter to the editor: The Total Environment Centre recently congratulated the NSW state government and the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure on launching the new Blue Green Grid framework under the Sydney Plan.
For sustainability advocates such as the TEC, the framework meets a much needed call for a structural approach to managing ...
As more organisations prepare for mandatory climate reporting, your business needs to understand how to collect and share reliable emissions data.
To help address this critical issue, CitySwitch will host a two-part webinar series with Edge Impact to bring together industry experts to explain practical ways you can manage scope 3 data collection and ...
Why the housing shortfall has become a delivery problem, not only a planning one, and why offsite construction raises the stakes.
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Australia’s Housing Accord asks for 1.2 million new homes in ...
There are big positive shifts in both investment and consumer behaviour that give cause for optimism.
Whaddaya know – while the built environment has been bemoaning the lack of serious attention to its sector – amid its huge potential to reduce climate impact – it turns out that buildings have nabbed the lion’s share of available ...
USyd launches climate and nature transition plan
The University of Sydney has flagged its new climate change and nature loss plan to succeed its 2020 to 2025 sustainability strategy. Twelve key targets include a clear roadmap for the university to cut its emissions, restore nature, reduce waste and prepare its campus, operations and people “for a ...
What are the major motivations behind sustainability upgrades by investment house Ashe Morgan? Is it big partners such as Mitsubishi’s MEC, its multiple smaller private investors, or tenants?
And what happened when it removed gas from the food court at 60 Margaret Street as part of a major upgrade, including to the building’s energy ...
A 16-year-old NSW policy is constraining the local infrastructure funding available for new housing, even as the state asks councils to accommodate unprecedented growth.
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Under the National ...
In 2001, our book Back on Track – Rethinking Transport Policy Reform in Australia and New Zealand set out an agenda to prioritise rail in government funding. The book followed many government inquiries conducted in the 1990s, noting that in the 25 years to 1999 there had been an outlay of $43 billion dollars of federal funding to roads and only $1.2 ...
This is an exciting time but also one of reckoning, in so many ways.
But first the fun bits.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Passion was the key theme of the week. Not unusual in this industry – as we all know it’s packed with people who would be bored doing anything else.
We saw it in spades at the Melbourne Transition Risk ...
Trauma Town, part 8: What I realised over time is that the heritage vibe in council isn’t just in the local environmental plans. If you wanted to understand what the socio-economic environment was in a particular place 20-30 years ago, go work in the local council because that’s the general time lag between the socio-economic reality of the broader ...
My family has been developing property for two generations, and I cannot remember a time when it was harder to make a mid-rise apartment project work in Melbourne.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
For one of our current ...
My first real encounter with a genuinely inclusive space happened at the State Library of Queensland. Coming from a Middle Eastern country, a concept like inclusive urbanism had always felt to me more like a slogan than something tangible.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
Letter to the editor: The Total Environment Centre recently congratulated the NSW state government and the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure on launching the new Blue Green Grid framework under the Sydney Plan.
For sustainability advocates such as the TEC, the framework meets a much needed call for a structural approach to managing ...
As more organisations prepare for mandatory climate reporting, your business needs to understand how to collect and share reliable emissions data.
To help address this critical issue, CitySwitch will host a two-part webinar series with Edge Impact to bring together industry experts to explain practical ways you can manage scope 3 data collection and ...
Why the housing shortfall has become a delivery problem, not only a planning one, and why offsite construction raises the stakes.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Australia’s Housing Accord asks for 1.2 million new homes in ...
There are big positive shifts in both investment and consumer behaviour that give cause for optimism.
Whaddaya know – while the built environment has been bemoaning the lack of serious attention to its sector – amid its huge potential to reduce climate impact – it turns out that buildings have nabbed the lion’s share of available ...
USyd launches climate and nature transition plan
The University of Sydney has flagged its new climate change and nature loss plan to succeed its 2020 to 2025 sustainability strategy. Twelve key targets include a clear roadmap for the university to cut its emissions, restore nature, reduce waste and prepare its campus, operations and people “for a ...
What are the major motivations behind sustainability upgrades by investment house Ashe Morgan? Is it big partners such as Mitsubishi’s MEC, its multiple smaller private investors, or tenants?
And what happened when it removed gas from the food court at 60 Margaret Street as part of a major upgrade, including to the building’s energy ...
A 16-year-old NSW policy is constraining the local infrastructure funding available for new housing, even as the state asks councils to accommodate unprecedented growth.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Under the National ...
In 2001, our book Back on Track – Rethinking Transport Policy Reform in Australia and New Zealand set out an agenda to prioritise rail in government funding. The book followed many government inquiries conducted in the 1990s, noting that in the 25 years to 1999 there had been an outlay of $43 billion dollars of federal funding to roads and only $1.2 ...
