Australian planning director @Ethos_Urban. Co-author ShapingSEQ, Next Generation Planning. cohost @CitySpeakAust podcast. Been around for yonks!
Joined January 2009
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In case you didn’t know, @StephenYarwood and I have a podcast called @CitySpeakAust which is up to 19 episodes so far, covering features on particular cities & aspects of cities. We love cities and would like you to learn to love your city too! See here: open.spotify.com/show/6G8ztu…
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This is my final tweet. No longer support what this platform stands for.
I am now over on Blue Sky under my own name with the official address @gregvann.bsky.social
Would love as many of my 5k followers here to follow me there to access similar content I’ve posted here.
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The Advocate is bang on once again. instagram.com/p/C2ZDoqHL6AS/…
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Indeed. Advocating for safer biking and walking is, apparently, anti-car. Really, people?
It’s similar with housing: advocating for more diversity apparently means no one can live in a detached house anymore. 🤷🏼♂️
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Greg Vann retweeted
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My 18 year old daughter moved to Melbourne when she won a place at Unimelb. As an added bonus, rents were cheaper than Hobart, part time work paid better, and she didn't need a car. Cash strapped young people vote with their feet. We need larger supply of affordable housing here
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1/3. Gentrification:
The well off recolonising inner city areas shows the attractiveness of a lifestyle built on accessibility, mixed use & walkability. But makes that less accessible to less well off people. Cities operate better and more fairly if we find ways to address that.
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2/3 An obvious way to rebalance this is for government to move back into social & affordable housing in the inner city both directly as it did for decades before the 1980s, & indirectly as we’re seeing now via funding community housing providers and low interest loans.
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Great conversation and breakfast, thanks chaps. Sees planted for a big idea or two also. 😁
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When the US Surgeon General declared a loneliness epidemic late last year. Given the severity of the problems loneliness causes (see the first picture for its effects), the Surgeon General identified the obligation to take serious action, as per the second picture. HT @Fred_Kent
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Here’s another good example. Happy festive season! x.com/brenttoderian/status/1…
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