We shaped #PositiveChange in 2020 by connecting people to services, employment and each other through 🚆 transit-oriented development.

We shaped #PositiveChange in 2020 by using placemaking and tactical urbanism to create cultural capital and build back better 📈 from COVID-19.

Humans........ worth it!

Sartre on anti-Semites: "They are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. ... They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert."

A reduction in urban canopy is impacting the liveability of our neighbourhoods & increasing urban heat islands, whereby urban cities are warmer than their rural counterparts. Clestia. & dan pearce share 5 ways to increase canopies Smart Property Investment smartpropertyinvestment.com.au/research/22061…

Former Brexit Party MEP on Brexit and fishing today - and how she responded when people pointed the impact on fishing in the past

Our Qld urban designer Catherine Simpson says there are many benefits to introducing urban farms-pockets of land where local residents grow vegetables & herbs-into Australian communities. They can increase food production visibility & improve health & wellbeing. #urbanfarms

Garbage collectors in Ankara open a library with books rescued from the trash. "The only regret the men have, is that they didn't start collecting sooner." goodnet.org/articles/turki…

Congratulations to Cedar Woods on winning the 2020 Environmental Excellence award for Bushmead. Our thanks go to category sponsor Strategen JBS&G, Awards for Excellence Platinum Sponsor Western Australian Planning Commission and Gold Sponsors Lavan and Stantec.

I've never understood why a multibillion $ road or rail proposal can be approved based on *forecast* traffic/passengers, but approval for a pedestrian crossing is based on *current* walking traffic. Of course there will be little walking traffic if there are no safe crossings...

NEW: No surprise, but good to see the additional evidence via new research — riding bikes is 10 times more important than driving electric cars per trip for decreasing GHG emissions over full life-cycles. Via ⁦The Conversation⁩ ⁦The Conversation U.S.⁩ theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten…

Terrific leadership from WA local governments, practical action councilmagazine.com.au/51-wa-councils…

Some images from my “Floating Land” series on the #YaganSquare Digital Art Tower.

We wish our clients and industry colleagues a joyful festive season and look forward to ongoing collaborations and exciting new ventures. Here’s to 2022!   🎄 Read our reflections on the year that was: mailchi.mp/hatch/heres-to…

We’ve only got one job left… #Perth has already ticked every other box to qualify as the Worlds Most #Liveable City … except culture. Number 1 standing is in our grasp!

Interesting commentary from Dave Walker on how we have normalised storing private cars on public land, and how people might feel about using the same spaces for other private purposes…

Traffic engineers who expect people to cross somewhere other than the shortest path between destinations are kidding themselves

In Perth, 'affordable housing' means absolutely no compromise on building footprint. It's the right for everyone, no matter their income or household size, to have 4 beds, double garage, theatre, activity, butlers kitchen. Modesty is almost never a part of the affordable equation

Seem like a good idea in theory designboom.com/design/polysty… via designboom

Thanks Röyksopp for spending 2,341 minutes with me in 2022. I couldn’t stop listening to If You Want Me. #SpotifyWrapped open.spotify.com/artist/5nPOO9i…