The fact is that if you want to improve housing affordability across all of Sydney and NSW, then you need to be building new homes in all of Sydney and NSW - not just the urban fringes. Our plan to build up to 10,000 new homes in Woollahra helps to achieve exactly that.

Manhattan Beach has an excellent street network design that should be copied more often Residential streets alternate between car-free Walk Streets & service lanes for parking, trash, etc I would love to live on a Walk Street. Seems like an especially amazing place to be a kid!

Today we YIMBY Melbourne drop our new research note, demonstrating the bias of opt-in community consultation. It will shock no one who’s paying attention, but our sample of 15 consults across six councils found a massive overrepresentation of homeowners and older folk.

Thankfully, the City of Melbourne has preserved this site by blocking redevelopment and recently downzoning it. Melbourne's beautiful architecture must be preserved for future generations <3 <3

It is natural to assume that there is some ‘deep’ cultural explanation for the differences between Chinese and American apartment buildings. However, it actually comes down to zoning rules and building codes.

Before and after in Poznań

Whole lot of misinformation out there on the draft new Auckland housing plan. An attempt to dispel some myths here about the plan Auckland asked for and that Parliament has legislated to let them create. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/wh…

Controversial take: I’m all for adaptive reuse and restoration of buildings—when it makes sense. But in the US context we often miss the forest for the trees. When most of our inner cities are basically the suburbs – single family detached homes on ~7,000 SF lots – it is often

Davidson has only built 53 homes this century and now its public school is closing. This isn’t a coincidence, and we can’t keep leaving good infrastructure to rot because locals don’t want new housing.

Good! rnz.co.nz/news/business/…

Self driving vehicles don’t solve traffic but they do make walking and cycling significantly less dangerous

No, Australia does not need new cities. My new essay sets the record straight: we have a lot of cities, but we aren’t using them as well as we could be. To make our cities more successful, we have to open up a lot more land for commercial uses to enable agglomeration.

Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris, on the importance of mayoral leadership on great streets for walking, biking, and public transit: "Show courage. They all called me crazy…But at the end of all of it, now they want more."