Greg Vann

Classic desire line showing the path designers what they got wrong!

Brisbane has lots of local creeks with walkways along them and serene spots in among the surrounding development. Like this one at St John’s Wood in Ashgrove, where our email lived when I was young.

When they showed it on a plane:

Brisbane’s latest addition to its artistic life, the Glasshouse Theatre in the South Bank arts precinct, is complete and will have its official opening soon.

It’s quite a building.

And in today’s Daily Peanut, it’s clearly paw grooming day.

A bike ride is always a great start to the day!

The Daily Peanut: she is very happy to rest in the AC during heatwaves.

As I fly out of Melbourne on a day when the temperature will reach 45 degrees, I look over the new outer suburban housing and see mostly back roofs, and I think WHY?

Some Australian blue sky for you, Bluesky!

In today’s Daily Peanut, she is doing her Dobby the Elf from Harry Potter look.

Best suggestion I’ve seen is to take the US President to Alaska and get him to erect a flag and tell him Greenland is now owned by the US. That should do it.

Never waste a crisis!

Oh no, we could never close our city streets to car traffic. Oh wait…

In today’s Daily Peanut, she was mooching up to my granddaughter at my local cafe!

@travisbrookswho.bsky.social my least favourite is “I had no choice”. What I hear is “I didn’t like any of the other choices so I’m going to pretend someone else made me do it”.

New series:
The Daily Peanut.

Here is my dog Peanut plumb tuckered out after a morning mucking around.

It’s true. Life is better on a bike!

As a species, we love being near (and in!) water, as the book Blue Mind documents well.

Communities that make the most of their waterfronts thrive. Disused port areas become great people areas. Waterfront roads are tamed or turned back into people places.

What’s your city doing about this?

Can we get the myth busters to do a show about cycling myths?

From scourge to saviour: How the sun powered the grid through a heatwave For so long, the pounding sunshine of an Australian heatwave was the grid's biggest threat. It has now become its greatest asset.

As climate impacts accelerate, Australia experiences more & hotter heatwaves.

Recently solar (mainly roof top) generated an all time record so a feared power grid failure didn’t even get close.

Ironic that renewable energy saved the fossil fuel baseload system…

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Would love to see it banned. I voted with my virtual feet well over a year ago and deleted it from my phone etc. and I still call it Twitter…

We must completely change the way we build homes to stay below 2°C Construction generates between 10 and 20 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, but cities can slash their climate impact by designing buildings in a more efficient way

“We cannot go on developing cities as they have been growing, riddled with super-polluting ‘zombie buildings’”

How changing building construction methods and housing types can help reduce carbon emissions:

www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

Just read a post on LinkedIn from @danielfirth.bsky.social who is visiting Oslo. Apparently they call non-electric vehicles there “fossil cars”. Love it!

I do like a rainy day at the beach.

And the size of newer vehicles and what are essentially small trucks as the best selling vehicles in many countries, makes others less safe.

Meanwhile, in Düsseldorf:
(Images via IMM Designlab on FB)

Whoops that should have read 1980s

These images of Barcelona’s Meridiana Avenue in the 1990s and now make me feel Australian cities are often stuck in the past when it comes to road design…