@supaluminal.bsky.social
I'd describe my interests as eclectic if it didn't make me seem like a tool. But if the shoe fits... Urbansim, politics, history, cycling, football, and many other unhealthy obsessions. Sydney YIMBY member: Build more homes! Sydney, NSW, Australia
Lots of roads in Sydney could go public + active transport only, but this has got to be in the top couple of candidates. Doubly so if looking outside the CBD
Great to see. They need to make Burwood Rd pedestrians and buses only. There's way way more people than cars, and the footpaths are made too narrow to squeeze in four lanes.
Me in @crikey.com.au today:
Albanese leveraged high profile young women to build his reputation as a leader who "got it". Now those same women tell me they feel the trust is gone, they've lost their patience and believe the PM's mask has slipped.
#auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/10/a...
Hey @bicyclensw.bsky.social - Maybe you can convince City of Sydney that as part of the work on Belmore Park, maybe they can separate bikes and peds on the path between Central & Castlereagh?
www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/proposed-works-maintenance/your-feedback-plans-renew-belmore-park-haymarket
PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”
It’s our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!
Of course it's high-end towers or sprawl. Local governments in inner city areas are doing their worst to make it impossible to build anything else.
Canada Bay knocked back an 8 storey apartment buildings because it had the wrong kind of garbage infrastructure!
Randwick council try to block student housing, (allegedly because it's crowding out apartments) but 1 street back from Anzac Pde, and you can't build taller than 3 storeys in a high-density residential zone. Same height restriction as the low-density across the street. The list goes on, it's madness
Of course it's high-end towers or sprawl. Local governments in inner city areas are doing their worst to make it impossible to build anything else.
Canada Bay knocked back an 8 storey apartment buildings because it had the wrong kind of garbage infrastructure!
1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published
1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series
1997 - BBC remake
2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added
2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap
2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next
This whole thread is a beautiful piece of performance art demonstrating the heart and mind of The Seppo
WATCH/LISTEN: This is an EXCEPTIONALLY good break-down (and highly entertaining conversation) of the history and insanity of the attacks on the “15-Minute City,” aka the simple idea of HAVING MORE THINGS NEARBY. By @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social.
Melbourne's planning reforms are nation-leading 💪
I think Contextualism in architecture or urban design can be beautiful, or terrible, depending on the political dynamic and/or climate impact you’re trying to either enshrine or disrupt.
Like its partner, Character, I don’t think it should be taken for granted as a universal good.
If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth
Makes me think of the people who oppose market-rate housing, saying "it has to be public housing".
Some people are so obsessed with the idea of public housing that they forget that the aim is to house people.
Build more housing, of all kinds. Big, small, public, private.
Last week, our lead organiser, Jonathan O'Brien, was on A Current Affair. He argued that we should not empower a loud minority to block new homes being built where people want to live.
“They turn humans into this hyperefficient terrestrial locomotor because they make being on land more like swimming.”
The most efficient traveller is you on a bike. #UrbanTruth
Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
⏲️ New episode out 🌆 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social are back with a bonus episode on 15-Minute Cities.
How did such a sensible and benign approach to urban planning give birth to a wild conspiracy theory about authoritarianism?
Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
As relevant to driving as housing
bsky.app/profile/caro...
Incredible stuff happening on Housing Bluesky.
Austroads have produced some great research and information on active transport.
It's a pity that Austroads member agencies seem to struggle to find them in the Austroads publication library...
Not only does reducing speed limits in urban environments make them more pleasant, it's economically beneficial too according to recent austroads research. austroads.gov.au/publications...
Walkable neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.
#UrbanTruth
Inner city councils keep finding ways to block housing. Heritage is the main weapon, but they use others too. The state government really needs to step in and slap this kind of behaviour down.
Minns & Scully like to talk big on housing, time to show councils they mean it
Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Last night Willoughby council decided to lock up more housing under heritage protection within 800m of a train and metro station.
Decisions like that across Sydney and Australia lead directly to the reality outlined in the SMH this morning.
www.smh.com.au/property/new...
Last week Sydney YIMBY was at Willoughby council speaking against a proposed new heritage conservation area.
This week, Mayor Tanya Taylor has moved a motion to look at how we can make it easier to develop in heritage conservation areas.
This passed after 45 mins of debate. A positive step!
Spotted in a submission objecting to a 16 storey building in Haymarket, Sydney.
One of the densest places in Australia, and we're supposed to worry about "increased foot traffic and anonymous movement"?
Copy, then paste special > transpose data?
I truly love the cycling infrastructure in the @cityofsydney.bsky.social