Town Planners are F****D
Added 2024-03-31 05:28:36 +0000 UTC[Early Access]
Hello Patrons,
After all these weeks you can hopefully expect our public return this week. Thank you all for your support during this time.
In our patreon polls you've all shown a lot of interest in cost of living and housing issues so we've got another video on that this week, this time the focus is on the Sydney YIMBY movement. We reckon you're all going to like it.
Catch you all soon and thanks for the support,
The FJ Crew
Comments
Why the hate on trains so much though
Kieran Fellowes
2024-04-13 19:47:56 +0000 UTCGreat video :) I wasn't aware of this Yimby propaganda. I definitely agree that the solutions lie in increasing property taxes etc, and giving developers a time limit to lease their properties. I worry about the effects increasing urban development would have on the construction industry -e.g. collapse of small businesses, increasing corruption and inaccessibility for first home builders.
Jade Manson
2024-04-11 11:18:38 +0000 UTCFun fact:- cyberpunk is based on Shibuya (Tokyo CBD)
Mosey the Pirate
2024-04-11 10:56:07 +0000 UTCArchitect here for 7 years and also work in planning for 3 years. Live in New Zealand, but have lived in Seoul and Germany. New Zealand is sprawled, like Australia. Germany has a very medium Density, rarely reaching 6 stories (Depending on the city) Seoul is crazy dense, but still an amazing place to live with lush green spaces, amazing transport and convenience parks etc... New Zealand is by far the most frustrating and difficult place to live, not only does car dependency colonise productive and useful space with roads, carparks and highways, its dirty, economically constraining, breaks up communities and has heavily correlated with obesity and poor mental wellbeing. balanced density with Walkable, bike friendly cities with access to good public transport are really the only realistic evidence based solution to improving the wellbeing of people, communities and sustainability in cities like Auckland and Sydney. There is a right way to go about providing density though, and i can't imagine many of these Australian developments are providing this. I would recommend looking at Nightingale housing, a developer in Victoria which is a not-for-profit development collective. its a good insight into what the potential is for this is Australia and NZ....in our dreams probably.
Sam moose
2024-04-05 02:14:47 +0000 UTCFormally trained but not practicing town planner here. I reckon many Australian planners fall into three camps; - Those who have shelved their morals to work for developers because money. - Those who work in government who want to see genuine planning reform to encourage a wider variety of housing in Australia, especially middle density mixed use (few of us want to mimic Hong Kong here). These planners are younger, energetic, positive, happy people. - Finally, experienced and down to earth government planners who are likely dead inside. They’ve resigned to the fact that the role of government planner is less about effecting change than it is about rubber stamping what developers want to build. RE Australian suburbia, sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, but low density housing isn’t economically, socially, environmentally, or spatially sustainable. Massive single land use apartment buildings (very common in Australia) are depressing as fk and aren’t the answer to our problems either. Both suburbia and single land use high density residential areas are relatively recent human inventions and should still be considered experimental. What Australia is missing is medium density mixed use urban areas. Places with townhouses maxing out at a human scale of 3 storeys. Townhouses with 3-4 bedrooms, big enough to comfortably raise a family, within walking distance to most of your daily destinations, including parks and corner stores. Places where few people need to use a car, so young kids can walk to school without fear of being killed. Places where 70-80% of all public space is not taken up by infrastructure designed for cars. That figure is not an exaggeration. Why did we stop building these urban areas? Primarily; cars. Mid last century, vehicle manufacturers lobbied hard to control the narrative around the negative externalities of mass motorisation. They convinced everyone that all the problems caused by cars were caused by anything but cars. The car dependent low density energy hungry urban environments we live in today are the result. I could go on for ages, but I’m sure I’ve lost most by now. Though if any of this is resonating, I recommend checking out Climate Town’s YouTube videos on the negative impacts of car parking minimums, and how car manufacturers hijacked the American Dream (relevant because like everything in Australia, our planning principles have been heavily influenced by the US for decades now. It’s not a coincidence that the “Australian dream” of the quarter acre block is basically the poor cousin of American dream of living in the suburbs). Then watch every video on the “Not Just Bikes” YouTube channel, starting with his Million Subscribers celebration.
Arex
2024-04-03 10:12:14 +0000 UTC
