By Natalie Rayment What would you be willing to trade-off to live in the city you want? Would you sacrifice affordability for more greenspace or better transport options…
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Plan Your Brisbane Intergenerational Forum with Marnie Wood A lack of understanding of current planning systems is leading to growing frustrations in our local communities. This was evident during the…
By Natalie Rayment Lazing by the river on a Sunday afternoon in a grassy park. The sun dances on the water. Yet another glorious Spring day in Brisbane. Other people…
By Natalie Rayment “We’re on a mission from God!” Elwood Blues proclaims in the 1980 classic film, “The Blues Brothers”. Their holy mission is to save the orphanage from being…
GoGet CEO, Tristan Sender, in front of Australia’s largest car share ‘pod’ at Central Park, Sydney. Image: GoGet
Cutting Back on Our Car Parking Addiction
By Natalie Rayment While cutting back on avolattes may help some people get into the housing market faster, real affordability gains can actually be made by cutting back on another…
By YIMBY Qld While Brisbane performed poorly in last year’s livability benchmarks, the “globally minded metropolis” is back on the list. Brisbane has ranked 23 on the highly regarded Monocle…
By Natalie Rayment You know acronyms have taken over the English language when the FBI releases a guide to its agents of the thousands of new acronyms and shortenings the…
By Natalie Rayment ‘First things first. Get the champagne,’ said Winston Churchill in 1931. It’s time to celebrate a win for good development outcomes in Brisbane. Earlier this week, the…
By Natalie Rayment Traffic congestion is one of the top three concerns that people have about population growth in South East Queensland*. During recent community consultation for the Draft City…
La Lira Theater Public Open Space, Girona, Spain by RCR Arquitectes. Image by Nathan Bishop on Flickr CC 2.0
Pritzker Win for Design Excellence
By Natalie Rayment Only two days ago, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta of RCR Arquitectes were awarded the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is generally known as the…
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By Natalie Rayment It’s the century of the city, a decade of densification in an urban millennium. In the space of a New York Minute, cities are growing up fast. …
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By Natalie Rayment You know your movement is gaining traction when the US President gets behind it. Media outlets following last month’s world first YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard)…
By Natalie Rayment “Our challenge was to create a vital public place at the district – urban scale, in other words, to address the issue of mega scale and invent…
By Natalie Rayment It is a continuously evolving precinct within 3kms of Brisbane’s CBD that used to be home to the commander of the Beagle (of Charles Darwin fame) and…
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