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It's dumb that our debates about cities are like
"should our cities just have single family housing or should there be be townhouses too?"
when the contest of ideas should be
"should our cities be solarpunk or cyberpunk?"
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The Scoot Foundation offers think tank expertise in urban planning, urban economics, & urban design which advocates for whatever its dark money donors demand
- What happens when you're not bothered about mixing uses: apartment Cafe in Ho Chi Minh City
- POV: you've "eliminated the need for physical rails"
00:20In Zhuzhou, China, the world's first railless tram operates on virtual tracks, eliminating the need for physical rails. This innovative streetcar can travel up to 70 km/h and carry as many as 500 passengers. - So with this bill, NZ has: - no more single family zoning - no more parking requirements - no more min. lot sizes - 3 stories everywhere - 6 stories near major transit & job centres This is one of the most significant housing bills passed anywhere in the English speaking worldIt's happened. Parliament just voted 110-10 to force councils to allow far more homes, far closer together stuff.co.nz/national/polit…
- it's insane how quickly NZ has: - abolished single family zoning - abolished parking requirements - abolished min lot sizes - legalised 3 stories everywhere - legalised 6 stories near major transit & job centres - legalised unlimited density within city cores
- Changing NZs name to Aotearoa is good in its own merits, but also being at the top of every alphabetical webform drop down list would save so much time
- It's crazy how obvious is it when you constrain moderate densities. LA harshly jumps from single family to high rise, while Shinjuku gently rises as you get closer to the city centre
- the ubiquitousness of better coffee in Australia/NZ relative to other countries just doesn't make sense to my brain. We're just not a fussy people? Why would we care so much about perfecting this one thing that is available literally everywhere? yet!
- density is starting to reduce auckland's overcrowding problem
Replying to @McgrevyRyanAuckland is back to 2013 levels of adults per dwelling
