kurtlabu

Big on bettering Brisbane, big on bicycles

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@FrancoStrong @awealthofcs

[Jonathan O'Brien @jonobri]

When people classify high rise as “four stories or more”, they are telling you something important.

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@yorgonson @peter_tulip @ItsDoonby interesting that you've pointed out how we give private vehicles more occupancy permission than residences. Maybe we should let more people make their choice of tradeoff.

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@TheWealthGuy_ @SHamiltonian @FinancialReview human movement is a constant through the rise and fall of cities and nations. Stopping it is focusing on the wrong thing. Cities and nations (have and will continue to) solve it by evolving to accept the gains.

[Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbne]

A Greater Brisbane? In this economy?
Join us tonight 6pm, at Isles Lane in Post Office Square for a snack, chat and social, all welcome.

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@cdilga @peter_tulip https://t.co/mY5IhmJjPx join us 🏗️

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

Important to remember - we need to change the underlying planning scheme that makes this new housing impact assessable to begin with. Why are these bland complaints given influence over some of the most amenity rich areas of the inner city?

[Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbne]

A handful of km from the city.

Generally out of the flood zone.

It's even the home of Torbreck!

You could not name a better suburb for apartments.

https://t.co/ypqROAtNjt

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@TMFScottP (1) why shouldn't people be able to pursue a better life?
(2) why shouldn't they be able to do (1) in Australian cities?

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis on why we need to read old books

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@StuartBDonovan @MarkBaileyMP @JPLangbroek If we cut around the Oxley Creek and Brisbane river flood prone areas, the entire Miller electorate is well serviced and prime for upzoning. Ticks all the necessary requirements, maximum amenity & infra in an area where people want to live. LFG

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

Before and after satellite images showing the catastrophic flooding happening in Valencia, Spain

[Ken McLeod 🚴🚵🏃🚲 @Kenmcld]

"In cities, there are enough cameras in some zones that many drivers give up trying to game the system. When enough drivers default to the limit, even those willing to take ticket risk tend to slow. Over time new habits form and the old speeds may feel too fast."

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

One thing I think of with this constant requirement to have low density forever is that few people have the housing options their parents did. Increasingly, people don't have housing options because some people continue to make biased assumptions on what other people want.

[Cameron Kusher @cmkusher]

One thing I think of with all this push for density is that few people in the future will live in better housing than their parents did. To be sure this is already happening but increasingly people won’t even have the choice to live in a house it will be a unit. 1/

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@BenPhillips_ANU @JoelDignam wouldn't real rents going down, not staying flat be a better thing?

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@big_shaneoh @TMFScottP cowardly take for a crypto trading enthusiast.

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@TMFScottP @oz_farmer welcome to the campaign to upzone.

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@Gergyl @SustPopAus @BneResidents rational discourse.

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

The great thing is we could have private and public developers build this if we had better city planning

[Max Chandler-Mather @MChandlerMather]

Check this out.

Under the Greens, a government owned developer would build this beautiful set of apartments to be rented and sold for cheap.

This 13 storey, 65 apartment development, would be part of the 610,000 homes built by the developer.

[kurtlabu @kurtlabu]

@QualtyntQuantty @pwafork @peter_tulip denying people the pursuit of a better life is a fairly extreme proposal. Australia's urban density ranks among the lowest on the planet. I hope there's some pragmatic humanists out there.