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Planning policies: circle not squared yet

By Robert Merkel on November 19, 2010

Urban planning is one of the more wicked problems facing state politicians. To caricature, politically powerful groups a) dislike urban sprawl, c) want to develop stuff for sale, d) want affordable housing, and most significantly, e) intensely oppose development anywhere [...]

Posted in Melbourne, State/Territory Elections, Transport, Victoria | Tagged planning | 23 Responses

All clear in McGurk inquiry

By Phil on November 20, 2009

As Imre Salusinszky noted a few days ago, the McGurk inquiry into planning decisions made for land in the Badgery’s Creek area of western Sydney has found that, ‘no NSW Labor politician or government official has acted corruptly.’ In handing [...]

Posted in Ethics, Law, NSW Government, Politics, Sydney | Tagged Kristina Keneally, mcgurk, nathan rees, new south wales, NSW, planning, Sylvia Hale | 3 Responses

NUMBYism

By Robert Merkel on July 30, 2009

The world’s first clean coal power station (discussed earlier here on LP) has been operating for a little while now. It’s working fine – except for one little problem. All the CO2 is still ending up in the atmosphere. As [...]

Posted in Activism, Climate change, Environment | Tagged carbon capture, carbon capture and storage, ccs, geosequestration, nimbyism, planning, schwarze pump, wind farms | 60 Responses

Planning straw men

By Robert Merkel on June 25, 2009

As a VFL/AFL footballer, he “boasted neither elegance nor athleticism, but Justin Madden was one of the most supremely effective ruckmen of recent times”. As a minister in the Bracks and Brumby Labor governments, he’s arguably made one of the [...]

Posted in Environment, Transport, Urbanism, Victoria | Tagged justin madden, melbourne 2030, planning, public transport | 26 Responses

Jørn Utzon passes

By Robert Merkel on November 30, 2008

ABC News reports that the architect of the Sydney Opera House died of a heart attack in his sleep at age 90. Whatever else he did in his long career – as usual, the Wikipedia has more – it’s almost [...]

Posted in Art, NSW Government, Sydney | Tagged architecture, joern utzon, planning, Sydney, sydney harbour, sydney opera house | 11 Responses

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