@GregVann

Australian planning director @Ethos_Urban. Co-author ShapingSEQ, Next Generation Planning. cohost @CitySpeakAust podcast. Been around for yonks!

 Brisbane Australia
ethosurban.com
Joined January 2009
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In case you didn’t know, @StephenYarwood and I have a podcast called @CitySpeakAust which is up to 19 episodes so far, covering features on particular cities & aspects of cities. We love cities and would like you to learn to love your city too! See here: open.spotify.com/show/6G8ztu…
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This is my final tweet. No longer support what this platform stands for. I am now over on Blue Sky under my own name with the official address @gregvann.bsky.social Would love as many of my 5k+ followers here to follow me there to access similar content I’ve posted here.
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Visited one of Brisbane’s latest new buildings downtown. Created some interesting spaces at the ground level and a new mid block pedestrian link called Heritage Lane
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Just caught up with this area under an overpass in Brisbane city centre. Used to be a few car parking spaces, now a multipurpose sport court and people space.
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Well @Qantas is copping lots of stick lately and I understand why, but my Brisbane to Hobart flight is landing 15 minutes early and I got upgraded to business. So they get a thumbs up from me for today.
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And a follow up for the return flight from Hobart, which for convenience of timing, I’m doing via Melbourne. Took off early from Hobart, and looks likely to happen now from Melbourne too.
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The Advocate is bang on once again. instagram.com/p/C2ZDoqHL6AS/…
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Tasmania does nature pretty well. 😁👏
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Indeed. Advocating for safer biking and walking is, apparently, anti-car. Really, people? It’s similar with housing: advocating for more diversity apparently means no one can live in a detached house anymore. 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Replying to @Ryan_Posselt
My 18 year old daughter moved to Melbourne when she won a place at Unimelb. As an added bonus, rents were cheaper than Hobart, part time work paid better, and she didn't need a car. Cash strapped young people vote with their feet. We need larger supply of affordable housing here
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1/3. Gentrification: The well off recolonising inner city areas shows the attractiveness of a lifestyle built on accessibility, mixed use & walkability. But makes that less accessible to less well off people. Cities operate better and more fairly if we find ways to address that.
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2/3 An obvious way to rebalance this is for government to move back into social & affordable housing in the inner city both directly as it did for decades before the 1980s, & indirectly as we’re seeing now via funding community housing providers and low interest loans.
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3/3 the other main strategy is to remove the dominance of “single family housing” zones, as is happening in jurisdictions across North America & New Zealand. In NZ it has significantly rebalanced housing costs via well Located additional supply.
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If you care about a better, fairer, more productive and sustainable future for Brisbane, get on board!
Greater Brisbane 🏗️@greaterbne12 Jan 2024
Hello! We're Greater Brisbane and we're an all-volunteer grassroots urbanism collective trying to build a better city for everyone. We want a Brisbane where everyone is welcome and has the opportunity to live a good life wherever they want.
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First time in long pants for a few weeks. Back into the office after a great, but very hot and muggy, holiday break.
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Great conversation and breakfast, thanks chaps. Sees planted for a big idea or two also. 😁
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When the US Surgeon General declared a loneliness epidemic late last year. Given the severity of the problems loneliness causes (see the first picture for its effects), the Surgeon General identified the obligation to take serious action, as per the second picture. HT @Fred_Kent
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Okay Twitter, let’s have a Christmas celebration of city transformations that repaired the damage of post war car fever. Here’s a starter one: Utrecht in the Netherlands.
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And here is Lancaster, California:
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Here’s another good example. Happy festive season! xitter.cf/brenttoderian/status/1…
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Right, Twitter. After a hiatus where I seriously contemplated abandoning this forum just cos Elon, I might give it another chance. I now anoint this occasion as long shirt day. Get on board.
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