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3 years

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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@ScootFoundation

3 years

What happens when you're not bothered about mixing uses: apartment Cafe in Ho Chi Minh City

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

You may not like, but this is the ideal urban form

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Have you folks ever seen the complete map of Tokyo's rail?

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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 world

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It's happened. Parliament just voted 110-10 to force councils to allow far more homes, far closer together

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

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

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@ScootFoundation

4 years

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

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3 years

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

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

There are so many streets in Auckland that need this treatment

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

This hits basically all my buttons ☑ Lot fully built out ☑ Narrow road ☑ Hanging plants ☑ Bollard

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@ScootFoundation

5 months

You may not like it but this is peak urban planning

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

In a city with 1.7 million people, the mayor has been elected with just 0.14m votes. Less than 10% of the population is not a serious mandate to do anything. We need to fundamentally rethink how we do and how we use local democracy.

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3 years

The lesson from Tokyo for Anglo cities: don't micromanage private land use, just focus on nailing your streets (the most core urban infrastructure), and good land use will follow.

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3 years

I don't know how, or when, I'm going to die. But I know it'll going through the Royal Oak Roundabout

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4 years

A lot of young white guys my age end up getting really into fascism or leninism and so forth so I'm really glad my online radicalisation just made me really want to build housing

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Love how you look at Tokyo and think, "yeah, they've got some big buildings, but most of it is low density" until you zoom in and realise all those 'low density' builds are like 5 to 10 storeys

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Jacinda's response to covid finally feels in line with her response to housing, climate, inequality, mental health, and every other crisis shes said a lot of nice things about

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Urban streetscapes typically thrive the most when they are the culmination of many peoples' vision for what the street and city should be, not just diktat of one designer. But our zoning rules only allow people to build when they amalgamate sites, to limit "externalities"!

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Here is a map of everywhere that is about to be upzoned to allow 3 story apartments and townhomes, thanks to today's bipartisan announcements!

Isla

@IslaStewart

3 years

NEW ZEALAND JUST ABOLISHED SINGLE FAMILY ZONING ON MOST SITES NATIONWIDE!!!

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3 years

Pedestrian-only mall in Seoul. Presumably all the small businesses are suffering etc

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2 years

"if we intensify, people will live in cramped conditions" No. If you build more floorspace, each person on average will have more floorspace to themselves. Its just if you don't build apartments, people overcrowd low intensity dwellings

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2 years

I love the energy of these guys. Tova dressed up for a Disney film, Jason in a bond suit and Henry looking like hes been on a weekend-long bender

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Another thing Japanese cities do better: Land use under elevated platforms

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Some people have a natural dislike of light rail because they think 'light' is like 'light beer'. In reality, it means it doesn't have to accomodate heavy freight vehicles, so it can accelerate faster, make tighter corners, and go up steeper slopes.

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Oh got some ground floor retail going on, too. The perfect street

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Rail maps of Auckland and Tokyo, both scoring 92.9/100 for 'Infrastructure'

1News

@1NewsNZ

3 years

Auckland ranked the world's most liveable city by The Economist

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Dominion Road is a caterpillar waiting for Light Rail to turn it into a beautiful butterfly

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2 years

kyoto timeline cleanse

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@ScootFoundation

6 months

this man is bringing raw, powerful, boomer energy to tackle the boomers

nzherald

@nzherald

6 months

Wayne Brown floats $5 per trip Auckland highway congestion charge

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

If Auckland is to adopt Singapore's climate, we must also adopt Singapore's high rises and urban metro

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

The wild thing about people opposing a carless Queen Street is that it doesn't connect anywhere to anywhere, it has fuck-all on-street parking, and zero off-street. Literally the only thing a car can do on Queen St is drive through it!

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@ScootFoundation

1 year

I'm pretty convinced that having a state-owned housing developer that makes up a significant portion of the residential sector is a superpower in the fight for upzoning -- and explains why NZ has had more success than eg California

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

There's no quick fix for a housing shortage that has built up over decades, but the government could allow 3 storey townhouses by-right everywhere in our cities, basically overnight. There's no reason not to.

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

"you don't need infrastructure improvements for trackless trams, just drop them on an existing road and you're good to go!" lol

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

really feels like the Labour caucus saw a couple of negative opinion polls about lockdown and decided to throw away everything we've worked towards for nearly 2 years

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

With Act looking like it'll probably slip below the 5% threshold, now is the time for Labour and Greens to build a metric fuck tonne of affordable housing in Epsom to throw Seymour out of Parliament for good

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

According to the cost benefit analysis, this will effectively produce a wealth transfer of ~$200,000,000,000 from existing landowners to renters and first time buyers over the next 20 years

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@ScootFoundation

1 year

it's wild that some dude in the 80s pulled an inflation target of 2% out of air entirely based on vibes, and now 40 years later we're going to crash the economy to meet it

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

The Kings and Queens at Kāinga Ora are turning this old house into 40 apartments (half 1 bedroom, half 2 bedroom) in Onehunga.

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

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4 years

please, greens membership, as a marginal green voter I'm begging you: I don't give a flying shit about this school, I just want trains, houses, and cleaner air

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

a surface car parking lot in Newmarket is set to become 84 apartments

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3 years

Berlin Apartment, cheaper than practically anything you could rent in NZ. The idea that we can't have this is made up to scare small children (millennials)

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@ScootFoundation

1 year

so we're definitely all rallying behind richard hills next time, yeah?

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

3 villas ➡ ~60 apartments next to the train station in Parnell, Auckland

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@ScootFoundation

1 year

Not enough is made about how much we destroyed to build "Spaghetti Junction" -- bowling entire walkable neighbourhoods (largely populated by working class folk) and paving over parks to build the least efficient transport system known to mankind

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

1 like = 1 urbanist take?

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

One home is about to become 32 homes with Ockham's latest development in Grey Lynn. This is what the Spatial Plan will bring to Wellington!

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

I'll be honest: all my urban policy wonkery, in the end, is just to make streets where I can eat copious amounts of delicious l food on cheap plastic furniture with 20 others as I watch the world go by

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

It's wild that we can apparently slice mountains in half for giant freeways but we can't make a single speedy train

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

there is absolutely no reason we can't build townhouses like this today

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

Corner stores will be what makes or breaks our three-storey townhouse future

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@ScootFoundation

9 months

In Avondale, a racecourse sits on 35ha of land, and pays Council $200k in rates each year. 400m away, a 117-unit Kiwibuild building sitting on 0.25Ha of land pays an aggregate of $250k. We have a tax system that rewards leeches and punishes progress. Land tax fixes this!

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

Driveways are some of the most comical examples of how we just don't do planning in NZ. With better coordination, we could be saving land, incrementally opening up the middle of deep blocks for development, and providing useful pedestrian cut-throughs

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

will never get over that Auckland essential lost an entire suburb to the central motorway junction

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Release the Luxon Cost-of-living Cookbook

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9 months

All infrastructure costs are made-up, but this number is extremely made-up

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@ScootFoundation

4 months

In 2024, we're doing MIXED USE That means new apartments are bringing more dairies, hairdressers, pharmacies, restaurants, bars, and supermarkets to the suburbs

YIMBYLAND

@YIMBYLAND

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What YIMBY/urbanist policies do you want to see passed in your city in 2024?

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@ScootFoundation

1 year

I have this absolutely deranged idea to Gold Coast-ify Auckland by building clusters of towers around a metro train line that runs along the Waitematā coast

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@ScootFoundation

1 year

every time there's major storm, West Auckland sinks. yet whenever we discuss housing, everyone else says "sorry, our pipes can't handle it" and housing gets pushed to... West Auckland.

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Thinking about her

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@ScootFoundation

1 year

There's an alt. timeline when it becomes apparent that this is more than a regular storm (circa 3-4pm), the Mayor goes on the radio & urges out of caution that all businesses that can to close early and send their staff home, don't go to the concert, avoid the floodwater, etc

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

2 houses 👉 27 homes in Papatoetoe

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

You can buy a decent ebike for less than a single years worth of bus fares. You can buy a decent e-scooter for less than a single years worth of car insurance. micro-mobility is by far the cheapest form of motorised transport, just bizarre to cast it as for rich people

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@ScootFoundation

11 months

nothing more classic in housing debates than condemning both yimby + nimby, while pretending to be an unspecified third thing, but rolling out all the normal nimby talking points

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

Paris Métro superimposed upon Central Auckland. This is what density can buy us!

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@ScootFoundation

4 years

to solve the illegal immigrant problem i would simply make all immigration legal

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@ScootFoundation

4 years

lotta people are going to find out that they're number 11 in their friend group next week

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

For some reason, in NZ we have made it the primary purpose of Local Governments to stop streets like this from emerging

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1 small mansion becomes 5 townhouses in Mt Eden

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The Uffendel thing was so straight-forward. Feels like you need a PhD to understand what's going on with the Gaurav character

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@ScootFoundation

4 years

I'm being told that 4 year terms are "undemocratic" so I've produced a truly democratic system: 0 year terms. You can go change your vote at vote at any time. Seats are changing in real time. All politicians live in true fear of The Worm

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@ScootFoundation

4 years

If I was a prominent National Party person I would simply not commit crimes

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@ScootFoundation

3 months

I've always said that the best thing to do when lots of people want to use your ferries is run fewer ferries

Auckland Transport Travel Alerts

@AT_TravelAlerts

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Due to high demand and delays, the following Devonport Ferry services will be cancelled: Auckland to Devonport 18:30 Devonport to Auckland 18:45

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@ScootFoundation

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Ockham are slowly teasing out their new development - which will span the entire length of a block on Great North Road

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

what can be accomplished when you remove minimum car parking requirements? 10 carparks ➡ 12 homes!

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5 townhouses replaces a house in Northcote

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"eco houses" in the middle of nowhere

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What's something that IS climate denial, but still FEELS like it isn't climate denial?

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

When hospitality begins to reopen in Auckland, allowing "streeteries" to take over carparks will help businesses meet socially distanced capacity limits. But in the city centre, where businesses have been hit the hardest, we need street closures to give restaurants a hand up 👇

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

The year is 2020. Kiwirail are ripping up the entire network to build new tracks. The year is 2023. Kiwirail are ripping up the entire network to build new track bed and tracks. The year is 2025-

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@ScootFoundation

3 years

This is a typical local government meeting. These are the people driving decision making. Any solution to the housing crisis which doesn't involve shifting decision making away from crowds like this will not work.

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@ScootFoundation

6 months

How come Asian supermarkets never come up in the conversation around challenging the duopoly

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@ScootFoundation

1 year

Chorus using a drone to re-connect fibre after a bridge washed away

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what's stopping your city looking like this?

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@ScootFoundation

2 years

*one third* of people agreeing that their area is racist is vastly more noteworthy than half saying it isn't

Newshub Nation

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2 years

Most Tauranga locals disagree with Te Pāti Māori claim their city is racist - Newshub Nation-Reid Research poll #nationnz

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@ScootFoundation

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Grafton Station is probably one of the most underrated improvements of 21st century Auckland PT -- although relatively basic, it has: - access on either end of the platform - lift access - schools and hospitals nearby - bus transfers on the doorstep and it cost only $3 mil!

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@ScootFoundation

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The wrapping is off and Kainga Ora's Greys Ave apartments look fantastic

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Isla

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@StuartBDonovan @ScootFoundation feel like pure shit, just want a big nz

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@ScootFoundation

3 months

this is Cameron Murray's entire anti-YIMBY shtick

Matthew Maltman

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Cameron has shared this chart a few times now. It's inaccurate in 3 ways. Here's what an accurate comparison of Auckland and Wellington City looks like. A short thread:

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the idea that the appropriate response to a housing shortage is more roads - rather than more townhouses and apartments - is only suitable if your solution is more people living in cars

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