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    BTR can help create more sustainable cities says Harvey Male
    BTR can help create more sustainable cities says Harvey Male

    Build-to-rent (BTR) has gained significant momentum in Australia in recent months. Driven largely by overseas investment, proof of concept now exists across several Australian states, with a range of service models demonstrating commercial viability.


    Labor’s new National Urban Policy is welcome. But will it be transformative?
    Labor’s new National Urban Policy is welcome. But will it be transformative?

    In March 2021, then-Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese declared “cities policy has been one of the abiding passions of my time in public life”. He promised a new national urban policy framework if Labor was elected.


    Tone on Tuesday 212: The most sustainable homes
    Tone on Tuesday 212: The most sustainable homes

    At the end of last week’s ToT on the history of sustainability we arrived at our current dilemma: finding the ‘Goldilocks’ density.


    Design Notes: Ideas, issues and idiocies from the last fortnight
    Design Notes: Ideas, issues and idiocies from the last fortnight

    The Reserve Bank of Australia has to be the most malevolent of institutions.


    Why do so few people cycle for transport in Australia? 6 ideas on how to reap all the benefits of bikes
    Why do so few people cycle for transport in Australia? 6 ideas on how to reap all the benefits of bikes

    Less than 1% of the 12 million Australians who travelled to work on Census Day in 2021 rode a bicycle to get there.


    The housing crisis hits Queensland hard
    The housing crisis hits Queensland hard

    Post-COVID housing stress has been especially intense in Queensland. Brisbane property prices have climbed by 65% since the pandemic began. That’s almost double the Australian capital city average (34%).


    Replanting trees can help prevent devastating landslides like the one in PNG – but it’s not a silver bullet
    Replanting trees can help prevent devastating landslides like the one in PNG – but it’s not a silver bullet

    More than 2,000 people are now feared dead after a huge landslide buried a village in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Australia’s nearest neighbour. Rescue efforts are being stymied by the fact the land is still sliding and moving. The disaster has cut the main road into the mountainous region.


    Tone on Tuesday 211: A short history of sustainable houses
    Tone on Tuesday 211: A short history of sustainable houses

    The environmentally responsible home morphed over the last 80 years, from passive solar to alternatives to ‘passivhaus’ to inner-urban apartments. The changing focus, and names, is the story of sustainability itself.


    Jessica Kazenwadel on mapping the multi-residential market
    Jessica Kazenwadel on mapping the multi-residential market

    Beginning her career as an interior designer more than 10 years ago, Associate Jessica Kazenwadel (pictured) brings a varied and collaborative interest to the creative but logistical nature of the profession.


    After 15 years, Vivid Sydney’s future seems bright if it can balance spectacle with subtlety
    After 15 years, Vivid Sydney’s future seems bright if it can balance spectacle with subtlety

    It’s the year 2008, and some members of the International Association of Lighting Designers are gathered in a boardroom in North Sydney, myself included. My colleagues Mary-Anne Kyriakou (who would later be Vivid’s inaugural festival director) and Michael Day are sharing a vision of what’s almost unthinkable at the time.


    Commercial design: Balancing productivity, acoustics, and aesthetic appeal
    Commercial design: Balancing productivity, acoustics, and aesthetic appeal

    Whether it’s the offices we work in, the stores we shop at or even the cafe we frequent each week, commercial spaces are where we tend to spend most of our time, second only to our own home. The factors that make a space “commercial” are many and varied, meaning everything from workplaces to hotels, restaurants and even sporting venues can be considered commercial.


    The research shows what the rental market is really like for international students
    The research shows what the rental market is really like for international students

    International students have come under fire from both sides of federal politics in the past week.


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