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The marks of industry have forever changed the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, edged by the Blue Mountains to the south and ancient rainforests to the north. Coal has been mined here for more than 200 years, providing generations of people with good livelihoods and lives. But the end of coal in the Hunter does not spell the end of communities. Quite the opposite.
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Australians are bracing for a hot spring and summer. The Bureau of Meteorology has finally declared El Niño is underway, making warmer and drier conditions more likely for large parts of the country. And we’ve just watched the Northern Hemisphere swelter through their summer, making July 2023 Earth’s hottest month on record.
Stronger restrictions on Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms may help ease some housing affordability pressures.
This year’s heightened drumbeat of extreme weather shows us how little time we actually have to slash emissions.
The housing crisis is firmly on the Australian policy agenda. Governments see a rapid increase in supply as the main solution.
With global shifts reconfiguring architectural briefs and setting new expectations every day, designers have an immense responsibility to deliver on clients’ evolving aspirations and design for greater social impact.
Hardly a day passes without talk of “mum and dad” property investors. It’s media shorthand for a rental market dominated by small operators rather than big institutions.
“The future is not what it used to be: We were promised jetpacks and instead received e-bikes.” Jack Murphy in the Architect’s Newspaper reviews the MOMA exhibition Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the rise of Environmentalism, highlighted in Design Notes 180.
As Australia’s housing affordability crisis worsens, governments are spending more on housing.
Author Harry Saddler’s book on Melbourne’s Yarra River is an engaging account of his years exploring its native species and human communities. He acknowledges the river’s First Nations name of Birrarung, writing with a boyish enthusiasm. At times I felt his emotion jumping out of the pages, almost channelling David Attenborough’s passion for species and the environment.
With weekly transport costs exceeding $500 in some cities, a leading urban planning expert believes Australians are facing an ‘Affordable Living Crisis’ rather than a ‘Housing Affordability Crisis’.
Victoria has led the states and territories in setting out a detailed housing statement that it says will help tackle the state’s housing shortage.
