Sydney has seen a rapid decline since hosting the Olympics, while Canberra has grown and expanded. The balance has shifted, and now Canberra is the best place in Australia when it comes to combining livability with vibrancy. #Sydney #Canberra #Liveability #UrbanGrowth #BestPlacesToLive #Australia #OlympicLegacy
#liveability
Sydney's growing population and car dependency
One "way in which Sydney differs from European cities is that it followed American cities and became a car city. We actually ripped out extensive networks of trams and favoured highways and freeways and we're now left with the legacy of toll roads. Implementing active transport was a challenge for a city like Sydney where the environment "is literally cemented in". >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-21/nsw-sydney-population-growth-suburb-2034/104131664
#Sydney #sprawl #cars #roads #traffic #liveability
More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing
Stories of great urban planning and urban experiences by Not Just Bikes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZwOAIect4
#sprawl #mobility #cars #roads #expansion #suburbia #TrafficCongestion #congestion #BraesssParadox #Suburbia #highway #HighwayUpgrades #MobilityDesign #LivableCity #liveability #ClimateExtremes #BiodiversityCrisis
The tyranny of automobility and sprawl
While the Bellingen /Gleniffer area is transitioning from an ‘idyllic tourist town’ into a ‘normal Aussie suburb’ (of Coffs Harbour), road congestion gets everyone stuck in traffic.
Car dependent motorists in their SUVs and bloated oversized trucks demand more and wider roads, larger car parking and a right to pothole-free roads for their 'sports utility vehicles’.
Extreme commuting for the necessaries of life are conducted in big private vehicles powered by fossil fuel. An aggregate of ugly big-box stores (large format retail, Coffs) with hostile giant car parks deliver what consumers desire. These consumption hubs are mostly inaccessible to pedestrians and can be dangerous ‘non-places’ (Marc Augé).
The mobility design of old school traffic engineers responds to the sprawling expansion with more of the same: more roads, wider roads and bypassing the last bypass. They call it ‘upgrades’.
As the latest $2.2 billion highway or forest road ‘upgrade/s’ are blasting their way through the landscape, they are silent about the ‘public bads’: the destroyed biodiversity habitat, the downgraded neighbourhoods, the violence and the polluted biosphere.
The ‘normality’ of automobility, or the 'car in the head' in petromodernity together with regulatory inertia make a transition to alternative land uses, energy systems, mobilities and ways of being a challenge.
#sprawl #suburbia #mobility #cars #roads #JevonsParadox #externalities #automobility #pollution #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #FossilFuels #Petromodernity #GlenifferRoad #CoffsHarbour #Bellingen #SettlerSociety #liveability
Ranking destinations is ridiculous and needs to stop, stat - by me for adventure.com
https://adventure.com/ranking-destinations-best-to-worst-outdated/
Also wrote about this here https://amyfallon.substack.com/p/who-gets-to-say-that-a-place-is-liveable
The Global Liveability Index 2023, from Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU), is available now. It ranks the cities that have the best and worst living conditions and quality of life around the world. EIU’s liveability index quantifies the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle and standard of living in 173 cities worldwide. The index measures cities on five broad indicators — stability, culture and environment, healthcare, education and infrastructure. The highest score a city can get is 100.
Bengaluru (Bangalore) secured 148th spot with a score of 58.7. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmadabad have slightly better scores.
I believe Bengaluru (Bangalore) has the competence and the bandwidth to rank much better. All that is required in political will. If somebody has lived in Bengaluru even for few weeks, the first obvious expectation for improvement will be better traffic management, roads, public transport and cleaner city with less pollution. Bengaluru has the highest traffic density of any major Indian city, with close to 12.5 million vehicles for a population of 11 million. This clearly shows that there is lot of scope to improve the efficiency of public transport system which will deter people from using personal vehicles.
#City #CityLife #CivicLife #StandardofLiving #Liveability #LiveabilityIndex #GlobalLiveabilityIndex #LiveabilityMetrics #LiveabilityScore #Bengaluru #Bangalore #MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India
cc: @mastodonindians@a.gup.pe @srijit@mas.to
The Global Liveability Index 2023, from Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU), is available now. It ranks the cities that have the best and worst living conditions and quality of life around the world. EIU’s liveability index quantifies the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle and standard of living in 173 cities worldwide. The index measures cities on five broad indicators — stability, culture and environment, healthcare, education and infrastructure. The highest score a city can get is 100.
Bengaluru (Bangalore) secured 148th spot with a score of 58.7. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmadabad have slightly better scores.
I believe Bengaluru (Bangalore) has the competence and the bandwidth to rank much better. All that is required in political will. If somebody has lived in Bengaluru even for few weeks, the first obvious expectation for improvement will be better traffic management, roads, public transport and cleaner city.
#City #CityLife #CivicLife #StandardofLiving #Liveability #LiveabilityIndex #GlobalLiveabilityIndex #LiveabilityMetrics #LiveabilityScore #Bengaluru #Bangalore #MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India
Graphic by Prajna Ghosh, ThePri…
@timrichards
Parallel parking often is the cause of holding up traffic and trams on #SydneyRoad in #Coburg and #Brunswick. There are thousands of car parks in off street car parking close to Sydney Rd. Victorian State Government is dragging its heels in removing parking, implementing protected bike lanes, accessible tram stops and enlarging footpath space for pedestrians, cafes, and street vegetation making a more liveable, enjoyable shopping environment..
#ActiveTransport #Liveability #accessibleTrams
I learned a lot about #mobility and #liveability in a #sustainability context from this recent paper by Rui & Othengrafen: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075709.
New newsletter alert for August! @TAPPCentre seed funded #prevention #research goes international with #cycling #liveability and #HealthyFood retail. We celebrate 20 years of the Prevention Research Collaboration (PRC) and the Prevention Centre’s work and networks in a #ValueOfPrevention social media blitz with @CroakeyNews. Read and subscribe to The Chronicle at https://bit.ly/44hEKtT
Just learned a great deal about the #liveability of #Montreal from this great video looking at all the #transportation and #mobility enhancements they've made, and how it is part of the culture.
Must visit soon!
https://talks.telraam.net/t/change-happens-slowly-and-incrementally-a-lesson-from-montreal/702
Bucharest just entered the Top 100, in terms of #Liveability for all #Cities in the World.
Congrats, 98 more to go!
What's your City? And its Ranking?
https://www.romania-insider.com/bucharest-rank-eiu-global-liveability-index-2023
On the noticeboard in Bellingen
Noise pollution from traffic on the main road is scaring tourist away.
Looks like other people have noticed the speeding traffic through #Bellingen. Compression breaking of heavy vehicles in #Hyde Street and surrounding area repels anyone.
#Liveability #Safety #Pollution #Speeding #Cars #Trucks #Traffic #Council #Tourism
Helping citizens and campaigners to make the most of their local traffic data.
A blog post on analysing Telraam #traffic #data and telling local #transportation and #liveability stories
https://telraam.net/en/blog/what-can-and-can-t-you-do-with-telraam-data
"Everybody knows if you build for cars, you get cars"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-12/what-will-it-take-to-go-car-free-in-canberra/102132572
#Liveability #Bellingen #Roads #Cars cars cars
#Seattle "This new pro-housing movement, defined by an unprecedented alliance between social justice activists, developers, environmentalists, labor advocates, and transit nerds, has chalked up a series of policy wins in recent years. And judging by Harrell's speech, he's trying to stall their momentum."
https://publicola.com/2023/02/28/maybe-metropolis-the-vibe-of-the-city-is-the-90s/ #UrbanPlanning #Zoning #Liveability
Group Mocksim are tasked with solving the problem of Paris’s number one eyesore, the Eifel Tower. 'Form-follows-function’ is crossed with an aesthetic most common in the outer zones of the capital of Europe’s, The ‘United’ Kingdom, namely PEBBLEDASH.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIYBXqsgmJ/
#architecture #homedesign #homebuild #homestyle #placemaking #towncentrefirst #15minutecities #healthycities #resilience #neighbourhoods #urbandesign #liveability #situationist #formfollowsfunction #finishthejob #eifel
Something for folx interested in #liveability, #policy, #wellbeing, #Australia, and / or #opendata and #openscience /#openaccess :)
#Bellingen has a #traffic jam problem. The 'CBD' ist stuffed. Shopping is a 'running the gauntlet' experience. No matter how much they will 'straighten the bends and widen country roads', there will be just more and more cars. Removing 'bends' from very steep and winding country roads is eliminating #biodiversity #habitat.
Where will all the cars go from the newly smashed in suburbs? (North Bank Road etc) Working hard to make it a #Nonplace.
From Places to Non-Places
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place
#BellingenShire #BellingenBranding #Pollution #Roads #Livability #TownPlanners #Nonplace #Climate #Liveability #EmbraceCountryPace
Image: Logging truck with forest habitat rushing through the narrow bottleneck of Bellingen CBD
Lessons from Vienna: a housing success story 100 years in the making.
As world cities suffer from crippling rent rises, the Austrian capital’s radical housing policy is inspirational.
It is a Vienna that most tourists don’t see. This contemporary version of Vienna is famous for its high quality of life and for consistently coming top of the Global Liveability Index.
https://www.ft.com/content/05719602-89c6-4bbc-9bbe-5842fd0c3693
#Austria #Vienna #Housing #Liveability #GlobalLiveabilityIndex
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