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    Most #TownPlanners today pretend to value #walkable neighborhoods while vastly ignoring the above. They are mostly vassals to #cronyist #developers and #bigConstruction firms wanting to make a quick buck.

    See #ResorativeEnvironments for more.

    @bjb @kakure @RTP

  2. 2/2…By the 1970s sky-high #apartmentTowers and modernist concrete office buildings began popping up all over #Sydney.

    The developers were displacing hundreds of #KingsCross residents.

    Resident and protestor, #ArthurKing was also #abducted and threatened with murder.

    What real #protest looks like… (also archived)
    abc.net.au/news/2021-07-31/jua

    Gentrification and #townPlanners kill.

    #wendyBacon #squatter

  3. Funny how #townPlanners in #Australia keep pointing to #Europe as an example of #highDensity done right, and so they work on plans for 10-storey #highrise buildings. But many of these so-called "#planners" and #policyMakers are ***from*** Europe (#China to a lesser extent).

    If #gentrification is so great, why didn't they stay there?

    #paradox #plannersParadox #immigration #falsePlan #speculators #speculation #quickBuck #shortTermThinking #funny #hypocritical #Russian #Italian #Greek #British