Planning Minister Matthew Guy has just handed his mates a conservative $420 MILLION dollars. The 7000 hectare expansion of the Urban Growth Boundary is the equivalent to a golden pen tick, turning those who are lucky enough to own land in the right locations into millionaires. Urbis calculates that a $60,000 windfall is delivered to each re-zoned hectare near the … Read More
Sinking Thailand
Alex Stott I live in Bangkok, Thailand’s exciting, sweaty capital city. A fantastic urban mega jungle containing at least 12 million people, some of the best food in the world and sky scrapers as far as the eye can see. Construction is booming and everything is accelerating skywards and outwards. Office buildings, gigantic air conditioned shopping malls and high rise … Read More
Perennial Wisdom
Renegade Economists podcast 238 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed May 16, 2012 Listen to the interview See other past interviews. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast KF: Karl Fitzgerald AH: Alanna Hartzok KF: This week’s special guest on the Renegade Economists is Alanna Hartzok. Alanna is the author of “The Earth Belongs to Everyone” and many of you may well … Read More
The Commons Movement Moving Forward
In the end, we are all on the same side.
A Lazy City Layout
Frank de Jong from Earthsharing Canada discusses how the poor usage of land effects a city’s development, reflecting the struggle to understand the public and private benefits of our combined improvements. We had the great honour to tour Frank to Australia in 2007.