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The city to be developed on the doorstep of Sydney’s second airport at Badgery’s Creek will be named Bradfield in honour of the engineer who helped shape Sydney. Dubbed a new “hi-tech” city, the area spans more than 100ha and sits north of the existing suburb of Bringelly in western Sydney. NSW
Our planning system is a contemporary as the two-tone brown tracksuit I used rock on my paper round. (Don’t get me started on the defined term, Main Road.) Countless councils are pouring (wasting?) squillions of dollars into schemes to “activate” local centres like they’re David Copperfield. And office tenants are
The policy consensus promoting compact, centralised cities cannot be sustained in a world ravaged by Covid-19. The current pandemic is accelerating the move to dispersed urbanism. Beyond the direct impact of disrupted trade, travel, and consumption on the economic foundations of cities lies the cascading impact of changing work behaviours.
As a general rule of human civilization, we’ve lived where we work. More than 90 percent of Americans drive to work, and their average commute is about 27 minutes. This tether between home and office is the basis of urban economics. But remote work weakens it; in many cases, it
There is absolutely no way to avoid a great deal of pain coming to the commercial real estate market as companies dump or are planning to eliminate office space as the pandemic has changed the office’s role. HSBC Holdings Plc is the latest company that will reduce its “real estate
More than 100,000 new tech jobs have been created in the UK since the start of the pandemic, but growing momentum behind remote working could mean a ‘dramatic’ scaling back of office space and tech hubs. Article from Tech Republic here
Problems caused by a brief downturn in the economy can be fixed when the economy bounces back. But it’s tougher to fix problems that result from structural changes.The average vacancy rate at office buildings in Tokyo’s five central wards rose to 4.82% last month. That rate was at 1.53% one
As the pandemic changes how — and where — professionals work, some smaller cities and regions are offering hefty relocation incentives to attract remote workers to help jumpstart their local economies. WSJ met one family who accepted an offer to make a new home in the Ozarks. Photo: Craig Kauffman
One of the first comprehensive surveys of how COVID-19 is likely to change workplaces in south-east Queensland found that 88 per cent of CBD-based firms are considering changes in their workplaces, including relocating, shrinking the amount of floor space they occupy or reconfiguring offices. Nearly one in five commercial tenants
ABC Radio’s Steve Austin interviews the Suburban Alliance on how prospects for outer suburban regions like SEQ’s Moreton Bay (and the Mill project in particular) have been reshaped as a result of Covid. Interview starts at around 18m50s. Later in the program, Steve interviews the inimitable Bernard Salt on how
