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Auckland transport package doesn t add up, urbanists claim 13 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read RNZ There are fundamental flaws in the multi-billion dollar Auckland Transport Alignment Project 2021-31 package s emissions ambitions, and some of the claims made for it don t add up, say climate and transports groups. Urbanist advocacy group Greater Auckland promotes good city planning and says the project, known as ATAP, fails to meet the council s own emissions targets. Yesterday a $31 billion investment in the plan was announced for Auckland- Tāmaki Makaurau, with the aim to reduce emissions to help the city meet the challenges of climate change. ....
The Canadian Press Toronto developer Dream Unlimited Corp. has hired two urbanists previously affiliated with Sidewalk Labs to join its impact-investment division, which is ramping up with the purchase of two office buildings in the city’s west end this month. The company said impact investment in the property sector places an emphasis on green buildings and affordable and inclusive housing and offices, all while gaining local support and ensuring that the supply chain draws from diverse sources. Dream said Wednesday that Pino Di Mascio would become its head of strategy and delivery for the division. Mr. Di Mascio will leave his role as director of planning and delivery for Google sister company Sidewalk Labs, which spent two and a half years developing a plan to redevelop a portion of Toronto’s waterfront for a community to test new urban technologies and building methods. A former partner at the design and planning firm Urban Strategies, he was a key local Toront ....
Background myself, the left should be about upward mobility. that s not what the left is about anymore, it s about a very much a class society where there is relatively little opportunity, and you do that by regulating things like houses and creating artificial things. you don t think they re doing this deliberately? i think if you go and you dig deeply and ask greens and the urbanists what are the long-term agendas, no cars, no houses, we want people to live in small spaces. this is pretty conscience climate change has given them an application, but they ve been going for those things all along, and my researcher who is slovakian, her father went to school in the soviet union, translated and looked at material on what they call the communist city, and boy, it sounds like a planning documentation. steve: there is a theme later on where we talk about freedom of speech. we re going to get communism ....
Background myself, the left should be about upward mobility. that s not what the left is about anymore, it s about a very much a class society where there is relatively little opportunity, and you do that by regulating things like houses and creating artificial things. you don t think they re doing this deliberately? i think if you go and you dig deeply and ask greens and the urbanists what are the long-term agendas, no cars, no houses, we want people to live in small spaces. this is pretty conscience climate change has given them an application, but they ve been going for those things all along, and my researcher who is slovakian, her father went to school in the soviet union, translated and looked at material on what they call the communist city, and boy, it sounds like a planning documentation. steve: there is a theme later on where we talk about freedom of speech. we re going to get communism is going to come back again. ....
About anymore, it s about a very much a class society where there is relatively little opportunity, and you do that by regulating things like houses and creating artificial things. you don t think they re doing this deliberately? i think if you go and you dig deeply and ask greens and the urbanists what are the long-term agendas, no cars, no houses, we want people to live in small spaces. this is pretty conscience climate change has given them an application, but they ve been going for those things all along, and my researcher who is slovakian, her father went to school in the soviet union, translated and looked at material on what they call the communist city, and boy, it sounds like a planning documentation. steve: there is a theme later on where we talk about freedom of speech. we re going to get communism is going to come back again. we ll leave it there for now. ....