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Articles, Commentary, Observations
- All Study Trip to Europe & West Coast North America 2014-15
  
  Articles, Commentary, Observations
  
  Illegibility and the suburban campus park
  
  January 11, 2017
  
  Articles, Commentary, Observations
  
  Macquarie Park is lazy lazy urban/city planning
  
  January 11, 2017
  
  Articles, Commentary, Observations
  
  Reconceptualising Westconnex
  
  January 10, 2017
  
  Articles, Commentary, Observations
  
  Thought Note: Natural Progression, Push & Pull, Gravity – Urban make up.
  
  January 4, 2017
  
  Study Trip to Europe & West Coast North America 2014-15
  
  Trams and People Do Mix
  
  December 16, 2014
Plan Sydney
The News of Sydney
The Unprofessional Blog
Projects
- Project Skunkworks
  
  Upcoming Projects @Sydneyworks
  
  June 17, 2016
  
  Project Skunkworks
  
  Finding a Starting Point
  
  December 20, 2015
Links

9 months ago by sydneyworkz I’ve got the ABS SA1 shape file overlaid on my 14 Borough Map overlaid on Google Maps. Now, how to join it with ABS SA1 data and start doing stuff. #learningthebasicsofGIS
9 months ago by sydneyworkz Cooking up my latest system map for #SydneyAt8Million . A few niggles and line decisions to be made. I focus on capacity and reliability coupled to city-making opportunities. I don’t prioritise expansion of coverage. I prioritise expansion of capacity, reliability and frequency. Sydney’s network hasn’t had a significant expansion in capacity since the Eastern Suburbs tunnel opened in the 1970s - everything else has been fundamentally an expansion in *coverage*, not *capacity*. All those coverage expansions run into the same bottleneck at the city where there are only 4 track pathways available. That’s the problem with the Metro - we finally…
9 months ago by sydneyworkz Seattle is using transport as a tool to address disadvantage in their city. They acknowledge that transport - being able to reach employment, education, amenity and enjoyment - is a key to opportunity. My Crossrail plan, as well as giving Sydney’s Three Cities a backbone connection to each other, acknowledges this by example rerouting the South Line into its network giving one of Sydney’s relatively disadvantaged areas a fast and frequent connector to the drivers of the region’s economy. Most of Sydney’s current enormous infrastructure projects reinforce patterns of (dis)advantage and opportunity. #Crossrail4Sydney
10 months ago by sydneyworkz Of course it’s sold. #crazysydney
10 months ago by sydneyworkz Sydney’s double decker trains are some of the most comfortable urban trains I’ve been on. Criticised by consultants, they are utterly comfortable and surprisingly brilliant. I’ll give a more reasoned look at them later. #indefenceofsydneysdoubledeckertrainfleet
10 months ago by sydneyworkz I got an Uber so I got to take photos from the WD. Here’s one looking at the Three Sisters of Barangaroo.
10 months ago by sydneyworkz Urban environment. A bit of fun with the tilt shift feature too.
10 months ago by sydneyworkz Oh no apartmentageddon! Oh wait, details matter. Especially the details of the ground plane where us the humans walk about and experience our city. Yes, the shops at Ashfield predate the new apartments and they are a good precedent to replicate, but when you’re outside the shops, under their awnings, what apartments? I’ll say it again - details matter - especially the ground plane. #detailsmatter #groundplane4humans
$Feet and inches and fractions of miles is a muchhellip$
10 months ago by sydneyworkz Feet and inches (and fractions of miles) is a much better way to work in the urban environment. A dozen feet is a good width for an urban footpath btw. #imperialrules #ruleofthumb
10 months ago by sydneyworkz Walk up set of flats in Summer Hill - forecourt garden. Just beautiful. #precedential