Petrol Price crisis......

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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Check out something called the 'heat island effect' - its a problem in outer Western Sydney and also Western suburbs in Melbourne like Tarneit where you have tons of houses jam packed in together, lots of concrete and no green spaces.

Even things like orientation of houses being wrong, then trying to fight nature with things like triple glazed windows, makes the house more expensive to build and then you spent a heap on heating and cooling.

This is Tarneit satellite view - notice hardly anyone has solar panels either on all these new houses:

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Funny how its always the West in both Melbourne and Sydney, no one cares about the reffos, cheap and nasty houses on tiny blocks for all our mechanical engineers working as Uber/courier drivers

Then because everyone uses more energy on heating and cooling their crappily designed and placed houses, we have 'energy shortages'

I live in the middle of nowhere out on the regional fringe of Melbourne, you can see the difference in planning laws/legislation taking effect, guess where the old part of town is and the new estates are in the below satellite photo:

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There's a problem and its on the legislation side.

Those places are worst than a big "cheek by gal" caravan parks, less than 2 foot apart, no front yards, little back yard. At least in a C.park you can move.

Just one big heat sink in Summer and tomorrows slums.

There is a good book called "Winning back the Cities" ihough it's more geared (sic) towards a local cycling future but looks at and has some good answers towards more livable cities with community living amongst green corridors and properly designed public transport hubs which actually connect with each other.