Living near a tourist hotspot? This iconic Aussie destination has been revealed as one of the most unhealthy places to live.
A recent analysis suggests that paradise for visitors can come at a cost to long-term residents' health and wellbeing. The reasons might surprise you.
#Australia #AUSnews #RegionalAustralia #Tourism #Health #Wellbeing #Community #Liveability #PublicHealth
It gets worse. Most of these new builds come with dark roofs, soaking up more heat and driving up cooling costs. Combine that with the lack of trees and green space, and suburbs like Western Sydney are turning into ovens in summer. Profit has been prioritised over liveability.
#heat #urbanplanning #australia #climate #Sydney #liveability
Thank you for the #intel!
The decorative lampposts sound lovely, but yeah, not helpful for the problems of heat and #asphalt.
The thing is, that even in advance of #HeatDomes and serial #heatwaves neighbourhoods like mine are unwalkable in the summer from heat alone.
In the winter, the sloped sidewalk concrete that almost-seamlessly joins the asphalt roadway AND lack of routine snow clearance means that street parkers are often parked somewhat on the sidewalk itself.
This is particularly easy to do when the #snowpack on the road is higher than the sidewalk, which is most winters, even ones with relatively little snow.
This narrows the sidewalks to the point that even if cleared, they are not necessarily wide enough to use with #AssistiveDevices such as #rollators and #wheelchairs.
I really want #yegAccessible, year-round!
#yeg
#accessibility
#ClimateChange
#heat
#HeatIsland
#liveability
#survivability
Sydney has seen a rapid decline since hosting the Olympics, while Canberra has grown and expanded. The balance has shifted, and now Canberra is the best place in Australia when it comes to combining livability with vibrancy. #Sydney #Canberra #Liveability #UrbanGrowth #BestPlacesToLive #Australia #OlympicLegacy
Sydney's growing population and car dependency
One "way in which Sydney differs from European cities is that it followed American cities and became a car city. We actually ripped out extensive networks of trams and favoured highways and freeways and we're now left with the legacy of toll roads. Implementing active transport was a challenge for a city like Sydney where the environment "is literally cemented in". >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-21/nsw-sydney-population-growth-suburb-2034/104131664
#Sydney #sprawl #cars #roads #traffic #liveability
NSW will have nearly a million more people by 2034 and most of them will be living in Sydney, with no suburbs spared an increase. How the city copes with this uplift in population depends on its ability to use innovative housing and healthier transport, experts say.
The tyranny of automobility and sprawl
While the Bellingen /Gleniffer area is transitioning from an ‘idyllic tourist town’ into a ‘normal Aussie suburb’ (of Coffs Harbour), road congestion gets everyone stuck in traffic.
Car dependent motorists in their SUVs and bloated oversized trucks demand more and wider roads, larger car parking and a right to pothole-free roads for their 'sports utility vehicles’.
Extreme commuting for the necessaries of life are conducted in big private vehicles powered by fossil fuel. An aggregate of ugly big-box stores (large format retail, Coffs) with hostile giant car parks deliver what consumers desire. These consumption hubs are mostly inaccessible to pedestrians and can be dangerous ‘non-places’ (Marc Augé).
The mobility design of old school traffic engineers responds to the sprawling expansion with more of the same: more roads, wider roads and bypassing the last bypass. They call it ‘upgrades’.
As the latest $2.2 billion highway or forest road ‘upgrade/s’ are blasting their way through the landscape, they are silent about the ‘public bads’: the destroyed biodiversity habitat, the downgraded neighbourhoods, the violence and the polluted biosphere.
The ‘normality’ of automobility, or the 'car in the head' in petromodernity together with regulatory inertia make a transition to alternative land uses, energy systems, mobilities and ways of being a challenge.
#sprawl #suburbia #mobility #cars #roads #JevonsParadox #externalities #automobility #pollution #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #FossilFuels #Petromodernity #GlenifferRoad #CoffsHarbour #Bellingen #SettlerSociety #liveability
Ranking destinations is ridiculous and needs to stop, stat - by me for adventure.com
https://adventure.com/ranking-destinations-best-to-worst-outdated/
Also wrote about this here https://amyfallon.substack.com/p/who-gets-to-say-that-a-place-is-liveable
The Global Liveability Index 2023, from Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU), is available now. It ranks the cities that have the best and worst living conditions and quality of life around the world. EIU’s liveability index quantifies the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle and standard of living in 173 cities worldwide. The index measures cities on five broad indicators — stability, culture and environment, healthcare, education and infrastructure. The highest score a city can get is 100.
Bengaluru (Bangalore) secured 148th spot with a score of 58.7. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmadabad have slightly better scores.
I believe Bengaluru (Bangalore) has the competence and the bandwidth to rank much better. All that is required in political will. If somebody has lived in Bengaluru even for few weeks, the first obvious expectation for improvement will be better traffic management, roads, public transport and cleaner city.
#City #CityLife #CivicLife #StandardofLiving #Liveability #LiveabilityIndex #GlobalLiveabilityIndex #LiveabilityMetrics #LiveabilityScore #Bengaluru #Bangalore #MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India
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