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James's avatar

I enjoy your writings Cameron and always enjoy your fresh views, particularly on super. In my view, there is one factor that I think you underrepresent/consider in your writings about property development and nimbyism, and that is beauty. Beauty matters. There is a reason millions of tourists go to central Paris, Rome etc. and not Woden or Logan. New builds, and those ugly apartments going up in South Brisbane have no regard for beauty. In my view, if there were a greater focus on beauty (and less on modernism) the force of Nimbys would be reduced. See Roger Scruton, Samuel Hughes, for instance.

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John Wake's avatar

Given the timing of his first piece on the subject, it may have been the height of the "deregulation is good" idea that had been building since Reagan was elected. It's funny how deregulation was a very conservative position from Reagan until the idea was discredited by the Great Recession, but now "Deregulate Zoning" is an uber liberal position. I suspect "outlaw zoning" really means, "We want cheaper housing!", and by some fluke it evolved into supply being the only villain.

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