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Michael Smith
@red-black-archi.bsky.social
Architect, advocate for better designed cities.
Melbourne / Naarm, Australia
Secondly anyone talking policy and politics needs to have a mental model of what big money looks like.
Without this grip of numbers, we end up with media uproar over $1.50 wasted and crickets at billions spent wastefully
March 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
They also need to be rewritten and republished with a design and layout that doesn’t look like it was prepared on a typewriter
February 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The AS system needs to go.
Either Federal Government needs to compulsory acquire them to make them free for everyone, or they need to build a new publicly available set that becomes the referenced standards.
The system is currently not fit for purpose.
February 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Have been loving the Maria Larkins book! The frank but well written letters between the directors are fascinating.
January 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Say hi for me!
January 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Very sad on all levels.
Fingers crossed for Eames
January 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Yep
January 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Happy New Year to you too Laura!
December 31, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Reposted by Michael Smith
And if you are going to have a city dominated by traffic & glass wall towers with inadequate openings, your population is going to suffer even more.
If there’s a power failure during extreme heat, those towers risk being death traps…
December 20, 2024 at 6:03 AM
The media chose the winner as either Reece or Wood and gave them the lion share of coverage.

If they chose The Greens and Team Hakim instead, maybe we might have transparent and ethical leadership at Council.
December 14, 2024 at 3:23 AM