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Author Archives: Mike Brown

Originally from Adelaide, Mike Brown has worked in NSW local and state government in planning, urban design, and strategic roles for 15 years. He is also a graduate of the Masters of Urban Policy and Strategy program at the University of NSW.

Posted inSpinifex

We need yet more land – or some good solutions

by Mike Brown 14 November 202315 November 2023
Posted inSpinifex

The search for more land can be a lot more creative than trawling government property registers

by Mike Brown 25 September 202326 September 2023
Posted inHousing

Unaffordable housing – it’s the politics, stupid!

by Mike Brown 24 July 202326 July 2023
Posted inSpinifex

Affordable housing Part 2: Affordable housing and the national interest

by Mike Brown 28 March 202328 March 2023
Posted inHousing

Affordable housing series part 1: tensions and political legitimacy

by Mike Brown 20 March 202321 March 2023
Beautiful purple flower Jacaranda tree lined street in full bloom. Taken in Allinga Street, Glenside, Adelaide, South Australia.
Posted inHousing

If ever there was a significant pivotal moment for urban policy, that time is right now

by Mike Brown 2 March 20238 March 2023
Posted inHousing

Unaffordable housing and the significance of land

by Mike Brown 14 February 202315 February 2023
Posted inSpinifex

Unaffordable housing: lying and the looming NSW election, part 2

by Mike Brown 9 February 202315 February 2023
white housing block, multiple buildings surrounded by dark brown apartment buildings
Posted inHousing

It’s time for policy action on housing

by Mike Brown 24 January 202324 January 2023
Posted inhospitals, health, aged care

Myeh-delaide’s controversial new Women’s and Children’s Hospital

by Mike Brown 13 December 202220 December 2022
Posted inSpinifex

Fabulaide? – governance and the “vision thing”

by Mike Brown 14 September 20225 September 2022
Planes at Adelaide Airport
Posted inSpinifex, Urbanism

Spectaculaide – why not steal the nation’s children?

by Mike Brown 28 August 202214 October 2022
Posted inSpinifex

Happilaide? Adelaidean born and fled – why do its citizens leave to succeed?

by Mike Brown 24 August 202224 August 2022
Posted inSpinifex

Radelaide – from “big country town” to the towers of “Sad Gimignano”

by Mike Brown 16 August 202224 August 2022
Posted inSpinifex

Radelaide – the worship of cars in the City of Churches

by Mike Brown 1 August 202224 August 2022
Posted inSpinifex

Naffelaide: “…time for Adelaide to just grow up”

by Mike Brown 22 July 202224 August 2022
Posted inSpinifex

Myeh-delaide – Australia’s emerging capital of urban mediocrity

by Mike Brown 18 July 202224 August 2022
Posted inSpinifex

Sifting through today’s gruesome geo political news to find a longer more positive view

by Mike Brown 21 March 202222 March 2022
Posted inHousing

What if we relaxed planning but only for more affordable housing? Meet the Woollahra Buyers Club

by Mike Brown 9 February 202215 February 2022
A house on a fish hook / Risks and negative sides of buying a house concept
Posted inSpinifex

Trust, political integrity and affordable housing

by Mike Brown 16 December 202116 December 2021
Posted inSpinifex

The greedy and stupid may yet kill us all

by Mike Brown 30 September 202130 September 2021
Posted inSpinifex

Planes, trains or automobiles

by Mike Brown 9 September 202115 September 2021
Posted inSpinifex

Parramatta’s Powerball House (and ministry for painting, prancing and poker)

by Mike Brown 23 August 202126 August 2021
Posted inPlanning

What the Pyrmont legacy really means

by Mike Brown 28 July 202128 July 2021
Posted inSpinifex

A rentier’s paradise: The real threat to liberal values

by Mike Brown 15 June 202115 June 2021
Posted inHousing

The house loses, so sad but could housing win? (Fat chance)

by Mike Brown 26 February 202126 February 2021
Powerhouse parramatta
Posted inPlanning

Is this house losing power? Someone somewhere is going to ask “why have we got two Powerhouses?”

by Mike Brown 18 February 202123 February 2021
housing estate glebe
Posted inHousing

The economics (not) of 22 new public housing units in Glebe… or asset stripping

by Mike Brown 28 January 202128 January 2021
Posted inSpinifex

Leadership: Why “unfit to govern” is such a thing now

by Mike Brown 22 December 202026 January 2021
Posted inSpinifex

Five ways to achieve a post-pandemic governance epiphany

by Mike Brown 1 October 20201 October 2020

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