In this bold new world the suburbs cast aside their pre-corona personas and create localised communities pivoting to work-near-home collaboration spaces and education and civic facilities. The urban fabric loses its fried-egg logic and scrambles into a patchwork of self-contained but interconnected communities. Bike paths, walking trails, local tramway networks radiating from — wait for it — non-CBD hubs reorganise the logic of Australian suburbia. Spidery webs of trails and pathways and tramways radiate from places such as Parramatta, Monash-Chadstone and Mount Gravatt.

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It is bold. It is brave. It reduces carbon emissions. It spreads the demand for property, making housing more affordable. It requires investment in public transport and accessibility by state and local governments. It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to press the reset button and rebuild the kind of Australia that is sustainable and workable and affordable and that is kinder to our mental health. Source: The Australian.