Findings
Stories from the data.
Deep dives, reform impacts, and the making of the Atlas—each built on the same dataset that powers the site.
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Writeup ·
What we’ve fixed since launch, and why
Since launch, we’ve been monitoring feedback channels, made minor but substantive corrections across Sydney and Brisbane, run a routine data-currency refresh across every city we cover, and tracked a real Melbourne rezoning through the data.
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Writeup · Canberra ·
ACT’s Missing Middle: a city-wide upzoning
The Territory’s Missing Middle reforms upzoned almost every residential lot in Canberra, and reduced the total highly restricted land by almost 20%.
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Writeup ·
How we built the Australian Zoning Atlas
Over the course of a few months, we built a database that shifted hundreds of numbers hundreds of times—all in service of building the first comprehensive account of land use regulation across our country. This is a technical account of the tool that measures, classifies, and compares Australian zoning.