Big Perth: the series that nearly broke my mind

 
 

I'm dead proud of both myself and my colleagues for pulling together this massive, fascinating, data-driven, visually attractive series, which ran daily on WAtoday last week. We broke our minds so you didn't have to!

Frankly, no other Perth-based media outlet is covering these topics, let alone harnessing these digital storytelling tools. The result, I think, is something unique.

Hope one piques your interest — or if you've got time, read them all. I promise you'll learn stuff that will make you sound smart during dinner party conversations. Click the headlines to go to the story:

 

Do you know how many of Perth's 800,000 new homes are planned for your neighbourhood?

  • 3 September 2018, by Emma Young

 

Halting urban sprawl involves councils building new higher density housing. They're not off to a good start.

  • 3 September 2018, by Emma Young, Hamish Hastie, David Allan-Petale, Nathan Hondros & Conal Hanna

 

‘Halting urban sprawl’ has become a catchphrase in Perth in recent years, but it’s closer to fantasy than reality, a new WAtoday analysis suggests.

  • 4 September 2018, by Emma Young & David Allan-Petale

 

There are plans to double the number of homes in Perth, Victoria Park, Subiaco and Peppermint Grove councils.

  • 4 September 2018, by Emma Young

 

It's a 90-minute drive away but planners are predicting newcomers will soon outnumber existing residents four to one.

  • 5 September 2018, by Hamish Hastie

 

Perth's northern suburbs are growing again but, with greater density than Subiaco, this is a different kind of sprawl.

  • 6 September 2018, by David Allan-Petale

 

It was once the semi-rural gateway to Western Australia's Wheatbelt, but Perth's north-east is an unexpected epicentre for the city's urban sprawl.

  • 7 September 2018, by Nathan Hondros

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