# Fun Friday: Skateboarding city tours (Brisbane & Porto Alegre)

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2014-09-13
**Categories:** architect-this-city, architects, architecture, atc, athiscity, australia, brazil, brisbane, careers, cities, city-tours, porto-alegre, real-estate-developer, skate-videos, skateboarding, uncategorized, urbanism
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/fun-friday-skateboarding-city-tours-brisbane-and-porto-alegre

## Content

Some of you told me that yesterday’s post on careers was actually quite sad. That it came across as if I were advocating for people, not to do what they love, but to instead do what makes them the most money. But that was not my intention. There were a lot of reasons why I got into real estate development, and perhaps I oversimplified yesterday. But a lot of it actually came down to the fact that I’m passionate about building great cities (hence this blog). And I thought it was ultimately unfair that some investment-banker-turned-developer, who doesn’t really care about cities, might end up having more say over the built environment than me, the architect. So I decided to sacrifice designing individual buildings in the hope that I’d one day be able to give back to cities on a much larger scale. And I still hope to be able to do that. In any case, to end the week on a more fun note, I thought I would do a post called Fun Friday and link to 2 city tours: one of Brisbane, Australia, and one of Porto Alegre, Brazil. But these aren’t just any city tours. They are by local skateboarders showing you their city. I posted one for Toronto about 8 months ago, so some of you might be familiar with the series. I love how differently skateboarders look at the urban environment. I hope you can appreciate it as well. Brisbane, Australia: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEFQLjnhKT4?rel=0] Porto Alegre, Brazil: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taF71igPZY0?rel=0]

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