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cities November 11, 2023
The notion of Australia as an egalitarian society is outdated and the burgeoning class system of this country is becoming etched in its urban landscape.
cities September 9, 2023
The time has come for urban Australia to abandon the British Empire-based bungalow sprawl and follow a more collective European apartment model.
cities September 2, 2023
The price to perform at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
‘Hope for the best but prepare for the worst’ is a good approach for Australian comedians performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, especially in the current economic climate.
cities July 29, 2023
The measures needed to cool Australia’s rapidly heating urban environments are already clear – and the case to implement them is now urgent, as global temperature records topple.
cities June 24, 2023
The combined forces of the market, the internet and even Postmodern thinking have done the opposite of what they promised – narrowing rather than broadening our experience of the world – which is why the eccentric is more important than ever.
cities May 20, 2023
The housing crisis and nimbys v yimbys
Australia’s housing crisis will not be solved by the generational conflict between the ‘nimbys’ who reject development and the ‘yimbys’ calling for more.
cities February 4, 2023
How Canberra became interesting
The nation’s capital is locked in an architectural battle between the Worst of Sydney and the Way of the Griffins. Happily, it looks as if the Griffins are slowly winning.
cities October 29, 2022
Paul Keating’s love affair with Barangaroo
Paul Keating’s self-referential praise for Barangaroo is cringeful in its exultation of a development that is short on both architectural merit and social conscience.
cities October 15, 2022
Futuristic cities like Saudi Arabia’s The Line have one goal
The futuristic designs for cities from Saudi Arabia to the American desert are seductive visions grounded in systems of control.
cities August 13, 2022
What rampant inequality does to cities
When the wealthy can commandeer the choicest parts of a city and the poorest are left with nothing, a city has lost its way. Rampant inequality is a blight on the way we live.
cities July 9, 2022
A dream of innocence for unfettered, frictionless speed turned into a multi-laned nightmare when poets, painters and polemicists fanned the spark into a conflagration. Can art now offer any kind of remedy?
