Back from the lecture, good stuff. Here are my raw, unedited notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Decent turnout today, is that usual for these talks or is it because of the UDI conference that's on this week? Certa...

Sure, will do.

I'll be there, anyone else coming?

Well, tip of the hat to the 'Tiser who produced an interactive map with links to sections of the draft plan for the various areas around the city rim. Only small, high-level documents in each case, but a starting point for seeing what is discussed in the full plan. Stumpjumper I'm not sure that it b...

thanks David. Would definitely like to know more about this as information arises: (Item 11.22) Council agreed to send the Lord Mayor and the CEO on an overseas tour of TODs, organised by the UDIA. The tour will investigate recent TOD’s, how they are performing and how best to apply that experience...

I agree with ricecrackers that moving the stadium into the city has little to do with increasing economic activity (as was all said in the book Public Dollars, Private Stadiums ), *unless* it brings many extra tourists to the city. However, I disagree with him strongly on the question of parking. If...

I certainly agree with you Mono, but I have never seen any record of it being called Glenelg Road - I have, however, seen it referred to as Bay Road or The Bay Road, particularly in captions for old photographs. This is a great opportunity for me to mention MapCo's collection of old (19th & ear...

Considering we just had a test match where 38,000 people attended on a Friday that wasn't a public holiday, putting the oval traffic far closer to the commuting traffic than the football ever will, not to mention each of them competing for the same parking spaces, and as far as I could see the city ...

I know that the Southern Cross arcade doesn't get much love in these parts, but it has the best food court in of all the spots along the mall. Too many of the others have just produced shiny but deadly dull courts that wouldn't be out of place in a Westfield (City Cross - I'm looking at you), the ki...

But this is exactly what I'm talking about when I talk of the 2 cent race to the bottom. The fact that our Asian friends find it normal to live in such small spaces is not something good or something we should emulate. Our Asian friends come from countries which have standards of life much lower th...

Stumpy, I'm confident that your posts have been built upon fallacious reasoning, although I'm not sure of exactly which kind . I think that at heart it boils down to (1) they are written with such loaded language, (2) they often contain inappropriate comparisons and (3) your reasoning sometimes take...

I know it's already been said, but unless designating those apartments as "affordable" gives the developers some other benefits from the council, I don't think that they have any business setting minimum sizes. If there's a market for teeny-tiny dwellings in the city, then so be it. Do the...

My favourite building is the Grenfell Centre. 70's International at its best, the black glass is ever so moody and pretty. I'm with you on that one, and I liked it even better before the new shopfronts went into the former plaza at the front. It was our own "arriving late to the party" no...

Final parts of Union Hall seem to be coming down now. From our office we could see that the crane's back in there taking apart the rear section of the building.