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Is 'the suburbs' a useful idea anymore? : Comments

By Alan Davies, published 2/8/2016

Tall residential towers are widely seen as inappropriate in the suburbs. But maybe the idea of 'the suburbs' is itself no longer appropriate

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It's a very practical idea to build high rise developments along existing urban commuter rail lines. And usually allows commuters to travel without ever needing to buy a car, or clog the gridlocked commuter highways with them!

Of course there will be folk, who don't care for the idea or cities that extend their footprint out into the suburbs! And those folk can take comfort in the super highway of tomorrow. The NBN, which will allow a lot more folk to work or study at home, or conduct an enterprise from virtually anywhere that they find more aesthetically pleasing!

Simply put, there's just one constant in the entire universe and that constant is constant change! Change we need to adapt to or be steam rolled by it as it passes over us. And unstoppable no matter how loudly we protest or object! Just ask the Dodo, the democrat party or the whoslem bird of legend, that reputedly flew in ever decreasing circles until it disappeared down its own fundamental orifice! And I know you know what that means!?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 2 August 2016 10:22:18 AM
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What an absolutely dreadful idea. While OK for the young for a while, families need some private outside space to live in.

Check the UK, & the worst slums, with most trouble are the council flats. Places where people are hemmed in by 4 walls, with nothing to do but watch TV or get out of the place. It is the kids from these vertical slums that cause most of the low level crime & vandalism.

NSW housing commission tried the council flat system way back in the late 50s & 60s. It was touted as the new thing in urban renewal.

This was just another example of dumb planners coming back from a taxpayer funded overseas trip, with yet another very bad idea. Jamming so many together generated so much trouble that they couldn't wait to tear them down, in the name of urban renewal.

All this idea would do is make some profits for planners, consultants & a few smarties, while moving a horizontal slum to a vertical slum. As the article says, most employment is out of city centres. What we need is some serious satellite city development, to move both jobs & people out of high rise city centres, if for nothing but an improvement in their mental health by getting them a bit closer to nature.
Posted by Hasbeen, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 1:19:55 PM
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"What we need is some serious satellite city development, to move both jobs & people out of high rise city centres.."

Agreed.

But that was tried by Whitlam and others and failed. Because the feds' 'diversity-Australia-has-to-have' preferences migrants who lob near Centrelink in the large capitals and refuse to move.

Yet in the past there have been migrants who have been well known for moving to the country and loving it. As a bonus those migrants have generally been good law-abiding citizens too. That is if one can overlook the idiotic mistakes (to be diplomatic) of politicians eg Ms Vanstone who allowed Mafia crime bosses to settle in Oz. The aftermath,

http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/mafia-bust-in-italy-reveals-family-ties-run-deep-in-australia/news-story/b6803431ac01ec3280cc0f735933f9a0

Go back through the newspapers and both sides of politics always protected the sacred cow of immigration and denied the existence of organised crime in Australia.

Just to say that immigration policy must NOT be swung by the 'diversity' tail. The pros and cons of policy and population numbers must be discussed with the electorate and not just the multicultural urgers.
Posted by onthebeach, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 1:38:11 PM
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Why is it so hard to connect rural towns not far from each other, where many travel back and forth each day, with railway services ?

Perhaps a major difficulty the petrol taxes..
Posted by polpak, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 8:38:02 PM
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