Privately owned public space?

I can't see why not. Particularly, when it's DONATED as a community neighborhood open space! That the user community maintains and then are buried in/under it? Be they the suburb or the affected street?

In any event, town planning should dictate mandatory green space! i.e., That no building higher than three floors, casts a shadow over! And that's how one guarantees green space alongside urban density.

Interestingly, city folk create 2.5 times more carbon, as their personal carbon footprints, look mum, tinned people. By dint of sheer numbers and compressed compacted living arrangements, than their country cousins!

I see the answer to many of the raised conundrums, as planned and managed decentralization. And on high ground, as opposed to floodplains and our most productive arable land or habitat.

You'd be forgiven for thinking it was a no brainer?
Alan B.

Given the alleged thread/topic is Nation building and privately owned open space?

Have you ever considered what difference really really affordable energy could make along with really really affordable desalinated water?

Deserts are often vast, open, privately-owned, empty space!

With just the addition of the above, they could be vast, open, empty, privately owned gardens!

Productive green space that not only feeds and prospers the nation, but quite massively grows our sustainable export incomes.

And if that privately own space was owned by private enterprise co-ops?

The local economy and the nation could prosper and quite massively as well!

Rather than parasitical, debt laden, tax avoiding, profit repatriating foreign investors, with anything but public/shared amenity in mind?

And here, hard on the heels of a very dry spell, record breaking heat waves and a frightening wave of bush fires?

Proposed as, new space age desalination, four times cheaper than traditional desal! That produces voluminous 90% potable water!

Then couple that nation building amenity to power, even private power, with a median price of around $1.98PKH!? And doable!

Then imagine we, with this power and mountains of our own iron ore and an underutilized workforce, employed as owner operated co-ops? Could do with privately owned open space? [And a few strategically placed pipelines/railways.]

And Lord haven't we got plenty of that and them!
Alan B.

Grace on Coronation is an utter abomination! So too, was the previous ABC site, which I always hoped would be turned into a beautiful riverside public space, but this is a thousand times worse.

I lived in Toowong in the early 80s, when it was a beautiful suburb, one that I hoped to finally settle in. But the building of the revolting Toowong tower and grotesque rail station destroyed that fantasy.

Private space for public consumption comes with the ruthless condition that private developers build hideous corporate towers that plunge public spaces into permanent shadows and wind tunnels, and charge those enjoyers of the privately bestowed public space an arm and a leg to park in their underground carparks.

Whatever. I'll always remember Toowong as it once was. A place of beauty and charm and gracious Queenslanders. A place where life was so simple and inexpensive that impoverished UQ students lived well. What a shame that one has to live long enough to see something so beautiful so destroyed by capitalist greed.

Hear, hear and well said Killarney!
Alan B.

Killarney,

Infrastructure and the ratepayers pockets could never keep up with the overpopulation surges from the mass immigration policies of successive federal governments.

You are right of course, the destruction of the community environment and more importantly, the inability to learn from and adopt the leaps forward in designing sustainable cities that encourage and support improved wellbeing, in health, safety, social and other dimensions including financial.

The critical prerequisite to consider and implement what is already known and is in place for greying populations in some Netherlands cities for example, is a respite from the furious pace of population growth in Australia. But that means that federal governments cannot rest their economic planning on the Ponzie of mass immigration.

Alan B.

Thanks.

leoj

I'd like to respond, but I'm not sure what your point is - at least, in relation to my comment.