Before...and After.This mayor care about the future of their city...now why can't more care?
The first image is a familiar aerial photo of many cities, or outer suburban business centres. Large buildings, lots of roads, no green space, pedestrians non-existant.
The second image is what this particular urban sprawl could become if the mayor gets their way, and if subsequent mayors continue on the same path, densification and peoplisation(word? it is now) of outer burbs business centres could all become their own city, with metro style underground, green spaces and bus networks that work.
If only certain powers to be here had ambition and forward thinking ideas that looked further than re-election.
Link via NPR.org
P.s. Sorry about the lack there of posts, been swamped at work.
1 comment:
Comments about lack of political will to promote sustainability in our cities/regional towns were made at the Kemsley Oration organised by the Planning Institute. I agree with you that vision is important. The effort to continue implementing the vision through long term strategies is equally important once vision is developed, as we need to go beyond the rhetoric.
Maybe it's unreasonable to expect politicians to go beyond the expectation of community, as the system is designed in such a way that encourages politican, not statemen, to survive. While leaders need to be effective in communicating about his/her ideas, his ideas can never be too far ahead of the community.
Mechanisms to keep leaders in check is good, as we can't be too realistic when it comes to implementation of visions.
Different from America, we in Australia do not have a once-and-for-all type of consultation for developments. We have lots of "should" in our policies while departure from sustainable development is proved to be occurring too often despite these should-do-green policy. On the bright side, it is fair to say that the Victorian government, among other States in Australia, has recognized the importance to have community to catch up with the policies advancement and their awareness so as to deliver incremental changes; The other side of the coin is obviously the resulting slow progress which sometimes cause unreversible detriment to communities.
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