'Sydney can't sit back any more': Five ideas to get back the fun and create a city to be proud of
has canvassed Sydney's strengths, weaknesses and opportunities as we turn the next decade into a period of renewed optimism for Australia's only true global city.
"Because imagine if they built a box here instead of this beautiful building. It's a bit difficult when you're building a rail line or a hospital, but generally speaking."to name something in the city she considered beautiful, the Premier said she "can't go past the Opera House as a place of design inspiration". But she also nominated the Barangaroo foreshore walk as "a modern example of good design which restores public access".
"Get big trees in the ground," she says. "Trees are the number one thing to do if you're trying to reduce temperatures and reduce electricity consumption – particularly reduce the need to switch on the air conditioning unit on the wall." While tree planting is partly a council issue, Gallagher says it requires state government planning to do properly because of the complexity of co-ordinating underground utilities such as water mains, electricity and telecommunications.
Ms Madigan says such a campaign would work both nationally and internationally, and the domestic ads could even acknowledge the mistakes made by governments in the past. "Every other mainland state capital has better theatres that Sydney and yet the audiences are here," he says. That could be achieved by moving the museum's science and technology exhibits to Parramatta and using one of the government's old heritage-listed CBD buildings as a decorative arts museum, Schofield suggests.
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