tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post115801171844058318..comments2023-11-03T19:05:08.512+11:00Comments on Harry Clarke: Melbourne then & nowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-76225283118898977572008-06-12T17:20:00.000+10:002008-06-12T17:20:00.000+10:00He is an extreme libertarian. I just think he is w...He is an extreme libertarian. I just think he is wrong - there are environmental externalities everywhere that cannot be resolved by individual contracting.hchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799594181016858701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-17536835291837729122008-06-12T17:16:00.000+10:002008-06-12T17:16:00.000+10:00Hi,I have bought this book recently and it's quite...Hi,<BR/>I have bought this book recently and it's quite informative for me as an international student. It was also interesting to see someone from economic background being interested in environmental issues. I was reading a book by Robert Nosick that you may know him, Anarchy, State, And Utopia and it was difficult for me to understand how environmental or collective issues can be ifnored in favour of what Nosick calls "personal freedom". Is he still popular?Morteza Mirgholamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135671231676142922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-1158176176318517202006-09-14T05:36:00.000+10:002006-09-14T05:36:00.000+10:00Federation Square is so aweful, what a waste of po...Federation Square is so aweful, what a waste of potential. So is the RMIT building. Many, many of the Melbourne Uni buildings are horrific reminders of the 1950s and 60s concrete architecture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-1158098833019841362006-09-13T08:07:00.000+10:002006-09-13T08:07:00.000+10:00Lucy, Many of the places you mention are also feat...Lucy, Many of the places you mention are also featured in this study. Yes the Trades Hall Building a great design And Vic Market has sections very unchanged in yonks. I'll look again at the places you mention. (BTW this book at LTU bookshop - a great Xmas present!)<BR/><BR/>Russ, Of course you are right. You only see the survivor buildings and that is a biased sample which is further biased by the selection process itself for a book like this. <BR/><BR/>But still walking down Collins St from you do see the good and the bad alongside each other. The older architectural styles seem easier on the eye to me. They have elegance and a sense of style. Many of the more modern stuff looks cheap even if functional. <BR/><BR/>I like Rialto but not the Arts Centre and definitely not Federation Square. When I am next in the city I'll look again at <B>all</B> the places you mention.hchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799594181016858701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-1158058739796204362006-09-12T20:58:00.000+10:002006-09-12T20:58:00.000+10:00A few more?Royal Arcade and the Block Arcade, Vict...A few more?<BR/><BR/>Royal Arcade and the Block Arcade, Victoria Market, Trades Hall and Horti Hall, and they're not nineteenth century buildings, but the Forum and the Capitol.<BR/><BR/>I love Melbourne. I don't hate Federation Square all that much, not the outside, anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22031270.post-1158032619531019902006-09-12T13:43:00.000+10:002006-09-12T13:43:00.000+10:00It was convenient for Melbourne that it did not ex...It was convenient for Melbourne that it did not experience a boom between the Victorian goldrush and 1980s.<BR/><BR/>Adelaide faired even better. Arguably it has not experienced a serious boom since the Burra et al copper discoveries.<BR/><BR/>Perth shows the other end of the scale it did not experience a boom until 1980 and with up and downs has been in boom times ever since. <BR/><BR/>I leave the national capital to someone who can sum up a fantasy city surrounded by reality adequately.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com