Beautiful libraries: From monastic tradition to constructed fantasies #architecture architectureau.com/articles/beaut…

'Our cities are densifying, as they must, at increasing speed,' writes Elizabeth Farrelly. 

'Throughout not only cities but also outer suburbs and regional towns, high-density resi-towers are mushrooming. In principle, that’s a good thing – but the quality!' satpa.pe/vxY1YbB

Is every utopia pregnant with the seeds of its own tyrannical end? Listen to the podcast.... @thesaturdaypaper SchwarzMedia

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How is this OK? There is nothing domestic about domestic violence. Our terminology suggest it's somehow fine, in the family, even cuddly. It's not fine. Murder is murder.

Soulless apartments and a world nobody wants. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/cities/20… via The Saturday Paper

What happens to a city when its creatives get squeezed out? Cities have always been the founts of creative civilisation. What happens when they can no longer live there? Tomorrow on THE SYDNEYIST Eastside 89.7 FM we ask three artists can they survive? And can Sydney? #sydney

What. We have a new governor general who is on the board of Transurban? And Mirvac? Seriously? So much for ending the motorway catastrophe of our cities #urbanism #walkingcity

In praise of the bathtub architectureau.com/articles/in-pr…

Qtopia: Australia's first Queer museum: join me 6pm tomorrow on THE SYDNEYIST Eastside 89.7 FM to chat with CEO Greg Fisher and historian Garry Fisher about colonising the lovely old, cruelty-steeped Darlo cop-shop for this purpose youtu.be/YTJX_R-frkc?si… via YouTube #gayrights

'A utopia (like a perfectly tidy house) is all the more desirable for being unachievable,' writes Elizabeth Farrelly.

'When it collapses it’s not simply into imperfection but, often, into the very inverse, as if the striving itself generated some moral u-turn.' satpa.pe/jTAjRDn

“The units are all sold, but there’s nobody living in them.”

It’s as though, learning the old utopian lesson, these planned cities not only accommodated human greed but relied upon it, only to learn that greed is not enough, writes Elizabeth Farrelly. satpa.pe/XdKVJnU

Undermined, as ever, by our own greed, tyranny and refusal of self-knowledge, turning our utopias to their ugly flipside #cities #urbanism #utopia thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/cities/20…

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The uglifiers: How the decoupling of beauty and goodness has blighted our cities architectureau.com/articles/the-u…

Murdering Minerva, tomorrow 6pm on The Sydneyist Eastside 89.7 FM youtu.be/V8zebmnMiW0?si… via YouTube

Tonight on The Sydneyist Eastside 89.7 FM Sydney's vanishing oysters and what can be done... join me at 6pm this. evening youtube.com/watch?v=e-QLGd…

Tomorrow 6pm on The Sydneyist Eastside 89.7 FM the amazing vanishing lil-big-guy that is the Sydney Harbour oyster UNSW #Sydney #urbanfarming

The Trees of Rose Bay Golf Course youtube.com/shorts/V9BfnLO… via YouTube The Sydneyist Eastside 89.7 FM tomorrow at six!

It's gonna be a big year for space exploration. But is storming off to new planets - all guns blazing and the same old behaviours in our pockets - a valid response to having wrecked this one? #architecture #spacerace #spacehabitat #mars
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'Creaming off the most advantaged kids into schools with palatial facilities, we pour billions of public dollars into further advantaging them, all while underfunding public schools that already struggle for basic amenities,' writes Elizabeth Farrelly. satpa.pe/Rj2J6Uh