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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47366 At my desk.	Re: urban sprawl Reply #30 - Jun 17^th, 2007 at 12:43pm Many people buy a house because of green space within walking distance. If local councils change the rules and subdivide what was previously understood to be permanent green space, those people get ripped off. The developer makes a killing, but the surrounding neighbourhood is worse off.
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IQSRLOW Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 1618	Re: urban sprawl Reply #31 - Jun 17^th, 2007 at 12:52pm Some people buy country property for those very same reasons.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47366 At my desk.	Re: urban sprawl Reply #32 - Jun 17^th, 2007 at 12:55pm Most of us have to make do with shared green space and can't afford to own our own. That doesn't mean we should have to make do with no green space. Sharing green space usually results in a much smaller ecological footprint.
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Re: urban sprawl
Reply #33 - Jun 19^th, 2007 at 11:23am

freediver wrote on Jun 16^th, 2007 at 9:49pm:

When it comes to town planning, I really don't care that there is miles and miles barely inhabited desert in the inland. I want green space in the cities. I want cities that are planned properly around public transport and other infrastructure. The best example of Cox's town planning philosophy is Los Angeles. Trust me, you don't want our cities ending up like that.

Right on! There actually is plenty of space though, its just not in the capitals! If people in this country looked beyond the capital cities they would find loads of suburban space in the regional centres which are all crying out for population. I think the thrust of the state government plan to limit sprawl is to force people out into the regional cities, making them into real cities as they should be. As a nation we are far too focused on the 7 capitals.

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Re: urban sprawl
Reply #34 - Jun 19^th, 2007 at 2:44pm

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Right on! There actually is plenty of space though, its just not in the capitals! If people in this country looked beyond the capital cities they would find loads of suburban space in the regional centres which are all crying out for population. I think the thrust of the state government plan to limit sprawl is to force people out into the regional cities, making them into real cities as they should be. As a nation we are far too focused on the 7 capitals.

Exactly right. Good call.

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