Comments for CityALLIANCE: Brisbane, Auckland, Vancouver, Perth http://cityalliance.wordpress.com A weblog on issues of concern to cities of similar character Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:19:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Vancouver influences along the Gold Coast by PromoProx http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/vancouver-influences-along-the-gold-coast/#comment-241 PromoProx Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:19:16 +0000 http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/vancouver-influences-along-the-gold-coast/#comment-241 where did you get your wordpress template where did you get your wordpress template

]]> Comment on Australia more multicultural than Canada by Sue http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/australia-more-multicultural-than-canada/#comment-239 Sue Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:28:27 +0000 http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/australia-more-multicultural-than-canada/#comment-239 I understand you wrote this over a year ago, but I am curious. Why did it surprise you that Australia had more foreigners than Canada? I understand you wrote this over a year ago, but I am curious. Why did it surprise you that Australia had more foreigners than Canada?

]]> Comment on Vancouver influences along the Gold Coast by Juromenha http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/vancouver-influences-along-the-gold-coast/#comment-238 Juromenha Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:19:25 +0000 http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/vancouver-influences-along-the-gold-coast/#comment-238 Your blog is interesting! Keep up the good work! Your blog is interesting! Keep up the good work!

]]> Comment on The Humphreys Original by madeOceaxia http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/the-humphrey-manifesto/#comment-237 madeOceaxia Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:16:59 +0000 https://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/the-humphrey-manifesto/#comment-237 Very interesting blog. I like to utilize my modest treasury A joke for you! How can you have bread if you are on a liquid diet? Drink a toast!! Very interesting blog. I like to utilize my modest treasury A joke for you! How can you have bread if you are on a liquid diet? Drink a toast!!

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]]> Comment on Vancouver influences along the Gold Coast by Welwood, Frances http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/vancouver-influences-along-the-gold-coast/#comment-68 Welwood, Frances Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:09:25 +0000 http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/vancouver-influences-along-the-gold-coast/#comment-68 re article Vanc. Sun Sept. 22/07 K12. I am 65 years old and I remember when the intersection of Hastings and Granville engaged the type of pedestrian traffic system Mr. Geller observed in Auckland. On the pedestrian light all pedestrians ran in all and every direction at the same time---very confusing, especially to a small child. I think the system was discontinued c. 1950. re article Vanc. Sun Sept. 22/07 K12. I am 65 years old and I remember when the intersection of Hastings and Granville engaged the type of pedestrian traffic system Mr. Geller observed in Auckland. On the pedestrian light all pedestrians ran in all and every direction at the same time—very confusing, especially to a small child. I think the system was discontinued c. 1950.

]]> Comment on Price Tags 93 – Melbourne by pricetags http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/price-tags-93-melbourne/#comment-18 pricetags Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:02:53 +0000 http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/price-tags-93-melbourne/#comment-18 Sean Ruthen, an architectural intern, sends along a newsletter from AIBC with a report on his trip to Melbourne. (Click here: http://www.aibc.ca/pdf/April_2007_Intern_Update.pdf) Sean Ruthen, an architectural intern, sends along a newsletter from AIBC with a report on his trip to Melbourne. (Click here: http://www.aibc.ca/pdf/April_2007_Intern_Update.pdf)

]]> Comment on Vancouver influences along the Gold Coast by Foreign Ownership and Vacancy Rates « Price Tags http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/vancouver-influences-along-the-gold-coast/#comment-14 Foreign Ownership and Vacancy Rates « Price Tags Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:11:46 +0000 http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/vancouver-influences-along-the-gold-coast/#comment-14 [...] 6th, 2007 · No Comments A Price Tags reader was reading Michael Geller’s blog entry on Australia’s Gold Coast, and one of the things that jumped out at hmi was this: There is a 50-per-cent cap on the number of [...] [...] 6th, 2007 · No Comments A Price Tags reader was reading Michael Geller’s blog entry on Australia’s Gold Coast, and one of the things that jumped out at hmi was this: There is a 50-per-cent cap on the number of [...]

]]> Comment on The Humphreys Original by Jeff Humphreys http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/the-humphrey-manifesto/#comment-11 Jeff Humphreys Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:40:51 +0000 https://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/the-humphrey-manifesto/#comment-11 Here is the abstract for the paper that I will deliver at the PIA National Congress in Perth, 1st May. We are also expecting some activity aroundthe BAVPPer idea, when Gordon Price (of Vancouver) visits Brisbane in February / March ... “Latitude Latitude Attitude: The BAVPPer Manifesto” Jeff Humphreys Principal, Humphreys Reynolds Perkins Planning Consultants; Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland Abstract As suggested by the organiser’s theme for this conference, planners are often looking beyond the place where they work for models that will assist them to plan and deliver better urban environmental outcomes. In many cases, we are looking at exemplars that are small scale and not dependent upon features of the city setting that are similar. So, for example, planners can go around the world for examples of inner city urban renewal projects, waterfront redevelopment and transit-oriented development. However, cities are complex beasts, and there are often features about different cities that make their planning problems and challenges different from others, and reduce the transferability of solutions that have been developed, to other settings. There is an implication in the choice of the Conference topic, that climate may provide a distinguishing feature, in looking for relevant exemplars for Perth. (So how did Vancouver sneak in?) This paper suggests that in searching for relevant exemplars, it is appropriate to adopt an attitude of latitude about latitude, because there are other factors that are more important. The paper proposes that if searching for relevant exemplars for Perth, there is a particular affinity between Brisbane, Auckland, Vancouver, Portland and Perth, (The BAVPPer cities), that is useful for planners from those places to explore. Why these five? • Similar size • Prosperous New World cities • British Commonwealth! (Portland was added after a meeting in Vancouver in July 2006 – the essential quality is the underpinning implicit common assumptions about the relationship between the public domain and the private domain) • High growth rates The paper presents the BAVPPer Manifesto, first circulated in May 2006, explores the potential value of studying these cities together and proposes initiatives for advancing a collaborative approach to addressing the urban planning opportunities and challenges of these wonderful cities. Here is the abstract for the paper that I will deliver at the PIA National Congress in Perth, 1st May. We are also expecting some activity aroundthe BAVPPer idea, when Gordon Price (of Vancouver) visits Brisbane in February / March
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“Latitude Latitude Attitude: The BAVPPer Manifesto”

Jeff Humphreys

Principal, Humphreys Reynolds Perkins Planning Consultants;
Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland

Abstract
As suggested by the organiser’s theme for this conference, planners are often looking beyond the place where they work for models that will assist them to plan and deliver better urban environmental outcomes. In many cases, we are looking at exemplars that are small scale and not dependent upon features of the city setting that are similar. So, for example, planners can go around the world for examples of inner city urban renewal projects, waterfront redevelopment and transit-oriented development. However, cities are complex beasts, and there are often features about different cities that make their planning problems and challenges different from others, and reduce the transferability of solutions that have been developed, to other settings. There is an implication in the choice of the Conference topic, that climate may provide a distinguishing feature, in looking for relevant exemplars for Perth. (So how did Vancouver sneak in?) This paper suggests that in searching for relevant exemplars, it is appropriate to adopt an attitude of latitude about latitude, because there are other factors that are more important. The paper proposes that if searching for relevant exemplars for Perth, there is a particular affinity between Brisbane, Auckland, Vancouver, Portland and Perth, (The BAVPPer cities), that is useful for planners from those places to explore.

Why these five?
• Similar size
• Prosperous New World cities
• British Commonwealth! (Portland was added after a meeting in Vancouver in July 2006 – the essential quality is the underpinning implicit common assumptions about the relationship between the public domain and the private domain)
• High growth rates

The paper presents the BAVPPer Manifesto, first circulated in May 2006, explores the potential value of studying these cities together and proposes initiatives for advancing a collaborative approach to addressing the urban planning opportunities and challenges of these wonderful cities.

]]> Comment on The Humphreys Original by Jeff Humphreys http://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/the-humphrey-manifesto/#comment-8 Jeff Humphreys Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:18:33 +0000 https://cityalliance.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/the-humphrey-manifesto/#comment-8 Interested to read comments by Jarrett and Guy, and to catch up with both in the space of a week in Brisbane! I think it is probably more important to work out what to do to make this idea useful, that to debate whether other cities should be included instead. The proposition is not that other places do not have something to teach us - we might, if we explore these five, learn more about the importance of other factors, in providing exemplars. I have spoken to John Minnery at UQ about whether to do some research, but we haven't gone anywhere with that yet. However, he is interesed, and likewise Michael Gunder, when I visited him in Auckland after I visited Vancouver in July, expressed interest. But what to do? I have submitted a paper to the PIA Congress committee for the National Congress in Perth in May 2007, titled (catchily) "Latitude Latitude Attitude". The theme of the conference is looking at different cities of the 32 Parallel (plus Vancouver, for some reason) Santiago, San Diego, Shanghai, Capetown and Perth, and I have proposed that there should be an attitude of greater latitude about latitude, when looking for exemplars, as that is not as important as the factors underpinning the BAVPPer Alliance. Anyway, the paper is yet to be accepted, but perhaps the Congress in Perth is a good place to hold a discussion about all of this, and I promise to have thought about where to go with it, and possibly to have done something, before then. Interested to read comments by Jarrett and Guy, and to catch up with both in the space of a week in Brisbane!
I think it is probably more important to work out what to do to make this idea useful, that to debate whether other cities should be included instead. The proposition is not that other places do not have something to teach us – we might, if we explore these five, learn more about the importance of other factors, in providing exemplars. I have spoken to John Minnery at UQ about whether to do some research, but we haven’t gone anywhere with that yet. However, he is interesed, and likewise Michael Gunder, when I visited him in Auckland after I visited Vancouver in July, expressed interest. But what to do?
I have submitted a paper to the PIA Congress committee for the National Congress in Perth in May 2007, titled (catchily) “Latitude Latitude Attitude”. The theme of the conference is looking at different cities of the 32 Parallel (plus Vancouver, for some reason) Santiago, San Diego, Shanghai, Capetown and Perth, and I have proposed that there should be an attitude of greater latitude about latitude, when looking for exemplars, as that is not as important as the factors underpinning the BAVPPer Alliance. Anyway, the paper is yet to be accepted, but perhaps the Congress in Perth is a good place to hold a discussion about all of this, and I promise to have thought about where to go with it, and possibly to have done something, before then.

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