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The City strikes back (opens the original)
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TRAUMA TOWN Part 9: The City of Sydney had always been a good location. Grimes author of Sydney’s first planning scheme, got a real sense of the place, pacing out all those tents for the 1800 LEP The Twin worked the legal courts in the south of the city, back from Canberra and he liked the steamies (dim sim) down in Chinatown. He used to say to me, “you have to get down there before they get up to Oxford Street and realise how high the standard is in this town.” And real things happened there. T
The City strikes back (opens the original)
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TRAUMA TOWN Part 9: The City of Sydney had always been a good location. Grimes author of Sydney’s first planning scheme, got a real sense of the place, pacing out all those tents for the 1800 LEP. The Twin worked the legal courts in the south of the city, back from Canberra and he liked the steamies (dim sim) down in Chinatown. He used to say to me, “you have to get down there before they get up to Oxford Street and realise how high the standard is in this town.” And real things happened there.
Council Confidential: the stuff that went on and on (opens the original)
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Trauma Town, part 8: What I realised over time is that the heritage vibe in council isn’t just in the local environmental plans. If you wanted to understand what the socio-economic environment was in a particular place 20-30 years ago, go work in the local council because that’s the general time lag between the socio-economic reality of the broader community and culture of the council. Monkeys always seem modern because monkey life has a timeless impulsivity to it. Councils are places of replica
The long road from short order cook to planning professional (opens the original)
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TRAUMA TOWN, PART 7: My first real job was with a council, assistant librarian at Stanton Library in North Sydney. I was still doing my bachelor’s degree and was getting sick of the assorted jobs I used to trade in, dish pig and so forth. Those jobs. There was an industrial reason I ended up in that council job. Short order cook at Taronga Zoo Cafeteria. Mid-80s Taronga Zoo catering was full of John Cusack-type figures languishing in their last school holiday job at 28. It was a classic closed s
Ancestors, early settlers and the rise and fall of prime real estate (opens the original)
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TRAUMA TOWN PART 6: There are slippery migrants in this town that I loosely associate with my own ancestors. There is a myth in my father’s family about arriving early in Sydney. It was 1792 when the first ancestor on the maternal side, Captain Thomas Rowley, arrived on the Minerva. There was nothing glorious about the Minerva. Its journey to Sydney started in Cork in Ireland, where I presume my obedient ancestor must have assisted the then British government with transporting 200 united Irishme
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