Posts by Sacha
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And the Frame logic is confirmed.
Miskell says this is where the advantage of having all the experts in the one place really showed. Cera's economics team could see angles that Blueprint's architects and urban planners could not imagine.
The economists said a much fatter park strip - one a whole 220m, or an entire city block wide - would have the double benefit of creating green amenity in that part of town while also mopping up the excess land.
In post-quake Christchurch, the city's real worry was crashing property values and producing an artificial shortage this way would help prop up the market. And from the Government's point of view, it could also be a canny investment for the Crown.
Essentially, the Crown would be landbanking property that in the long-term would be made a lot more valuable by Christchurch becoming a success. In future years, if the central city started to bulge at the seams, this land could be released back to the market.
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and in case we're in any doubt about who was in charge..
Miskell can at last afford to relax after the "100 days" allowed his small group, co-led with Peter Marshall, managing director of Christchurch architects Warren and Mahoney, to re-invent a city.
A hundred days, Miskell scoffs. It was 80 days by the time the contract was actually awarded by Cera's Christchurch Central Development Unit (CCDU).
And this in turn became effectively 42 days because 90 per cent of the plan had to be complete by June 29, giving the Government an early chance to say whether it liked the direction the work was headed.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Ed Muzik,
the three big ticket items – stadium, convention centre, metro sports hub – will come to 1.2 billion
The $1.2b price tag was about $720 million more than budgeted for in the city council's annual plan.
Coleman's source said the stadium would cost $506m, the convention centre $460m and the sports facility $227m.
Now there must be some assets sitting around that the private sector would like to buy for about $720m..
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Susan Sontag on writing.
To be a great writer:
know everything about adjectives and punctuation (rhythm)
have moral intelligence — which creates true authority in a writer -
Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Islander,
This is all saying far more about you than about me. Perhaps read back over what has been said and have another think about it.
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Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Islander,
You obviously did not realise that are several varieties of people who have books published
You've made some assumptions, and we know what they say about those. Don't diminish your mana with petty attacks.
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Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Islander,
I don't need in-depth expertise to raise basic questions like that in a discussion. Also probably more aware than you of that difference in digital realms. Pull your head in.
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Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Islander,
I think you dont know
your dismissiveness is noted
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Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Islander,
ANZ non-fiction
by writers, one presumes
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
We've still got a bit of cleaning up to do before we have a fully secular state.
so true. one form of prayer in civic functions is nuts