Posts by Keir Leslie
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Eh, I don't want to pull the "I am from Christchurch" thing, but I am and you are not and I really dislike the way you used my broken city as a chance to have a go at Tom.
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In fact Tom's right, there does need to be some kind of thinking about what people want and the best way to make that happen, and it might not be as simple as just doing exactly the things they say. That's why town planning is a profession.
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Tom wasn't being a twat. You are. I just came home through the CBD and I just don't want to read a bunch of snide crap.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sacha,
Actually Sacha, I'm going to be quite blunt here and say that I don't particularly want to read your petty snarking about Tom here.
I live in a city that's fucked, and you see it as a chance to score points in some weird argument about the proper way to understand leftism?
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Convention centres are privatised town halls.
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Actually I'm going to disagree that it's hard to plan cheap & scruffy. Obviously I'll have to wander off and find my copy of Hatherley before making any more pronouncements on town planning, but I think you can aim to have cheap, interesting spaces.
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Jacobs is, I hate to say it, pretty useless for talking about Chch, because central Christchurch is going to be a totally planned city.
Personally I'd like more grand axes and triumphal ways, if we're going to be planned we may as well be planned.
I don't like the height limit, it's a bad idea.
Screw convention centres, I think that's one of the worst possible uses for a site of such civic significance.
Also, heaps and heaps of embedded assumptions --- space will be made for a new cathedral etc.
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On the other hand, Helensville is substantially more rightwing than average in NZ, & presumably older than average. So I dunno, I do think that Key may be right in that marriage equality might not have a majority in Helensville.
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Connelly v DPP! That's the UK one where the guy gets off on murder, but is then subsequently convicted for the aggravated robbery that occurred at the time. (But we've got a different rule, and I think that there was also some strange form of indictment thing going on.) This was nagging me all day.
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Not proven also stops a second trial on the same offence.