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May 16, 2008
Adelaide is boring and dead. Melbourne, in contrast, is alive and jumping. That's the general consensus amongst those who live in Melbourne is vibrant. Who would live in dreary Adelaide, they ask? It lacks the bars in the back lanes of the CBD--- the hole-in-the-wall bar culture---and there is little nightlife. Come alive Adelaide.
Leunig
This kind of account ignores the developments that are taking place in the CBD and the effects that the shift to inner city living is beginning to happen. It does not look at the positives or the potentiality that could happen with right kind of urban planning. It just says that Adelaide is not like Melbourne rather than exploring the way that Adelaide could develop as something different.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Adelaide, Development, 2008
Creativity is more important than vibrancy as the former is based around the artists, musicians, digital entrepreneurs and being able to live and work in a city. That requires cheap rents and cheap studio space ----as in Berlin---and being able to access part time work and having easy access to galleries, clubs across a wide geographical area---once again as in Berlin. The vibrancy comes from a creative economy.
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That's the old Balfours factory site in the CBD isn't it?