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September 17, 2008
When I'm in Canberra I yearn to go to Melbourne to take photographs. I find Canberra's CBD ---known as Civic--- shabby and tired. There are few buildings of any architectural merit---the Sydney and Melbourne buildings come to mind, but they were built 70 years ago. Civic centre has been given over to bleak malls that are dead public spaces--- and private shopping malls that are private spaces.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, wall, Higson lane, Melbourne CBD, 2008
Though Canberra is Australia's capital city built to a plan it is looking in need of some rejuvenation that goes beyond that of a city given over to private developers. It is unclear whether Canberra has a vision of itself as an urban centre. Whatever vision it did have seems to have been lost.
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