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July 7, 2009
Adelaide is the urban 'canary in the coalmine' for climate change in Australia. As the climate gets hotter, drier and more variable, Adelaide as city will need to modify it's habits and become more radical and smarter. How is this to happen?
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Brecknock Hotel (1851), Adelaide, 2009
The Rann Government released its 30-year plan for greater Adelaide---Planning the Adelaide we want yesterday. This assumes population growth of 560,000 people, aims to overcome the focus on cars by fast-tracking denser living around designated "green transport corridors" (transit-oriented development), limits new development outside the city from 50 per cent now to 30 per cent, creates walkable neighbourhoods, and expands the network of parks and greenways to encourage walking and cycling and to provide more shade to urban areas.
It sounds good doesn't it.
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It sounds good and possibly is good but where are the plans for water conservation,recycling and capture for councils and individuals?Solar provision? Looks pretty around the edges but doesit have substance?