Where are all the people? Its a question I find myself asking so much of late. The only time I seem to see people in this city is on my lunchbreak when everyone has a reason to be on the street at the same time. Otherwise there is a rush before and after work of determined commuters furiously fighting to get into their cars to beat traffic but that's kind of it. I rode home tonight from the office at 6:30 and the streets were all but empty. Its actually a bit disturbing. Kind of like everyone has heard on the news that there are rampaging monkeys (or orrangutangs as is more the case in Adelaide) on the loose and I was the only one that didn't hear the message not to leave my building. If this ever were the case, I would blame the advertiser. I don't know how, but I'm sure it would be their fault.
Anyway, I just wanted to start by posting a link to one of the better sites I have stumbled on recently. I rate their excellent content. Maybe Mike Rann and Harbo could read some of the articles about cities that are doing great things. See, I'm trying to be more positive today.
http://www.urbanism.org/
I'm also time permiting, going to develop some ideas I've had for making this town more wicked. As I was alluding to in my first post, this isn't a big city but if we could cull the small town mentality and embrace some well directed recklessness in thought we could probably do some cool stuff. Maybe I can even get AdelaideNow to run one of my ideas.....
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