I got *so angry* when John Howard was talking about urban sprawl the other day:
"I think we do have to be willing to see an even greater urban sprawl, of course we do," Howard said. "Deep down the desire of young Australians still when they have children is to have a back yard. I'm a great believer in that old Australian ideal of having a back yard for your children to run around in and that is what the young of Australia now want and we have to find a way of accommodating that."
What about people who need to be close to hospitals/schools? People without a car? Low-income people who need affordable inner-city housing so they can get to their jobs (or would he rather that Sydney end up like London, where some suburbs simply cannot get cleaners because people doing cleaning jobs cannot *afford* to live within a decent commute of some suburbs)? What about the cost of building infrastructure for the new suburbs - libraries, primary schools, hospitals, Post Offices and so on? What about the cost of public transport? What about the cost to the environment - all those backyards Howard endorses consume a lot of water.
Urban sprawl
I got *so angry* when John Howard was talking about urban sprawl the other day:
"I think we do have to be willing to see an even greater urban sprawl, of course we do," Howard said. "Deep down the desire of young Australians still when they have children is to have a back yard. I'm a great believer in that old Australian ideal of having a back yard for your children to run around in and that is what the young of Australia now want and we have to find a way of accommodating that."
What about people who need to be close to hospitals/schools? People without a car? Low-income people who need affordable inner-city housing so they can get to their jobs (or would he rather that Sydney end up like London, where some suburbs simply cannot get cleaners because people doing cleaning jobs cannot *afford* to live within a decent commute of some suburbs)? What about the cost of building infrastructure for the new suburbs - libraries, primary schools, hospitals, Post Offices and so on? What about the cost of public transport? What about the cost to the environment - all those backyards Howard endorses consume a lot of water.