Leadership and Oceans
To be in Washington D C is to be surrounded by monumental monuments and stories of leadership. This week a monument of the living kind was created when President Obama used his exe
Emerald Necklace
The Emerald Necklace describes a network of parks in Boston designed by the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1870s. The design resolved the combined pressures
Botanic Garden
New York Botanical Garden Where to begin? These gardens are so vast and various. They are also impossibly green to an Australian eye. Perhaps at the station. Imagine a station not
Riding a bike
‘By many measures, bicycles are as sweet an invention as humankind has ever known’ (Eric W Sanderson, author of Mannahatta) Bikes are a big topic. I have waited a while befor
Waterfront
Foreshore improvement has been an ongoing preoccupation in Port Melbourne for at least the last 25 years. Port Phillip Council continues to involve the community in thinking of way
Words
from a visit to New York ‘…one ought every day to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words. (Pa
Ellis Island
Port Melbourne’s Station and Princes Piers were the entry point for Victoria’s post war migrants. Ellis Island has often been raised as a reference point for how the story of
Green Streets
Rob Adams, at Future Melbourne Network’s ‘A Cool Future for a Hot Melbourne’ spoke of ‘stealing bitumen’ to turn redundant road space into places for people. The closure
Housing Affordability
Sunday. Read the New York Times and find two articles relevant to housing affordability and Fishermans Bend. The first concerned young people and student debt: ‘For young peopl
Piers
Station and Princes Piers are part of the history and identity of Port Melbourne. The Chelsea Piers were constructed in the same era as Princes Pier in the energetic term of Mayor