[LINK] Slow Smart Cities

[Marghanita da Cruz]

On 3/7/20 9:09 am, Tom Worthington wrote:

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> ps: Perhaps real smart cities take two or three decades. In 2002 I was 
> invited to talk to students from the German "new" Bauhaus design 
> school in Sydney on the role of ICT in urban development. The students 
> produced a plan for redevelopment of the area around an old power 
> station, now known as the Pays Precinct. With a Sydney Metro West 
> station expected to open in 2030, something might finally be built. 
> https://blog.tomw.net.au/2015/10/sydney-silicon-harbor-proposal.html

Perhaps  freudian slip but it is actually the "Bays Precinct". There was 
some excitement that Google might move there but that soon vanished when 
it was pointed out there was no public transport.

Hopefully, the Bays Precinct will be accessible by both Light Rail and 
Metro West. Though sadly the westconnex rozelle interchange and western 
harbour tunnel tollways seemed to have been the only major development 
in the vicinity to date.

There is hope that the Glebe Island bridge could provide walking and 
cycling infrastructure in the same way as the Pyrmont bridge does into 
the city over darling harbour.

Shore power for the White Bay Cruise Terminal is also long overdue but 
now will only cost 7.5million as an add on to the metro works.

Pre-covid 19 - Low Carbon was the fashion - ofcourse now people are 
working where they live which is bad news for the CBD models.

More about the Bays Precince station at 
https://www.sydneymetro.info/station/bays-station

Marghanita

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