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Carter / Cool and how to get it

CHIEF Minister Andrew Barr wants to steal Wellington’s crown as the world’s “coolest little capital”. So, how do we do it?

Catherine Carter.We’ve got pockets of cool – from the hipster vibe of Lonsdale Street to the sophistication of NewActon; places that have their own character that can’t necessarily be replicated. How do we help other areas create something new?

Currently, our city’s buzz is all around the edges – from ANU Exchange in the west to the Canberra Centre in the east. In the middle is what some people call the “dead zone”.

Architect Alastair MacCallum, who has worked on many interesting projects around Canberra, including the adaptive reuse of Juliana House in Woden, says: “Good things are happening in Canberra – but it’s how we link those things together that presents the challenge”.

Alastair is right. Canberra is the same geographic size as Barcelona – with just a fraction of the population. Making use of our limited resources requires creativity and innovation.

Our 15.7 per cent office vacancy rate doesn’t help. When people aren’t occupying those buildings there’s fewer people spending their $10 a day on coffees and lunches. These offices could become apartments, hotels, artists’ workshops, performance spaces – anything that breathes new life into the CBD.

Another acclaimed architect Nathan Judd, who recently worked on Braddon’s Ori building, points out that everyone is talking about Lonsdale Street, but not Mort Street. Why?

“Because both sides of the street are playing together,” he says.

And “playing together” is the key. We need government, industry and the community to work together to make Canberra a cool capital. We already have a world-beater in NewActon’s Nishi building, which was recently named International Project of the Year at the 2015 Building Awards in London.

We know how to do cool – we just need to get on with it.

 

 

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One Response to Carter / Cool and how to get it

Janet Hartwick says: 18 November 2015 at 5:08 pm

Life in positive choices learning to make good choices doing what one is choosing to do in education and work that does not cause rebellion is life fulfilling positive behavior. People are free from becoming unwilling customers to mathematically negative incorrect living. People are customers to their needs met. Life on the positive side of zero is good life. People who are making a living on other people being in the negative need alternate sources of income.

Being too full to eat or drink is weight loss when the blood stream is filled with nutrients gained by low calorie foods with water and low calorie drinks causing being unable to eat another bite, unless of course calories have been placed on the body another way than personal consumption as in someone’s liposuction was placed in the body.

Multiple choices in one’s stage of development human development science customer development business ethics business development human resources pollution solution hospitality meets needs.

How is the industry of phychiatry responding to happy childhood mathematical results by measuring people? Is positive thought positive psychology offered? Mathematically Positive Thought is Mentally Healthy Thought.

Education is mathematically accurate.

Mathematically Positive True Teachings Positive Healthy Clean Living Positive Though Positive Habits Positive Song Positive Behavior Business Development Education Human Resources Pollution Solution Web Business Development is quality life. Teachers fill life with positive words. Jesus Christ said, ” I am the word. ” Community Church is for the people, not the people for the church mathematically negative incorrect profits. Quoting a homes and gardens magazine, ” The best way to quit a bad habit is to substitute it with a good habit. ” Making a living on good habits is mathematically accurate legal. The negative is extincted by redirecting to the positive. When teen girls got together we entertained ourselves with positive conversation in many subjects. One time one of the girls suggested we see how long we could talk about the same subject. The girls were successful in staying in the same subject of conversation for most of the length of time we were together for our event. When I was a very young teen when my teacher asked me what I would do if a negative subject was imposed I replied, “Change the subject.”

When the water turned cold in the shower whenever the hot water in the kitchen sink may have been tuned on during my ten minute freshening up and clean cloths, a practice we all learned in Gym class, I knew the occurance of the water turning cold was connected to psychiatrist Doctor Hamm having just moved in next door. Perhaps because I daily kept a close check on my own mental wellness, and knew nothing but mental wellness, I did not at the time know that Doctor Hamm had caused the water in the shower to turn cold for the purpose of drumming up pychiatry business. What else has Doctor Hamm had done for the purpose of drumming up psychiatry business? I recall having shouted an apology to the person whoever it was in the shower one time when I tuned the hot water in the kitchen sink on then remembering quickly tuning the water in the kitchen sink off. In what ways has getting out of doing any work meddled with society so that society serves those that are getting out of doing any work? The same ones that forcefully tell people to control behavior by taking away have no limmit to what they do to others in order to get what they want. Already doing right human developed children are who the children are, good children. Caring about people causes less work. Societies that play are healthy societies. What is the honestly percent in currency? Who a person is in human development and who a person appears to be are one in the same.

Thank you. Janet Hartwick

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