The use of descriptive prose by a planning dept
Posted by: DAVOhorn on 22 December 2008
Dear All,
Here on the North Shore in Sydney all hell is breaking loose as the planning dept is trying to persuade the residents that 5000 new dwellings in blocks of units/appartments is what is needed.
So here we go:
Gordon where i live:
Shopping in the trees in a VIBRANT NEW TOWN CENTRE that is sheltered from noise and pollution with a view across the tree tops of Gordon, this means tightly packed developments of 5 and 6 storey appartment blocks and a 8-15 storey shopping/retail/commercial/residential buildings..
Lindfield:
A moulded soft landscape with a public square that is MORE INTIMATE, MORE ENCLOSED.
Roseville:
An exploration of passive design and density within a hybrid building framework. Its porous and permeable form, with pathways for breezes and sun, perfectly complements the bushland setting of Kuringai.
Pymble:
transform Pymble from the dead end model of house / suburbia into a fine grain hybrid development providing mutually supportive co- existence in a HETEROGENEROUS URBANITY, with a concomitant broadening of the public domain.
So for those of you versed in CORPORATE SPEAK can you please translate this load of testicles for idiots like me who fail to understand this tosh.
Oh yeah O Level English leads me to believe that Urbanity is derived from URBANE and not URBAN.
So the future looks bright for the residents who live in their comfortable dead end model homes and live in currently delightful dead end model of suburbia. And have no wish to sell up and move into fine grain hybrid developments. ie blocks of appartments.
Also why do all these Architecturally designed developments look like what a five year old would build with lego bricks. All these buildings being built use the wonderful material POURED CONCRETE which is usually painted a fetching shade of GREY.
OH well Ho HUM.
regards David
ps the house i am living in is ear marked for the building of 56 units within 5 years. Lucky neighbours, oh well there are already 150 units being built and about to be built on my road so another 50 will not spoil the road.
Here on the North Shore in Sydney all hell is breaking loose as the planning dept is trying to persuade the residents that 5000 new dwellings in blocks of units/appartments is what is needed.
So here we go:
Gordon where i live:
Shopping in the trees in a VIBRANT NEW TOWN CENTRE that is sheltered from noise and pollution with a view across the tree tops of Gordon, this means tightly packed developments of 5 and 6 storey appartment blocks and a 8-15 storey shopping/retail/commercial/residential buildings..
Lindfield:
A moulded soft landscape with a public square that is MORE INTIMATE, MORE ENCLOSED.
Roseville:
An exploration of passive design and density within a hybrid building framework. Its porous and permeable form, with pathways for breezes and sun, perfectly complements the bushland setting of Kuringai.
Pymble:
transform Pymble from the dead end model of house / suburbia into a fine grain hybrid development providing mutually supportive co- existence in a HETEROGENEROUS URBANITY, with a concomitant broadening of the public domain.
So for those of you versed in CORPORATE SPEAK can you please translate this load of testicles for idiots like me who fail to understand this tosh.
Oh yeah O Level English leads me to believe that Urbanity is derived from URBANE and not URBAN.
So the future looks bright for the residents who live in their comfortable dead end model homes and live in currently delightful dead end model of suburbia. And have no wish to sell up and move into fine grain hybrid developments. ie blocks of appartments.
Also why do all these Architecturally designed developments look like what a five year old would build with lego bricks. All these buildings being built use the wonderful material POURED CONCRETE which is usually painted a fetching shade of GREY.
OH well Ho HUM.
regards David
ps the house i am living in is ear marked for the building of 56 units within 5 years. Lucky neighbours, oh well there are already 150 units being built and about to be built on my road so another 50 will not spoil the road.