Jonathan Sriranganathan, The Greens candidate for Mayor in the coming Brisbane City Council fleshes out his vision and prospects in the election.
Category: City Council
Mount Coot-tha Protection Alliance illuminates lack of community consultation over light show approval.
The Mount Coot-tha Protection Alliance (MCPA) has expressed strong disappointment with the Council’s decision to approve the Lumina light show at Brisbane Botanical Gardens, citing a flawed consultation process. On 28 July, 2023, Brisbane City Council approved an application from the private company LightDreaming to establish a permanent light show in Brisbane’s Botanical Gardens at Mount Coot-tha….
The Great Urban Crimes that We Permit by Law – fifty years later.
Fifty years ago, in 1972, urban planner and architect, Constantinos Doxiadis, presented a paper to the World Conference on World Peace Through Law titled, The Great Urban Crimes that We Permit by Law. In his paper, Doxiadis focussed on what he terms two great crimes (he says there are more), “which I am convinced create the…