Posts by Jack Harrison
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
You can't engineer society because we are still discovering it. We need to accept the revelation of ourselves first.
Civil engineering is just maths and known science. Actually it's ace. We are clever homo sapiens.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to nzlemming,
A population of a billion people who are through , excellent economics are in a position to take very reasonable stakes in our little open capitalist market.
It’s not yellow peril, it’s just an awakening to the financial power of that region. Thank American bankers for screwing their money supply. The global economic crisis was a western collapse and a pathetic recovery fueled by an inability to get the rich to release/trickle down funds after a record 9 years of gdp growth. It’s economics. Shit, if I was a capitalised Chinese investor we look like sweet tomatoes. Also China has a massive economic advantage, no Labour Party
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
Auckland would be fucked without a University. Surely the city deserves some dignities.
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White knock out- digital colour half page - big money.
Small ad in paper - black and white matchbox size - no money.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
Social housing (towers)in western Europe and America historically always looked good for the first five years but they need to be managed well or they become towers of cheap shitty living.
The most obvious way is to have great apartments but we need these experiments to happen inner-city first .
That is the safest way to start the house tower building of Auckland. Get them built right and to calm the inner city madness of central city living desire, make it real for those who crave or need the inner-city. If it works tell the suburbs.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
They are mentioned, but always as authorities. They are salesman. They live off commission.
Also newpapers love a bull market too, massive full colour ad booklets that are sometimes bigger than the average paper.
That is good money. Big colour ads are the big earners in print, ask any ad salesman. It’s a rort of sorts.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Steve Barnes,
It's just business. Epsom is a fucking beautiful place to live. It's a great suburb. It's Aucklands most convenient and efficient real estate, and more towerblock kids get to go to Grammar and get a gud education.A win-win for the market.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
Because I don't greet the Auckland expansion as an optimist. I think we are in for some chaotic expansive times in this city. I believe it has been driven by harsh economic forces and I believe those who voted for an expansion of the city should also be prepared for the new premises of the expansion. West Auckland is too beautiful to put towers in and they don't have enough jobs locally. Move a ministry or two to west Auckland and start some commerce.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
epaulettes
I had to look that word up.
No, its just civics. It’s maths, science in a way. So you can move to your workplace without leaving too many suburbs. I didn’t design Auckland. It’s a study of the civic structure, which is what this post is about. Auckland is big-sizing fast.
It’s a big issue. Having a home. Suburbs are filling up too, I agree. It’s filling up,hence the crazy market for houses. -
Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
We need to house Auckland. Apartments are the way. We are now a metro. The CBD is naturally going to be a hub, that's civics.