Heritage listing for Canberra?

^^ Ooo how magical (sarcasticly)

Canberra isn’t very unique with restaurants.

I think we should market a 3 day weekend restaurant tour – a different region for each day.
Asian one day (Dickson and any other good ones), African the next and European to end. Yum!

Probably not in their hoards Seepi, but they’re an identifyable market segment as far as tourism industry straegists are concerned – and the bit they like most about them is the fact that they fall near the top end of the spend spectrum.

I don’t think tourists come here for the planned city.

I think if we have a mature approach and ditch the OMG bullSh!t factor in an attempt to try and not look like complete dipsh!ts, it’s not actually that much of a big thing, and there is the tourism potential associated with cashed up visitors coming here expecting to experience an example of a planned 20th Century political capital city based around a WBG design.

My god this is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard of. Aside from the ‘age’ factor of all, why would anyone want to heritage list Canberra? Imagine this city being ‘Internationaly heritaged’ people will expect an amazing historic city, but all they will find is crappy suburbia, lots of porn stores in fyshwick and a CBD full of 70’s-80’s crappy buildings, oh and perhaps a artificial lake.

Moral of the story is that it will never work.

If the ACT government is trying to use this to draw people in,
It would probably do opposite, because of the increased hurdles for future development.

So if this happens, I will definatly ditch this city.

How old somthing is isn’t always a consideration in determining its heritage value – it might be useful to look at the relevant heritage legislation and associated criteria which concentrates on things like rarity, representativeness, association and/or value to the community or parts of the community.

Besides, while the press coverage would like yo have us believe the intent is to cover all ov Canberra, the reality is more likely to mean listing of Commonwealth managed lands associated with the original WBG design and its evolution.

Must have been a quite news week.

If the ACT makes a case based on, say, the unspoilt beauty of the Kambah shops carpark, it cannot lose.

“They” should Heritage-List the Woden Bus Interchange !

I’ve seen Canberra and aside from some nice architecture in the Parliamentary Triangle and the Science Dome, very little is heritage worthy. When you look at the much older cities of Melbourne, Sydney, heck even smaller centers like Geelong, they have much more that is deserving of heritage listing.