First Day: November … and the future … ?

Tassietimes departs from its normal practice on this, the first day of the month … to present Hobart’s future … ? For … off the back of a truck came these wondrous torn-in-two documents (located in a dumpster) indicating the future of Hobart’s skyline ( Mercury HERE: $250m hotel developments to change Hobart skyline ). Of course we just have to be like everywhere else in the world. Don’t we … ?

*Lindsay Tuffin has been a journo for nearly five decades all over Aus and Pomland …

• Steve Webber in Comments: Looking more and more like Darling harbour every day. How original!

• Christopher Eastman-Nagle in Comments: … the trouble with Hobart is that it is dwarfed by its landscape, as if one were plonking a city the size of Geelong into Sydney Harbour. It has so much space to spread itself around, high rise seems pointless; almost absurd. if you want high rise ‘views’, just build a bit further up Mount Wellington. One thing Hobartians could learn from Kiev is that you do not have to have a central CBD. The city works just as well if it is spread out. Hobart has potential prime and cheap commercial waterfront real estate to burn…. …