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A carregar... Perth (The City Series)por David Whish-Wilson
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Dispelling some of the more unflattering stereotypes of Perth, acclaimed author and Perth native David Whish-Wilson describes how the city strikes a perfect harmony with its own eccentricities and contradictions, presenting a place of surprising beauty-of brilliant light and sand-swept peace-where deeper historical currents nevertheless lurk beneath the surface. This examination looks beyond the shiny glass facades and boosterish talk of mining booms to get at the richness of the natural world and the trailblazers, rebels, o Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The book is also influenced by the author's current preoccupation with his family:
That expansiveness is in part due to Perth being 'one of the most sprawled (120km long) cities on earth.' It's a city very dependent on cars, and it's a bit startling to read that
It's disconcerting to read about their rates of homelessness too, not that Melbourne has anything to be proud of on that issue either...
Another issue that would be interesting to contrast with Melbourne has to do with the obsession with sport:
I wonder if that's true of Melbourne too? The area where I live has countless sporting grounds, and our local council (like most others, probably) spends a vast amount of ratepayers' money maintaining them and building infrastructure like stadiums, changing rooms, watering-systems and carparks, and as far as I can tell, there are never any complaints about this expenditure. Indeed, when it comes to voting for community grants, sporting projects win every time over anything else. As in Perth (with the exception of the golf courses because the wealthy play golf whenever they like) the majority of these sportsgrounds are play places for dogs during the week. But they are certainly used at weekends. Woe betide any pooch that strays onto a match in progress!
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/07/19/perth-new-south-city-series-8-by-david-whish... ( )