“Growth is the conversation Melburnians are having – or want to have,” wrote Gay Alcorn in her feature on the city’s uncertain future, which launched Guardian Cities’ Australian cities week. We received many more responses than we could feature, but each was read and appreciated, and may inform future commissions. The big cities of Melbourne and Sydney called me with (partially imagined) tantalising opportunities to remake myself and embrace a more vivid, cultured life. In my mid-20s, my shorthand for this was describing Melbourne as the European Australia and Sydney the London Australia. But looking at other cities in Australia, Melbourne and Sydney in particular, I’m not confident that it will be done well.

Source: The Guardian April 13, 2018 06:00 UTC