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Councillors quash Hobart’s Windy City plans

ABC / Tuesday, 28 July 2009

A controversial plan to put 11-metre high wind turbines on top of an inner-city Hobart building has been quashed by local councillors, although it was claimed the wind turbines would drop the power bill by 10%.

Ride to work day: pedalling some pictures

Crikey / Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Today is national Ride To Work day. Eleri Harris did.

Hobart’s chance to lead the world in civic imagination

Crikey / Monday, 24 September 2007

For architecture tragics the destruction of the Myer building in Hobart is a disaster. Yet its absence raises the question as to what is to be done with key urban sites like this. Are they simply to be left to the developers to plonk something down, or should a city have a say?