Comments on: Creative Initiative: 2009 Hunter Valley Research Foundation Lecture

By: Daniel Medence

Daniel Medence — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:26:11 +0000

After I read your post I think I know what you are feel.
I live in Hungary in a city. Once it was one of the best city but nowadays many thing changed.

Just to add a story that happend in this year:

There is a main road which cross the city. In the center of the city there were big improvements.
One side of this road two new and beautiful building was build. One of them is a concert hall the other one is a library.

When VIP came to see these new buildings the city leadreship needed to hide the houses in front of these building.
The reason why is because they were ugly. Much wors than the images you show in this post.

I hope in the future they will be renovated.

By: Games

Games — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:38:49 +0000

Not sure if you’re still taking comments on here, but I really like the way you stand up for Newcastle. My girlfriend was there and she really liked it. Have things improved?

By: Renew Newcastle on the blogs at Reuters, The Atlantic and the BBC

Renew Newcastle on the blogs at Reuters, The Atlantic and the BBC — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:32:30 +0000

[...] The HVRF talk i gave last week has garnered a lot of attention for its analysis and response to th… In the contexts in which i find myself talking about Renew Newcastle the economic issues are rarely discussed or analysed. Given the interest i really need to take the time to flesh that out a lot more explicitly. Unfortunately i’m mentally between about 10 different deadlines and physically between Melbourne, Sydney and Perth so it may have to wait. [...]

By: TIME is on my side (and WIRED too)

TIME is on my side (and WIRED too) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:01:29 +0000

[...] His article has a few quotes from the more economics centric slabs of my Hunter Valley Research Foundation lecture last week. [...]

By: Market failure in commercial real estate in New York and in Newcastle, NSW - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:34:38 +0000

[...] not just the Upper West Side. Sometime Curious Capitalist commenter Marcus reports (in a lecture he gave last week) of trying to rent some commercial space in the depressed and vacancy-plagued central business [...]

By: Initiativism

Initiativism — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:03:52 +0000

[...] using the work “initiativist” recently to define my philosophical approach to culture. I used the term in my lecture in Newcastle the other night and attempted to sneak it into my column in The Age this week but it was removed by an overzealous [...]

By: Before and After Photos: Renew Newcastle

Before and After Photos: Renew Newcastle — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:02:15 +0000

[...] picture is worth a thousand words. Following on from The Hunter Valley Research Foundation lecture, i showed some slides of the before and after results in some of the Renew Newcastle [...]

By: jason

jason — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:18:53 +0000

I went to Newcastle a few days ago as a result of your blog and “Not Quite Art”. I loved the place. I think it is still one of those “undiscovered places” in Australia. With time it will boom.

By: Judith Merryweather

Judith Merryweather — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:19:11 +0000

I was there and commend you for your initiative. I too left Newcastle for many years in search of “more”. Since returning to live in this great area, I feel proud to show our many visitors from all around the world – we just make sure that we don’t drive them down Hunter Street! Hopefully that can change in the near future! Well done!

By: Rachel O'Reilly

Rachel O'Reilly — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:07:27 +0000

clapping loudly from a great distance. x