How to design a pandemic-proof city

Rather than focussing on short-term solutions like sanitiser dispensers or automated pedestrian crossings, University of South Australia’s architectural historian Julie Collins says we need to consider long-term urban planning solutions to keep people healthy and happy.

Five-star future

The first five-star hotel to be built in Adelaide in 30 years will begin construction in 2017, so CityMag cartoonist Ross Bateup turns his mind to ways we might keep the 250-room monolith full year-round.

Skating toward an inclusive future

It’s been a little more than a month since the City Skate Park on North Terrace was bid a final farewell. After much debate over its relocation, CityMag is still hopeful the eventual solution will integrate skate and BMX culture into the CBD, rather than locking it away in a corner.

City scales up and ticks over

Cartoonist Ross Bateup turns his pen toward two major changes for SA - wondering what will happen to the cottage-dwellers as the city grows skyward and taking a lighter look at the threat to our idiosyncratic half hour time zone.

Lazarus Le Cornu rises again

A sense of déjà vu was palpable in the city this week when new plans for the former Le Cornu site in North Adelaide were unveiled. Cartoonist Ross Bateup gives us his take on the land that has seen plenty of conversation, but very little action during its 25 vacant years.

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