The Australian uglinessRobin Boyd
The Australian ugliness
by Robin Boyd · first published 1968
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Lewis Mumford maybe? Or Patrick Geddes? Town planning history and urban studies schools. Or Robin Boyd who wrote "the Australian Ugliness"
on “Ask HN: History of NIMBYism?” ↗…criticisms are roughly speaking true, though the quality issue is not one of them. Australians can achieve high levels of quality and precision when needed, but it depends on what's 'needed'. The book The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd from 1960, also describes a difficulty in Australians performing economic tasks like Art that are not strictly speaking useful or tasks which have risks outside the normal business mode.…
on “Australia ranked 61/63 countries for entrepreneurship” ↗