Your pictures really give the impression that Australia's major cities have maintained a good balance between historic preservation and the shiny and new. Was that your impression? If so, isn't that truly one of the hallmarks of the best urban areas?
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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