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Philip Thalis
@PhilipThalis
Architect, urbanist, public advocate. Principal @HillThalisAUP co author #PublicSydney. Prof Practice UNSW. ex Sydney Independent Councillor Rtwts X endorsed
Aug 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Reminder that Sydney was a great Public Transport city;
1. to 1950, 205 train stations serving population of 1.69mill over urban area of 800km2. Plus 350km tram system, multiple interchanges, myriad stops.
Sydney owes its form & functioning to Govt foresight & $ in this period🧵 Image 2; up to 2015, 44 of 205 train stations removed, despite huge population growth & expansion of urban area.
Plus 350km tram system & it’s infrastructure scrapped.
Shows huge disinvestment in public transport in post war period-all stations removed were in Western Sydney Image
Jun 12, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Vale mum
What a remarkable life you have had, full of adversity, determination, achievement & dedication.
A personal journey through so many of the defining passages of C20th
Born Paris September 1920
Died Sydney June 2022 Born in Paris in tail end of Spanish Flu epidemic, only child of a French mother & expat Greek father. In an apartment on Blvd Victor Emmanuel (tellingly renamed Franklin Roosevelt after WW2).
Flamboyant father treated grandmothers to Folies Bergères