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The potential for a high-order urban outcome has been compromised because a stadium, which needs spaciousness and networks to properly operate, has been predestined to a location that cannot yield those requirements, writes Mat Hinds.
Whether or not the Tasmanian government’s widely condemned, extravagantly costly plan for a Macquarie Point stadium comes to pass, it has exposed something deeply wrong with how the state treats its urban fabric.
The proposal for an AFL-stipulated stadium at Macquarie Point is the largest urban proposition in Tasmania’s history. On the weakening assumption that the projected cost can even be afforded by Tasmanians, the question of where the stadium is to be built, and how it is enabling, and enabled by the urban condition of Nipaluna/Hobart, demands unimpeachable resolution.