I highly recommend this fascinating discussion on Alan Saunders’s By Design program:

Professor Paul Burton is working on an intriguing project – looking at the urbanisation of the Gold Coast in the way one would look at the characteristics of adolescence. So things like rapid growth, developing sexuality, growing analytical capacity and ego-centrism. And just as a city grows, it can die. Paul Burton is fascinating and provocative. Listen here.

Conversation: Adolescent cities and why the Gold Coast is one

One of the highlights to me was Prof. Burton’s comparison of the Gold Coast, an adolescent city, with Canberra, which was born middle-aged.

Meanwhile, Gold Coasters are hopeful about the recent drop in the Australian dollar:

Lower dollar a relief for Coast tourism