Week 3...

This week I found out what group I was put in for my assignment. I was placed within the Urban Theme Group, the group I had chosen as my first preference.

The first things we did were to form groups of either 3 or 4 for the next assignment. As a number of friends were in this theme group, we quickly organised a group of 4 people before working on the scenario presented to the class which was the introduction of a congestion charge, similar to that in london (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge.)

Initial reactions were predictable, including the idea that Brisbane City, as we know it today will quickly become a ghost town with no real reason to visit. However, it was argued by the tutors that anything could potentially happen to create a world around it.


Some ideas were noted down

 

 

 

For example, to keep people within the CBD, public transport could be become more important and widely used, or parking could become cheaper. It turns out that when you need some form of reasoning, there is always the possibility to keep adding scenarios.

 

In a way this becomes like the evolving and increasing plotline of a book.