Dec 14, 2007Quickie Link: Sydney's New Plan to Save Oxford Street
By vanrozenheim
(Australia) - The City of Sydney is planning to give Oxford Street back to Gays, artists and older people after endorsing a new cultural strategy for the strip and its surrounding area this week. New branding around Taylor Square to reinforce the Gay and Lesbian cultural heritage and ownership of the area was one recommendation of the report by Urban Cultures Ltd's Dr John Montgomery. He also called for GLBTQ organisations lost to the inner-west to be returned and co-located in a building in the precinct. "As many of the area's distinctive characteristics result from its association with the GLBTQ communities, the report supports reinforcing that connection," Lord Mayor Clover Moore said.
