2024-04-05 RGSQ Reply to Dr Buch. Understanding Differences and Perspective

2024-04-05 RGSQ Reply to Dr Buch

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6 April 2024

Dr Neville Buch

18 Callendar Street

Sunnybank Hills Q 4109

[email protected]

Dear Dr Buch

Thank you for providing feedback on the forum, A Housing Crisis – Queensland Perspectives, organized by our Society and the University of Queensland School of the Environment. I’m sorry for the delay in replying to your letter. Our President has been unable to be contacted for the last week or so.

Personally, I did not interpret Rachel Gallagher’s remark as indicating she was unconcerned about demolishing post-1940s buildings of significant heritage value to make way for medium-density housing. Certainly, that is not the Society’s view. In the past, we owned two heritage-listed buildings until the upkeep became too much for a small non-profit organization to afford.

It is a difficult balancing act – preserving character neighbourhoods while increasing the density of our cities to sustainably cater for growing populations. It is understandable that people bring varying perspectives to this issue. Rachel’s perspective as an urban geographer interested in inclusive and equitable spaces is likely to be different from an historian’s perspective.

The format of the event enabled people to challenge the presenters and put forward alternate views.

Yours sincerely

Kathryn Berg

Secretary

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Indeed, there are different perspectives among planners and sociologists from an historian’s perspective, but the difference is nonsense if it is the prejudice of “so different as the existence within a bubble thinking and having no bearing in multidisciplinary education.”

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.

Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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