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  "I like to be on the edge of possible" - remarked Jorn Utzon, who designed perhaps the most iconic landmark of Australia - The Sydney Opera House. Opera House is a wonderful  testament to another of Utzon's quotes -  The architect's gift to society is to bring joy to the people from the surroundings he creates." . True to that, just like other global landmarks, the Opera House brings in various groups of artists round the year and bring tremendous joy to the people.   Harbour Bridge from Opera House  Indeed, the Opera House and the associated stories made me think about the limitations of traditional assessment models of urban infrastructure. Apparently the initial estimate of Opera house was $7 Million (back in 1959) and it took about $102 million by the time it completed. All Government officials would have been shit-scared to approve such a project and approve the cost escalations of about 14 times. How can someone foresee such a success and value add ...

"Melbourne & Sydney are sisters, but Sydney is the prettier one ..So she's always been more overtly beautiful, she's got the Harbour, the bridge, she's got Bondi, the good weather – but because of that she's never had to really work on her personality. So her bars, her restaurants, her coffee – not great. But she's so overtly beautiful that people will keep going back anyway" Melbourne Street Art -1 " Melbourne is the less overtly attractive sister, she's still beautiful but in her own subtle way. So we don't have the Harbour, we have a body of water, and it's pretty at night and sunset but you've gotta look a little bit harder to appreciate it, so we've had to work on our personality, " So we have the best coffee, the best restaurants, rooftop bars, festivals – we're even fun when it rains... Because we can't fall back on our looks – we're not the overtly attractive sister here – so we've had to get such ...