'Re-wilding' our cities' lost waterways
The announcement of the upcoming symposium on Perth's 'lost lakes' - 'a 200 year history of infill, paving, draining, damming, over-building, covering and erasure', set my mind whirring. It made me think of the lost lagoons of my home-town, Palmerston North - once the food-baskets of Rangitane, and of course the buried streams of Christchurch, which reasserted themselves in the Canterbury earthquakes, destabilising the ground they had been buried under, with tragic conseque