"Wake up and smell the coffee: these days, cafes are the new backyards... And with Sydney becoming an increasingly high-rise city, with more apartments being built with cafes and restaurants underneath, it seems a good time to take stock...
"I think it's really the way to go," says Chris Johnson, the executive director for urban renewal at the NSW Planning Department. "Apartments are changing the way we live. Instead of using the kitchen and dining room in our own houses, we're using the broader precinct outside as part of the home.
"We have breakfast downstairs, lunch around the corner, dinner close by and then meet up for coffee underneath," Johnson says. "It's a totally new style of how we live."...
W: http://www.smh.com.au/news/property/lawn-or-latte/2006/05/12/1146940713204.html
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