How's the serenity? Chicago travel writer Peter Ferry says Adelaide is one of the world's best designed cities.Picture: Simon Cross Source: adelaidenow
SOMETIMES it takes a stranger to remind us of the many benefits of living in a our beautiful, easygoing city.
A major Chicago newspaper has written a glowing travel article about life in Adelaide, describing us as one of the world's best-designed cities.
"You can't design a city better than this one," Chicago Tribune contributor Peter Ferry wrote in an April 23 article in the paper's travel section.
"The city itself has wide streets laid out on a grid around pretty squares with handsome churches and buildings, such as St Peter's Cathedral, Parliament House, The Adelaide Festival Center on the banks of the river, the Adelaide Botanic Garden, The University of Adelaide looking like an Oxford college, and Central Market, a cornucopia of produce, cheeses, meats and wines."
Chicago, a lovely city but is it as good as Adelaide? US journalist Peter Ferry has written a glowing review of Adelaide, calling it one of the world's best designed cities. Pic Willy Schmidt USA / Travel
Ferry talks up Adelaide's "lovely beaches", Kangaroo Island and whale spotting between June and October.
But "the real genius" of the city, he says, is Colonel Light's Square Mile.
"Central Adelaide is surrounded by a broad, green belt of parks, gardens and playing fields.
"Green space is built around the city rather than the other way around. The pretty villages and suburbs only begin beyond it."
For most of the year, Adelaide, he says, is quiet "if quiet is what you want", apart from during festival season when things kick up a gear or two.
But despite Ferry's glowing write-up, it's unlikely Adelaide will be overrun by mid-western Americans any time soon.
Why? We're just too far away.
"It's remote even for Australians, sitting more than 900 miles (1450kms) west of Sydney on the southern coast.
"And for us it's the other side of the world."
Read Peter Ferry's article in full here (NOTE: This link was working earlier today but now appears to be blocked by the Chicago Tribune paywall)
Do you agree that Adelaide is one of the best-designed cities in the world? How effective are we at selling our tourism message to potential visitors? Leave a comment below
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