Article: Qld: The rise and rise of the Gold Coast


AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2005
Qld: The rise and rise of the Gold Coast

By Chris Herde

BRISBANE, Dec 7 AAP - Love it or hate it - the Gold Coast is always hard to ignore.

The mix of rampant development, tourism, fast money and sun, surf and sand has created
a cast of memorable characters and tales.

And it is a story which has been told in a new book Passion, Power and Prejudice by
a man who has been at the sharp end of the city as a master planner and development industry
consultant for almost 40 years.

Geoff Burchill, 67, relates in a weighty tome of 680 pages the highs and lows of Gold
Coast development which tells of the movers and shakers, the visionaries and critics.

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