Recently David Malouf commented of the Brisbane he recreated in Johnno: “It is a sobering thing, at just thirty, to have outlived the landmarks of one’s youth. And to have seen them go, not in some violent cataclysm … but in the way of our generation, by Council ordinance and by-law … and land deals; in the name of order and progress, and in contempt of all that is untidily shabby and individual …” (Weekend Australian, September 8-9) In the memoir of Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories of a City, he laments the changes that overtook his home city…