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Cluster 26 of 28. Ideas 476 to 485

The cities, one idea each

Trincomalee hub

The mechanism

Every city has one thing it could be known for, and each is currently known for nothing in particular.

The 10 ideas

  • 476Colombo: a night market on the Galle Face green run to a standard, every weekend
  • 477Colombo: the Pettah as a managed market street, cleaned, lit and sold to visitors as the best bazaar in Asia
  • 478Kandy: the lake promenade with cafés and evening performances, not only the temple
  • 479Galle: a residents' company that owns the Fort's tourist lets and keeps the residents in
  • 480Jaffna: a culinary capital, the crab and the palmyrah sold as a cuisine
  • 481Trincomalee: the harbour as a sailing and diving centre for the Bay of Bengal
  • 482Negombo: the fish market and the canals as Sri Lanka's Venice, done before the residents leave
  • 483Nuwara Eliya: a cool-climate wellness and tea town, not a faded hill station
  • 484Anuradhapura: a pilgrim city with lodging, food and interpretation to match its sacredness
  • 485Hambantota: an industrial estate for the processors in this list

In the book

  • Ch. SeventeenOne Building
    One building, and what a city could be known for

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The four rules

Not sure which?

Six questions and the Idea Finder picks ten of the 500 that fit your life.

Find the ideas that fit me
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WHY NOT SRI LANKA?

Five hundred places to start, one page each, from the appendix of the book by Dr Maheshika Halbeisen. Every idea passes one test: does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

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