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Melbourne ranks as the World’s Most Liveable City. But does that tell us what people really love? Lovability is a new approach to city metrics.
Travelling to work can require as much water as you use at home.
Many factors have influenced population density change in Australian cities over the past 30 years. Melbourne has led the way in inner-city rebirth as a way to help manage future growth.
If the sharing economy is here to stay, planners and designers must respond with imagination to spread the positive effects of the tourism economy for the benefit of residents as well as tourists.
Businesses have traded on graffiti and the air of edginess that draws visitors to Melbourne’s laneways. But they draw the line at sharing space with the homeless, whose right to the city is denied.
Eye-tracking technology helps us understand how people interact with their environment. This can improve policy and design, but can also be a tool for surveillance and control.
Imagine cities competed to eliminate hunger, poverty, unemployment, crime and greenhouse emissions, and to offer housing and transport for all. Don’t scoff – urban planning was once an Olympic event.
It’s a project that creates benefits for Melbourne’s western suburbs and the state as a whole. But the inner-city elite don’t like it and recent experience suggests their opinion holds sway.
A citizens’ jury has been working to refresh the Future Melbourne strategy. It’s part of a broader shift from government decision-making for communities to decision-making with communities.
Bigger cities increase wages, output and innovation, but also problems of congestion and pollution. Congestion charges can minimise these problems by dramatically improving traffic flows.
With four weeks to go there is still much uncertainty in this election campaign. But, so far, the Greens would be pleased with their performance.
Feeding Melbourne generates over 900,000 tonnes of edible food waste every year, enough to feed more than 2 million people.
The Resilient Melbourne Strategy, adopted this month, marks a shift towards “whole-of-city” thinking.
Australia’s Smart Cities Plan largely conveys a limited role for people: they live, work and consume. This neglects the rich body of work calling for better human engagement in smart cities.
One person’s high density may be another’s sprawl; the same tall building may be experienced as oppressive or exhilarating; a “good crowd” for one can be “overcrowded” for another.
Victoria’s volcanic plains offer fertile ground for grasslands teeming with wildflowers. But that same fertility has also made the plains a tempting target for grazers and growers, and developers too.
Pro-bike policies can boost local business. In one Melbourne case study, the average hourly retail spending from six bikes was $97.20 compared to $27 from one car occupying an equivalent space.
Governance of metropolitan Melbourne is fragmented among 31 city councils. All levels of government need to work towards creating a metropolitan authority to meet the challenges of a growing city.
Some common misapprehensions remain about who needs affordable housing and how those needs might be met.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Housing Policy Researcher, Expert Advisor, Housing Assessment Resource Tools and Adjunct Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Researcher in sustainable food systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University
