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    Planning Melbourne : lessons for a sustainable city / Michael Buxton, Robin Goodman and Susie Moloney.

    • Title:Planning Melbourne : lessons for a sustainable city / Michael Buxton, Robin Goodman and Susie Moloney.
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    • Author/Creator:Buxton, Michael, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Goodman, Robin, author.
      Moloney, Susie, author.
    • Published/Created:Clayton South, VIC, Australia : CSIRO Publishing, [2016]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
      Sustainable urban development--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
      Urban policy--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
    • Description:vii, 182 pages ; 25 cm
    • Summary:Planning Melbourne reflects on planning since the post-war era, but focuses in particular on the past two decades and the ways that key government policies and influential individuals and groups have shaped the city during this time. The book examines past debates and policies, the choices planners have faced and the mistakes and sound decisions that have been made. Current issues are also addressed, including housing affordability, transport choices, protection of green areas and heritage, and urban consolidation. If Melbourne's identity is to be shaped as a prospering, socially integrated and environmentally sustainable city, a new approach to governance and spatial planning is needed and this book provides a call to action.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780643104723 paperback
      0643104720 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. City growth, sustainability and planning
      Introduction
      Why study Melbourne?
      Population growth pressures
      Is Melbourne the world's most liveable city?
      What type of city do we want?
      importance of planning for Melbourne's future
      Overview of the chapters
      2. State-led planning in 20th-century Melbourne
      early development of Melbourne
      beginnings of 20th-century planning: the 1929 plan
      Post-war planning: the suburbanisation of Melbourne
      Hamer to Cain: years of continuity in metropolitan planning
      3. emergence of a neoliberal era in planning
      1987: shaping Melbourne's future - Cain government
      Neoliberalisation in Victoria: `there is no alternative'
      Market-led planning and the planner as development facilitator
      Planning in crisis
      legacy: from state-led planning to market-led development
      4. Aspirational planning in the 2000s
      Managing growth: Melbourne 2030
      Plan Melbourne 2014
      5. Housing provision and affordability in Melbourne
      increasingly divided city
      situation for renters
      Measuring housing affordability stress
      What is causing the problem?
      Are planning charges to blame?
      Are planning policies to blame?
      role of immigration and foreign investment
      What do people want?
      Housing affordability and purchase costs
      What can planning policy do to deliver affordable housing?
      integration challenge
      6. Containing the city: urban consolidation in Melbourne
      Suburbanisation in Melbourne
      Suburbanisation and intensification
      High-rise development
      Medium-density development
      History of medium-density development
      Increased density on the urban fringe
      Where to now?
      7. Protecting Melbourne's green belt and peri-urban area
      Peri-urban areas
      moveable urban growth boundary
      Rural land fragmentation
      Recent policy directions
      Protecting the hinterland
      8. Transport choices for Melbourne
      Melbourne's transport problems
      Quality of life and social inclusion
      Environmental and health impacts
      Economic consequences
      Transport usage in Melbourne
      Transport investment choices
      Shifting priorities
      9. Shopping and community centres in Melbourne
      changing character of shopping centres in Melbourne
      evolution of retail planning policy
      District Centre Policy
      Recent retail planning policies
      impacts of policies
      Protecting and enhancing centres
      10. Valuing and protecting heritage, amenity and design quality
      Protecting Melbourne's heritage
      What makes good design and high-quality places?
      Ensuring good design as the city transforms
      Market-driven development: from Docklands to Fishermans Bend
      Setting high standards for protection of heritage, design quality and amenity
      11. Melbourne land-use planning system
      Evolution of the Victorian planning system
      Change to the Victorian system
      New zones and the metropolitan strategy
      Piecemeal statutory changes
      12. need for action.
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