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Planning Melbourne : lessons for a sustainable city / Michael Buxton, Robin Goodman and Susie Moloney.
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Title:Planning Melbourne : lessons for a sustainable city / Michael Buxton, Robin Goodman and Susie Moloney.
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Author/Creator:Buxton, Michael, author.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Goodman, Robin, author.
Moloney, Susie, author.
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Published/Created:Clayton South, VIC, Australia : CSIRO Publishing, [2016]
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: HT169.A82 M4252 2016
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
Sustainable urban development--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
Urban policy--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
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Description:vii, 182 pages ; 25 cm
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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.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780643104723 paperback
0643104720 paperback
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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.