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• Title:Urban choreography : central Melbourne, 1985- / edited by Kim Dovey, Rob Adams and Ronald Jones.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Dovey, Kim, editor.
  Adams, Rob (Rob John), editor.
  Jones, Ronald Alan, 1959- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2018.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT178.A82 M473 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Urban renewal--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
  Urban beautification--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
  Sustainable urban development--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
  City planning--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)
  
• Description:318 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"The transformation of central Melbourne since the since the 1980s is a global success story: or rather, many success stories. Public space has been incrementally reclaimed from cars and railyards, and street-life volumes have increased dramatically. From turning its back on the water, Melbourne has become a waterfront city. The decline of central city retailing has been turned around and the formerly negligible residential population is booming. The city has grown grown greener: literally, environmentally and politically. Laneways that were once filled with garbage are now filled with bars, housing and art. Always an urbane place, Melbourne has re-emerged as a city with a depth of character and urban buzz that is palpable, ineffable and unfinished. Urban Choreography: Melbourne 1985- documents and critiques the range of urban design transformations over this period, together with the key events, plans, projects, places and people involved. It seeks to understand the intermeshing of social, economic, political, environmental and aesthetic forces that drove and constrained these changes, and concludes by looking forward to the possibilities for another thirty years of change. 'Urban Choreography' invokes the idea that the shaping of these multiple movements could create chaos, but can be guided to work in synergy."-- Front flap.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780522871661 (paperback)
  0522871666 (paperback)
  9780522871678
  0522871674
  
• Contents:Move to Melbourne / Jan Gehl
  Taking council / Lecki Ord
  Radical roots of urban change / Jane Homewood
  The transformation of central Melbourne, 1982-88 / David Yencken
  Melbourne, sung as it were a new song / Ronald Jones
  Economic change and urban design / Marcus Spiller
  A city with soul / Kate Brennan
  Designing and framing public space / Peter Elliott
  The Marios talks / Rob Adams, with Kim Dovey
  Voices in the city : participation and planning / Glyn Davis and James Green
  City and university / Kim Dovey
  Melbourne futures / Rob Adams, Kim Dovey and Ronald Jones.