Melbourne 2030: Planning Rhetoric versus Urban Reality
By Bob Birrell, Kevin O'Connor, Virginia Rapson, and Ernest Healy
Monash University ePress
ISBN:
0975747509
The Melbourne 2030 plan is the Victorian Government's blueprint for the accommodation of an additional one million people in Melbourne by 2030. The plan seeks to change the shape of Melbourne radically. The vision is of a compact city in which growth will be concentrated in existing commercial centres (activity centres). Notwithstanding this fundamental departure from the low density pattern of the past, it is claimed that Melbourne's famed "liveability"will be preserved.
This book explores: the intellectual origins of the plan, the demographic assumptions behind it, the mode of implementation, the likely impact on the built environment, the environmental and social consequences, the heritage outcomes and alternative planning options. It critically examines assumptions about the projected demand for higher density housing, and argues that the plan's "compact city" vision is unlikely to be achieved because it fails to come to grips with the economic and demographic realities facing Melbourne.
About the authors:
Bob Birrell is Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University and co-editor of the journal People and Place. He has been a member of the National Population Council and is on the Federal Government's advisory committee on international education.
Kevin O'Connor is Professor of Urban Planning at The University of Melbourne and co-author of A Society Dividing: The New Economic Geography of Australia and the Monitoring Melbourne series.
Virginia Rapson is Research Manager for the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University. She has extensive experience as a researcher on many studies on urban and demographic issues.
Ernest Healy is Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University. He has worked as a researcher on various studies for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.
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