Planning Melbourne
Lessons for a Sustainable City
By: Michael Buxton, Robin Goodman, Susie Moloney
A book about past, present and future planning for the city of Melbourne.
For more than a decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city. It is expanding outward while also growing upward through vast new high-rise developments in the inner suburbs. With an estimated 1.6 million additional homes needed by 2050, planners and policymakers need to address current and emerging issues of amenity, function, productive capacity and social cohesion today. + Full description
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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Paperback | July 2016 | $ 59.95ISBN: 9780643104723 | 192 pages | 245 x 170 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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Features
- Uses a single-city focus to address widely applicable current debates in urbanisation, governance and planning
- Analyses Melbourne's historical strategic policies to critique contemporary planning issues
- Reviews Melbourne's spatial planning system, with a focus on strategic land-use planning
Contents
Preface1. City Growth, Sustainability And Planning
2. State-Led Planning In 20th-Century Melbourne
3. The Emergence Of A Neoliberal Era In Planning
4. Aspirational Planning In The 2000s
5. Housing Provision And Affordability In Melbourne
6. Containing The City: Urban Consolidation In Melbourne
7. Protecting Melbourne’s Green Belt And Peri-Urban Area
8. Transport Choices For Melbourne
9. Shopping And Community Centres In Melbourne
10. Valuing And Protecting Heritage, Amenity And Design Quality
11. The Melbourne Land-Use Planning System
12. The Need For Action
References
Index
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Authors
Michael Buxton is Professor of Environment and Planning at RMIT University and former head of the RMIT planning program. He spent 12 years in senior management in planning and environmental agencies in the Victorian Government and has written widely on urban form, peri-urban development and environmental policy.
Robin Goodman is Professor and Deputy Dean of Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University. She was the inaugural Director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT and has been an active researcher and academic for 20 years, writing extensively on planning policy, housing and urban form.
Susie Moloney is a senior research fellow and lecturer with the School of Global Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University. She has worked as a planning academic, strategic planning consultant and in the Victorian Government. She has published on planning policy and a wide range of environmental issues.
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