Melbourne 2030 : planning rhetoric versus urban reality / Bob Birrell, Ernest Healy, and Kevin O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birrell, Bob, author.

Healy, Ernest, author.

O'Connor, Kevin (Radio producer), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Looking back, looking forward: urban policy for metropolitan Melbourne; CHAPTER 2 Concentrating Melbourne: the activity centre strategy; CHAPTER 3 The urban growth boundary; CHAPTER 4 Demographic constraints; CHAPTER 5 Residential infill and its threat to Melbourne's liveability; CHAPTER 6 Melbourne 2030: the need for a fundamental review;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780975747513

0975747517

OCLC:

156306366