UID:
almafu_9959239735402883
Format:
1 online resource (191 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-643-10474-7
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0-643-10473-9
Content:
A book about past, present and future planning for the city of Melbourne.
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 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? -- The importance of planning for Melbourne's future -- Overview of the chapters -- 2 State-led planning in 20th-century Melbourne -- The early development of Melbourne -- The 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 The 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 -- The 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 -- An increasingly divided city -- The situation for renters -- Measuring housing affordability stress -- What is causing the problem? -- Are planning charges to blame? -- Are planning policies to blame? -- The role of immigration and foreign investment -- What do people want? -- Housing affordability and purchase costs -- What can planning policy do to deliver affordable housing? -- The 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 -- The moveable urban growth boundary.
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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 -- The changing character of shopping centres in Melbourne -- The evolution of retail planning policy -- The District Centre Policy -- Recent retail planning policies -- The 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 The 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 The need for action -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-643-10472-0
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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URL:
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