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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143277003321

Autore

Birrell Bob

Titolo

Melbourne 2030 [[electronic resource] ] : planning rhetoric versus urban reality / / Bob Birrell, Kevin O'Connor, Virginia Rapson & Ernest Healy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clayton, Victoria, : Monash University ePress, 2005

ISBN

0-9757475-1-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

O'ConnorKevin

RapsonVirginia

HealyErnest

Disciplina

711.4099451

Soggetti

City planning - Australia - Melbourne (Vic.)

Urbanization - Australia - Melbourne (Vic.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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