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| What
is Melbourne 2030? |
This
recently published book
provides a lengthy examination of the Melbourne 2030 plan. This is
their published summary of their review of the plan.
About Melbourne 2030
The 'Melbourne 2030'
plan is the Victorian Government's blueprint for the accommodation of
an additional one million people in Melbourne by the year 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:
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the intellectual origins of the plan;
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demographic assumptions behind the plan;
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the mode of implementation;
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the likely impact on the built environment;
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environmental and social consequences;
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heritage outcomes; and
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alternative planning options.
It also 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.
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Authors
Bob Birrell
Kevin O'Connor
Virginia
Rapson Ernest Healy
Bob Birrell is
Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Population and Urban
Research at Monash University. He is the joint editor of the quarterly
demographic journal People and Place, published by the Centre. He was a
member of the National Population Council between 1987 and 1993. He is
currently a member of the Commonwealth Government’s advisory
committee on international education. The Centre for Population
Research has provided consultancy services on urban issues for local
and state government authorities in Melbourne. This background has
contributed to the Centre’s wide range of publications on
urban
issues. It also provides the foundation for the Centre’s
current
work on metropolitan planning in Melbourne.
Kevin O’Connor
is Professor of Urban Planning at Melbourne University. He is the
author of many studies of urban development, with a particular focus on
Melbourne. These include A Society Dividing: The New Economic Geography
of Australia (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Monitoring Greater
Melbourne 2002, Department of Infrastructure. Professor
O’Connor
is recognised as an important commentator on urban issues throughout
Australia.
Virginia Rapson is
Research Manager for the Centre for Population and Urban Research. She
has long experience with the preparation of indicators of
Melbourne’s development through her role in the serial
publication Monitoring Melbourne. She is also an expert in the analysis
of demographic indicators, including the household formation
projections and household movement patterns which are central to the
Melbourne 2030 monograph.
Ernest Healy is
Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Population and Urban
Research at Monash University. He has extensive experience as an
analyst of urban issues, including as the principal researcher on a
major AHURI-funded project ‘Housing and Community in the
Compact
City’ completed by the Centre earlier in 2004. He has
consulted
and published widely on urban issues. He brings specialist data
management and mapping skills to the
project.
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