Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city for more than a decade. 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.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.Features:* Uses a single-city focus to address widely applicable current debates in urbanization, governance and planning* Analyzes Melbourne's historical strategic policies to critique contemporary planning issues* Reviews Melbourne's spatial planning system, with a focus on strategic land-use planning

Planning Melbourne: Lessons for a Sustainable City

Politics & Social Sciences

Buxton, Michael

MOLONEY, Susie

Goodman, Robin

Social Sciences

CSIRO Publishing

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Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Arcturus

Peri-urban landscapes are some of the world's most vulnerable areas. Although they are often thought of simply as land awaiting development, these landscapes retain important natural resources and make valuable contributions to agriculture, water use, biodiversity conservation, landscape preservation and human well-being. Billions of people use them and enjoy their natural values. Their continuing loss threatens to alter our relationships with nature and have a negative impact on the environment. The Future of the Fringefirst explores the history of peri-urban areas, international peri-urban policy and practice, and related concepts. It analyzes internationally relevant issues such as green belts and urban growth boundaries, regional policy, land supply and price, and the concepts of liveability, attractiveness, well-being and rural amenity. It then examines a range of Australian peri-urban issues, as an extended case study. The book argues for a precautionary approach so that we retain the greatest number of options to adapt during rapid and unprecedented change. <ul> <li>The first Australian book to examine Australian peri-urban issues in detail.</li> <li>Comprehensively reviews the international literature on peripheral urban ('peri-urban') landscapes and related issues.</li> <li>Analyzes contemporary debates on contentious peri-urban issues, such as the future of green belts and peri-urban agriculture.</li> <li>Includes a section on international peri-urban policy and planning practice.</li> <li>Presents a strong argument for the preservation of the traditional rural landscapes of peri-urban areas.</li> </ul>

The Future of the Fringe: The Crisis in Peri-Urban Planning

Arts & Photography

Butt, Andrew

History & Criticism

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