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How To Build A City

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COVID-19 has no impact on Melbourne’s population forecasts

  • Rodney Maddock
  • February 7, 2021
Population growth lies at the heart of planning for Australian cities. For Melbourne in particular the race to build appropriate infrastructure and to structure plans depends importantly on how rapidly…
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  • City Planning
  • Public Health
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Open COVID ‘cold spots’ first: a way out of lockdown for Melbourne

  • John and Janet Stanley
  • September 5, 2020
Up to now the focus has been on managing “hot spots” in the COVID lockdowns of Melbourne and Victoria. We have identified four key factors that might help explain why…
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  • City Planning
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What is the cost of icing?

  • Mark Sheppard
  • July 16, 2020
Urban designers are dangerous.  At times we ‘get away with murder’ because of the intangible nature of our field, which makes it difficult to scrutinise recommendations and weigh them up…
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  • City Planning
  • Infrastructure
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Business as Usual or a “New Normal” for Cities?

  • Billie Giles-Corti
  • July 15, 2020
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COVID19 is tragic for individuals, families, communities and the economy in Melbourne and across the globe yet provides an opportunity to stop and think about the implications for our cities. …
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  • Public Health
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Phobos, φόβος, fear

  • Kos Samaras
  • June 2, 2020
Phobos, φόβος, fear. We see it in our research, we see it expressed via a myriad of ways in the community, through the media and across the world.  The first…
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  • City Planning
  • Infrastructure
  • Public Health
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Will COVID-19 change the way we plan our cities?

  • Peter Seamer
  • April 6, 2020
We know that C19 is impacting us massively, but will it teach us some lessons about the way our cities operate and allow us to reduce the impact of any…
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  • City Planning
  • Infrastructure
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The Other West Gate Bottleneck

  • Rodney Maddock
  • March 4, 2020
Key points: The bridge limits the size of container ships coming to Australian ports This costs Australians about $1.5 billion per year Infrastructure Victoria should redo its analysis of reconfiguring…
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  • City Planning
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Studying the wrong cities will lead to repeating their mistakes

  • Ross Elliot
  • February 27, 2020
Well please don’t. Leave their failed ideas there, please. Maybe learn from their failures and decide the things not to do in Australia? Enjoy the sights and the tastes of these often…
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  • City Planning
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Growth means more congestion, or does it?

  • Peter Seamer
  • December 30, 2019
Everyone knows that our population is highly likely to double in the next few decades. We have the massive problem of where these people will live and how can we…
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  • City Planning
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What’s the problem with our cities?

  • Peter Seamer
  • December 16, 2019
Albert Einstein has often been incorrectly quoted as defining ‘insanity’ as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This is precisely what we are doing…
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  • City Planning
  • Population
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COVID-19 has no impact on Melbourne’s population forecasts

  • February 7, 2021
  • City Planning
  • Public Health
  • 4 minute read
  • 1.7K views

Open COVID ‘cold spots’ first: a way out of lockdown for Melbourne

  • September 5, 2020
  • City Planning
  • 3 minute read
  • 2.0K views

What is the cost of icing?

  • July 16, 2020
  • City Planning
  • Infrastructure
  • Public Health
  • 5 minute read
  • 3.1K views

Business as Usual or a “New Normal” for Cities?

  • July 15, 2020
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