Rodney Maddock
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City Planning
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What is the cost of icing?
Mark Sheppard
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…
Business as Usual or a “New Normal” for Cities?
Billie Giles-Corti
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. …
Will COVID-19 change the way we plan our cities?
Peter Seamer
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…
The Other West Gate Bottleneck
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…
Studying the wrong cities will lead to repeating their mistakes
Ross Elliot
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…
Growth means more congestion, or does it?
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…
What’s the problem with our cities?
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…
We’ve heard it all before… but what are we doing about it?”
Melbourne will double in population in the next 30 years, our roads and public transport are congested, and the cost of rail and freeway projects is massive. Our metropolis is…
