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

  • Rodney Maddock
  • February 7, 2021
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Open COVID ‘cold spots’ first: a way out of lockdown for Melbourne

  • September 5, 2020

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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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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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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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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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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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We’ve heard it all before… but what are we doing about it?”

  • Peter Seamer
  • December 14, 2019
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…
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