What is a sponge city? The construction of the sponge city is regarded as an important measure to enhance the city’s flood control capacity. Its practice is to effectively control the rainwater absorption, storage and slow release of rainwater through infrastructure, roads and green space through strengthening urban planning and management. run-off. The construction of…
In August, Liberal MP Peter Phelps issued a fierce roar in the New South Wales House of Lords, saying that the traffic lights were “Bolshevik threats.” He believes that traffic lights are in line with the state’s suppression of individual freedom. Instead, he demanded that we need more roundabouts: “The roundabout represents freedom. The roundabout…
The release of the 2016 Census data provides a good opportunity to reflect the future growth of Australian cities. Is there a better future use case than Tokyo? The city is often the subject of a futuristic vision and has experienced one of the fastest post-war population growth periods in the world. The Greater Tokyo…
We live in a global urban age. Australia’s major urban areas are expanding rapidly. Melbourne had 91,600 residents in 2014-15, an annual growth rate of 2.1%. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the developed world. Other big Australian cities have also seen rapid growth over the past year – Sydney at 1.7…
Governments at all levels have invested heavily in greening the Australian suburbs. However, in a recent report, we showed that the greening work of most metropolitan local governments is actually going backwards. This is a problem because greening has obvious environmental and economic benefits. Environmental benefits are obvious and relatively easy to calculate. For private…
For our city, it strongly argues for a more compact settlement model and transportation pricing reforms. However, it has some substantial weaknesses. Integrate land use and transport priorities The report’s discussion of the need for a more compact city is impressive, but it is caught in the same trap as the government’s criticism of state…
Unlike the UK, Australia does not have a lasting national urban policy tradition, and we sometimes import policies from it. The Commonwealth government has long been intervening in cities, from addressing housing shortages to funding urban infrastructure, but has always avoided adopting formal national settlement strategies. Sometimes the Commonwealth claims that there are no constitutional…
Foreword The planning of the colonial colonial countries has always been carried out on the land of the indigenous people. Although indigenous rights, identity and cultural values are increasingly being discussed in planning, their mainstream accounts actually ignore the assumptions of the discipline, the colonization of technology and methods, and the legacy. This groundbreaking book…
The latest report on Australian infrastructure, the Australian Infrastructure Program, is a major tribute to better infrastructure planning For our city, it strongly argues for a more compact settlement model and transportation pricing reforms. However, it has some substantial weaknesses. Integrate land use and transport priorities The report’s discussion of the need for a more…
If you missed it, it was designated as the roadside year by Sabrina Sussman, Zipcar’s public partnership manager, in 2018. This is because competition for limited curb space has become increasingly fierce in the past few years, especially in cities. The roadside is where the “channel” is provided between the street and the sidewalk. This…