Health facilities purpose Assist health agencies in integrating with local and regional communities. Strategy Promoting the location of health and wellness-related facilities (including acute health, aged care, disability services, and community care facilities) takes into account demographic trends, current and future demand requirements, and integration of services and communities. Plan public and private development…
As Melbourne hosted the EcoCity World Summit this week, we may be thinking about the progress Australia has made in achieving sustainable urbanization. Australian metropolitan planning has long recognized the urban geographer Clive Foster as what is called a “compact urban consensus”. This is a commitment to an integrated, well-designed, low-energy city with high usage…
The population of Australia has grown by 3.8 million over the past decade. Melbourne is the fastest growing city in the capital city – close to 1 million new immigrants in the ten years to June 2016. With this growth, there is a need to expand social infrastructure – all the common social services and…
For 150 years, Melbourne people have dreamed of becoming a square, a great ritual space where people can relax, celebrate, protest or simply enjoy companionship with their fellow citizens. They have a word about their dreams – a citizen square. The term “citizen” means “city” or “belonging to citizenship”. They don’t want markets, parks,…
Overlooking Melbourne’s skyline at night, I can see at least four high-rise buildings with digital media. They become vibrant and almost flash like diamonds. We see this on a global scale: buildings now seem to be the most incredible look. Buildings have unprecedented opportunities, and urban policies need to keep up with these developments. Buildings…
The Australian Infrastructure Department has called for metropolitan scale governance in Australia’s largest city. The new report of the Commonwealth Statutory Infrastructure Institutions aims to determine the prospects for Sydney and Melbourne over the next 25 years, and identifying integrated governance and leadership is key to success. The report identifies the role of state governments…
Melbourne needs more affordable housing close to public transport and services. In the past two years, the rough sleep time in Melbourne, Inner Mongolia has increased by 74%. This may be the most obvious result of the lack of affordable housing options. For families dependent on government aid, only 1% of advertising rental properties in…
In 1980, the feminist journal sign published a visionary essay asking readers to imagine non sexist city. A then junior professor of urban planning at the University of California, Dolores Hayden, wrote the essay. Hayden argued that architects and urban planners worked off the implicit understanding that a woman belonged in the home. She believed…
1Review After reviewing the main related works, we can draw the following issues that justify and summarize our contributions in this field: 1. Informational urbanism needs to be fed by valuable knowledge to be useful for designing smart urban planning actions. Big data technology and the IoT play a vital role in providing it, but…
Price pullbacks in the Sydney and Melbourne property markets have created an opportunity for first-home buyers, particularly those with deposits ready. Values in most capitals are expected to remain relatively flat throughout 2019, with some cities anticipated to post moderate gains that gives prospective purchasers something they haven’t had in years – breathing room to…