PLANNING FOR MELBOURNE

WHAT NOW?

Presentation by Prof. Roz HansenUrban and Regional Planner

MAV National Conference ‘Smart Urban Futures’25 March 2015

Planning should not be about winners and losers

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A legacy of metropolitan strategic planning

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Good Cities, Better Lives (Peter Hall)Five basic challenges:

1. Rebalancing our urban economies to create good jobs and new sources of work for everyone

2. Building new homes in enough quantity to meet demand, in the right places and to good standards

3. Linking people and places through integrated land use and transport planning

4. Living with finite resources and the impacts of climate change

5. Fixing broken machinery so as to bring public and private agencies together in the process of development and redevelopment

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Rebalancing our urban economies to create good jobs and new sources of work for everyone.

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Population and Jobs

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Not a ‘triangle’ but a polycentric city

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http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/3/8/k/h/y/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.38k84.png/1400518800000.jpg

Growth area local town centres

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Why aren’t we requiring mixed use, medium density town centres in our growth areas?

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Time to review the PSP approach

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Building new homes in enough quantity to meet demand, in the right places and to good standards.

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The housing narrative needs to be told

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Linking people and places through integrated land use and transport planning

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Corridors and nodes

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http://www.transformingaustraliancities.com.au/

Living with finite resources and the impacts of climate change

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Hotter, less rain, more bushfires, rising sea level …

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Key climate change risks for Victoria over the 21st century, Steffen & Hughes 2013

Fixing broken machinery so as to bring public and private agencies together in the process of development and redevelopment

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Thank you for your attention

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