Melbourne 2030: planning rhetoric versus urban reality
by Bob Birrell, Kevin O’Connor, Virginia Rapson and Ernest Healy, Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University, March 2005
The Melbourne 2030 planning scheme is the Bracks Government’s blueprint for the accommodation of an additional one million people in Melbourne by 2030. The ‘compact city’ philosophy behind the plan and the radical administrative measures proposed to achieve its objective will fundamentally reshape the city of Melbourne.
This volume explores the intellectual origins of the Melbourne 2030 planning scheme, the demographic assumptions on which it is based, the mode of implementation, the likely impact on the built environment, the likely environmental and social consequences, as well as heritage outcomes, and alternative planning options.
Melbourne 2030: planning rhetoric versus urban reality will be available online as an open access publication from Monash University Publishing [mid-2011]
It can also purchased in print form from Monash University Publishing [shopping cart] at a cost of $34.95 plus postage and handling.