Transcript SUF 2015 - Planning for Melbourne - What now

PLANNING FOR MELBOURNE
WHAT NOW?
Presentation by Prof. Roz Hansen
Urban and Regional Planner
MAV National Conference ‘Smart Urban Futures’
25 March 2015
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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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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
http://www.transformingaustraliancities.com.au/
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Living with finite
resources and the impacts
of climate change
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Hotter, less rain, more bushfires, rising sea
level …
Key climate change risks for Victoria over the 21st century, Steffen & Hughes 2013
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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