As people everywhere struggle to do more with less and cry out for places of meaning and beauty, we have to find fast, creative, profitable ways to capitalize on local ingenuity and turn public spaces into treasured community places.
Interestingly, many of the best, most authentic and enduring destinations in a city, the places that keep locals and tourists coming back again and again and that anchor quality, local jobs, were born out of a series of incremental, locally-based improvements. One by one, these interventions built places that were more than the sum of their parts...more
Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: A Low-Cost, High-Impact Approach « Project for Public Spaces - Placemaking for Communities
Cities of the Future – Creating Connected Communities
The NSW Department of Planning has recently released its updated Metropolitan Plan 2010 which sets the government’s policy direction for accommodating a growing population in metropolitan Sydney, over the next 30 years, which equates to 770,000 additional homes needed by 2036. Sydney’s central challenge is to grow sustainably – improve social and economic outcomes while protecting our natural environment and containing the urban footprint.
The way our city functions and grows into the future will occur differently to how it has occurred before. At least 80% of all new homes will be within walking distance of existing and planned centres of all sizes with good public transport.
The conference session will focus and expand on how we can achieve sustainable population growth that can enhance existing areas and build greater connections for communities through urban renewal, tools and its benefits and will further consider:
Giovanni Cirillo - Executive Director of Urban Renewal and Major Sites at the NSW Department of Planning
International Urban Design Conference 2011, September, Gold Coast
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The way our city functions and grows into the future will occur differently to how it has occurred before. At least 80% of all new homes will be within walking distance of existing and planned centres of all sizes with good public transport.
The conference session will focus and expand on how we can achieve sustainable population growth that can enhance existing areas and build greater connections for communities through urban renewal, tools and its benefits and will further consider:
- A new way of thinking in terms of how we live, where we live and how we move around;
- The benefits of creating connected communities that are within close proximity to infrastructure, and that enhance liveability for existing and new residents;
- New mechanisms recently implemented by government to create a specific urban renewal planning policy and a specific renewal development authority; and
Giovanni Cirillo - Executive Director of Urban Renewal and Major Sites at the NSW Department of Planning
International Urban Design Conference 2011, September, Gold Coast
Bush push suggests it's time to revisit decentralisation policy
DECENTRALISATION policies should be revisited now there is more congestion in urban areas, better transport and telecommunication services, and people willing to move to the regions.
Graeme Hugo and Kevin Harris from the University of Adelaide, in a draft report prepared for the federal government, argue Australia's decentralisation policies have never been properly formulated or pursued.They recount post-war attempts to settle more people in the regions, through decentralisation talks in the 1950s and 60s and the Whitlam government's bid to bolster regional centres such as Albury-Wodonga... more
‘Chapel Street’ diverse and vibrant contemporary urban culture
‘Chapel Street’ is synonymous with contemporary style, fashion, food, arts, entertainment and, increasingly, high-density inner-city apartment living.
The precinct reflects a diverse and vibrant contemporary urban culture, encompassing many contradictions; .…old and new, ordered and disordered, polished and raw, ordinary and extraordinary.
Located within the City of Stonnington, 3 km from the Melbourne CBD, and connecting the hearts of South Yarra, Prahran and Windsor; the Chapel Street precinct has developed a local, national and international reputation as one of Australia’s most distinctive places.
From its early beginnings in the 19th century as a local shopping strip, Chapel Street has continued to evolve and respond to the social and economic impacts of wars, depression, recessions, and competitive retailing pressures from the major stores in the central city of Melbourne, the major regional shopping centres and other inner-urban ‘village’ centres.
This continuing capacity for survival through re-invention, local and regional relevance, and reflection of the eclecticism of contemporary culture, is critical to our understanding of what contributes to the making of ‘resilient’ cities.
This paper will examine the life of the Chapel Street precinct through the multiple perspectives of the place, the past and present, the pursuits, the people, the pressures, the patterns, the plans and the projects.
It concludes with an analysis of the DNA of the place; and how a greater understanding of these factors might inform contemporary approaches to more resilient forms of city planning, urban design and urban management.
David Morrison
Urban Design Advisor
City of Stonnington
http://www.urbandesignaustralia.com.au/
The precinct reflects a diverse and vibrant contemporary urban culture, encompassing many contradictions; .…old and new, ordered and disordered, polished and raw, ordinary and extraordinary.
Located within the City of Stonnington, 3 km from the Melbourne CBD, and connecting the hearts of South Yarra, Prahran and Windsor; the Chapel Street precinct has developed a local, national and international reputation as one of Australia’s most distinctive places.
From its early beginnings in the 19th century as a local shopping strip, Chapel Street has continued to evolve and respond to the social and economic impacts of wars, depression, recessions, and competitive retailing pressures from the major stores in the central city of Melbourne, the major regional shopping centres and other inner-urban ‘village’ centres.
This continuing capacity for survival through re-invention, local and regional relevance, and reflection of the eclecticism of contemporary culture, is critical to our understanding of what contributes to the making of ‘resilient’ cities.
This paper will examine the life of the Chapel Street precinct through the multiple perspectives of the place, the past and present, the pursuits, the people, the pressures, the patterns, the plans and the projects.
It concludes with an analysis of the DNA of the place; and how a greater understanding of these factors might inform contemporary approaches to more resilient forms of city planning, urban design and urban management.
David Morrison
Urban Design Advisor
City of Stonnington
http://www.urbandesignaustralia.com.au/
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