| Description |
318 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour), charts (chiefly colour), plans (chiefly colour), facsimiles (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Move to Melbourne -- Taking Council -- Radical Roots of Urban Change -- The Transformation of Central Melbourne, 1982-88 -- Melbourne, Sung as It Were a New Song -- Economic Change and Urban Design -- A City with Soul -- Designing and Framing Public Space -- The Marios Talks -- Voices in the City: Participating and Planning -- City and University -- Melbourne Futures |
| Summary |
The transformation of central Melbourne since the 1980s is a global success story — or rather, many success stories. Public space has been incrementally reclaimed from cars and railyards, and street-life volumes have increased dramatically. From turning its back on the water, Melbourne has become a waterfront city. The decline of central city retailing has been turned around and the formerly negligible residential population is booming. The city has grown greener — literally, environmentally and politically. Laneways that were once filled with garbage are now filled with bars, housing and art. Always an urbane place, Melbourne has re-emerged as a city with a depth of character and urban buzz that is palpable, ineffable and unfinished. Urban Choreography: Melbourne 1985- documents and critiques the range of urban design transformations over this period, together with the key events, plans, projects, places and people involved. It seeks to understand the intermeshing of social, economic, political, environmental and aesthetic forces that drove and constrained these changes, and concludes by looking forward to the possibilities for another thirty years of change. 'Urban choreography' invokes the idea that the shaping of these multiple movements could create chaos, but can be guided to work in synergy |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-313) and index (pages 314-317) |
| Subject |
Urban renewal -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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Urban beautification -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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Sustainable urban development -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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City planning -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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Space (Architecture) -- Victoria -- Melbourne
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Urban renewal -- Victoria -- Melbourne
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Urban beautification -- Victoria -- Melbourne
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Sustainable urban development -- Victoria -- Melbourne
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City planning -- Victoria -- Melbourne
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Space (Architecture) -- Victoria -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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Sustainable urban development -- Victoria -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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Urban beautification -- Victoria -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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City planning -- Victoria -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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Urban renewal -- Victoria -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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| Author |
Dovey, Kim, editor
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Adams, Rob (Rob John), editor
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Jones, Ronald, editor
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| LC no. |
2018411846 |
| ISBN |
9780522871661 |
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