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Where are cities growing?
% share of metropolitan population in the inner city at 2001 and 2011 (ABS data) There’re some interesting takeaways from the latest ABS estimates of population growth released last week. You can get a...
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Is Melbourne really the World’s Most Liveable City?
Downtown Minneapolis - this is NOT a joke! Click to look around in Google Street View Ho hum, another half-year, another chapter in the World’s Most Liveable City sweepstakes, this time courtesy of the...
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Does Australia really have the world’s most liveable cities?
Top ten World's Most Liveable Cities Melbourne is again the world’s most liveable city and Adelaide, Sydney, Perth and Auckland are all in the top 10. Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary are also in the top...
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Are regional dormitories the way to grow our cities?
Rail Futures’s rail plan for Victorian at 2046 Citizen rail advocacy group, Rail Futures, released an ambitious 25 year regional rail plan for Victoria on Monday (Intercity: how regional rail can...
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Are we really a rural country like Senator Abetz says?
Balranald in outback NSW with a population of 1,600 is as urban as Sydney according to the ABS I rarely watch ABC-TV’s Q&A (I see enough narcissists during the day, thank you) but my attention was...
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Will shifting government agencies to the regions drive decentralisation?
Decentralisation; beautiful Armidale in the federal Minister for Agriculture’s electorate will be the lucky recipient of an agricultural agency relocated from Canberra There’s lots of talk at the...
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Will population growth ruin a city’s liveability?
Corner King and Collins St, Melbourne, 1916 The Age’s state politics editor, Josh Gordon, reckons Melbourne is growing at an unsustainable rate (Five reasons Melbourne is no longer the world’s most...
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Are Australia’s big cities dense enough?
Percentage of population by density in persons per Hectare (source: Spencer et al) In an interesting paper to the Australian Transport Research Forum, researchers from SGS Economics and Planning...
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Is immigration ruining our cities?
Estimated Resident Population, Victoria and major regions 1971 to 2051 (source: Victoria In Future 2016) Following the Sun Herald’s Future Melbourne series last month, Fairfax journalists Royce Millar...
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Is popular support for city growth evaporating?
“Melbourne’s growth comes at a cost” (source: The Age) On Saturday, The Age ran another article in its series on population growth in Melbourne, highlighting the impact on “housing affordability, urban...
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