As planners grapple with how to prevent rampant urban sprawl,there are key lessons from cities such as Paris,Tokyo and the most famous polycentric metropolis of them all:the Netherlands’ Randstad.
Melbourne’s population is surging and we need more homes. In the world’s most liveable city,we can surely do better than:‘Welcome,I hope you packed a tent.’
Melbourne is not Sydney,London or New York. We can heed the lessons from those cities in identifying the location of a second CBD for Melbourne,but we must also play to our strengths and opportunities.
Bundoora,in Melbourne’s north,has poor public transport but the former Victorian premier – now a university chancellor – will push on with plans to make the precinct a second CBD.
We explore three of Melbourne’s best prospective secondary business districts decades after first plans were drafted to decentralise the city.
Decades after planners sought to decentralise Melbourne,it still has only one CBD. In this series,The Age explores the best options for a new city.
Local and state governments have a unified goal to transform a suburb plagued by generational disadvantage into an economic powerhouse.
A little over 14 kilometres from the city centre there’s a rapidly developing suburb that could have everything a CBD needs.
It’s a spread-out landscape bereft of skyscrapers,but this south-eastern suburb has a secret weapon that could cement it as Melbourne’s second CBD.
Decades after planners sought to decentralise Melbourne,it still has only one CBD. In this series,The Age explores the best options for another city.