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Better suburbs = better cities : Comments
By Ross Elliott, published 29/5/2015It's the trendy thing to quote Richard Florida's 'creative class' theories which become the excuse to increasingly spoil inner city workers with transport, cultural and other forms of taxpayer funded infrastructure.
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The Board of Works determined the shape of Melbourne 44 years ago – a set of development corridors separated by green wedges. The Board of Works set aside 2,670 square kilometres for green wedges and 2,359 square kilometres as urban land. As The Age reported at the time, ‘The plan is for Melbourne to grow out along seven major corridors, each four to six mile wide, and separated by permanent non-urban wedges’. (“Blueprint for Melbourne 2000”, 29/11/1971). Note ‘permanent’.
Now we are subject to pressure to eat away the green wedges and to force higher densities on green suburbs. Instead we need decentralisation.
There is a planning history in my posts at:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2010/10/20/what-should-we-do-about-melbourne/.