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Aug. 05, 2021 / Gordon Price

Melbourning Vancouver

Daily Scot is always on the lookout for signs that Vancouver is adopting great ideas from Melbourne on how to…
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Mar. 31, 2020 / Gordon Price

Normality in Melbourne: How They Took a Coffee Break

In a lane of course.  It’s a Melbournesque scene, and you have to know where to find it.  Apparently the…
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Apr. 09, 2018 / Gordon Price

Car-Free Superblocks for Melbourne?

From The Age: Melbourne’s CBD could become largely ‘car-free’ under a proposal to counter a growing pedestrian crush, and planning…
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Aug. 08, 2016 / Gordon Price

Motordom in Melbourne

Stephen B picks up some detritus from the Twittersphere – a view reportedly in Melbourne:…
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Jan. 10, 2016 / artitectus

Dead space for a living city.

I was watching an older SFU video last week on The Melbourne Experience. … and one of the most interesting…
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Apr. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

Suburban Selfishness in Melbourne

Greg Vann links to this: This month Boroondara council banned new buildings of more than three storeys in 31 shopping…
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Feb. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouverism in Excess: The Case of Melbourne

Some cities looked at the densification of Vancouver’s central core with admiration, and then went too far.  Melbourne was one…
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Jan. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

Future Cities: The View from Aus

Cole Hendrigan passes on “the link below is to a well-presented documentary on the discussion – not be confused with…
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Dec. 01, 2014 / Gordon Price

Report: “Intensifying Melbourne”

From Cole Hendrigan at Curtin University: I was not involved in this, though I wish I had been. I just…
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Oct. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Motordom in Australia: A tunnel for Melbourne

Peter Whitelaw passes this along this piece from the Guardian Australia on the East West Link – “the most contentious, emotionally charged…
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Aug. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

"An Argument for Alleys," or, Why Melbourne beats us on livability

Peter Berkeley links to this piece – “An Argument for Alleys” – from Michigan State University: Alleys provide a space…
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Jun. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Three Good Ideas for Melbourne (Or, What I Said Down Under)

I was asked on the fly by Melbourne’s “Public Transit Not Traffic” to give ’em three good ideas in three minutes. …
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May. 29, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Morning Cycle at Bourke and Swanston

Stand at the corner of Melbourne’s two transit malls – Bourke and Swanston Streets – and you can watch the…
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May. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Colour in Melbourne

I’ve often praised Brisbane as an Australian city that knows how to use colour in its architecture.  (I did a…

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