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Minister for Cities lost in reshuffle

Words Sian Johnson Melbourne. Image: Public domain The federal government role of Minister for Cities and the Built Environment has already been lost just six months after being created by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The new Assistant…

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Thousands of new apartments placing pressure on city’s north

Clay Lucas City Editor, The Age Date April 6, 2015 Bruce Echberg bought into the CBD in the first wave of apartment development in Melbourne, in the early days of…

MELBOURNE METRO – RETHINKING THE TRAM NETWORK

Posted on http://andrewboydbarber.com/category/location/melbourne/ Apr 24, 2015 © 2015 Andrew Boyd Barber All Rights Reserved The Victorian Government has recently announced a Multi-billion dollar rail infrastructure project through the heart of…

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New visions of the city through the arts

By David Banks David Banks was one of two winners of our Active by Design IdeasTap competition with his proposal for Movement Codes – a bank of instructional videos, accessed…

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The myth of the American love affair with cars

By Emily Badger January 27 A historian skeptical of the future of cars reconsiders the story of how we became so attached to them. For decades, Americans have been in…

Singapore beats NYC, London, Hong Kong in Global Liveable Cities Index

By Marissa Lee SINGAPORE – A new index advocating a new measure of liveability has ranked Singapore as the third most liveable city in the world, lagging only Geneva and…

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2014 AILA VICTORIA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS MEDIA RELEASE November, 2014 2014 AILA VICTORIA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Victoria is pleased to announce the following Award Winners.…

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2014 Australia Award for Urban Design – SUSTAINED CONTRIBUTION TO URBAN DESIGN (new award)

AWARD: Urban Voices – celebrating urban design in AustraliaProject Team: Bruce Echberg, Bill Chandler, John Byrne Citation: This year, out of the entries to the existing four categories, the judges were…

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2014 Australia Award for Urban Design – DELIVERED OUTCOME – Large Scale (Two awards given)

AWARD: Prince Alfred Park and Pool Project Team: Neeson Murcutt Architects, Sue Barnsley Design, City of Sydney Citiation: The importance of green space in densely developed inner urban areas is well accepted,…

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‘Street 14’ Urban Design Competition

Jury’s Statement : A total of fifty-three submissions were received on 29 September 2014, including 5 videos, and most submissions directly considered the functional brief and assessment criteria. The jury…