As redevelopment and gentrification strategies globally continue to be aimed at attracting wealthier residents and consumers in an effort to drive economic growth, concerns for and interventions in ...the interests of social equity appear decreasingly relevant. Government, private sector and community organisations have of course worked together in different times and places to implement programs that are more rather than less inclusive - the variations always depending on the spatial politics of the context. This paper examines contemporary discourses and practices of place-making in Melbourne, and asks whether ways of thinking about urban redevelopment as place-making in this time and place are likely to enable the inclusion of social equity in these urban "improvements".
Fluid City Dovey, Kim
2005, 20130307, 2013-03-07
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Fluid City traces the transformation of the urban waterfront of Melbourne, the re-vitalization of the Yarra River waterfront, Melbourne Docklands and Port Philip Bay. As the financial and industrial ...centre of Australia, in the late nineteenth century, Melbourne developed a new world exuberance. Yet the twentieth century saw Melbourne suffering from a declining industrial and economic base. The city in the 1980s was de-industrialising, and the re-facing of the city to the water was a key urban strategy of the 1980s and 90s and a catalyst for economic transformation. This book bridges significant gaps between different discourses about the city and to challenge singular ways of viewing the city.
Informal green spaces (IGS) are the overlooked and unplanned green spaces in our cities. They have been shown provide a potentially important social and ecological green space asset through ...contributing to ecological habitat and connectivity, as well as green space accessibility for urban residents. Despite their potential value to urban social-ecological systems, IGS are often overlooked and forgotten in urban planning policy. However, before we can think about how best to govern these spaces, we must first know where they are. This paper proposes a method to spatially locate IGS in a practical and resource sensitive way. We outline a method that uses an overlay analysis of open government data to map IGS at a high resolution and at a landscape scale based on key social-ecological characteristics. The method was applied to a case study in the City of Darebin, Melbourne, Australia, and evaluated through an onsite validation process. Results indicate that the method accurately predicted the location of IGS within the urban environment with an accuracy of 83%. This mapping method has several useful applications both within the Melbourne and Australian contexts, as well as potential application globally. These include enabling future research into how IGS contribute to urban social-ecological systems, as well as enabling land use decision makers seeking to better understand the abundance and nature of IGS sites they manage and how they may govern these spaces in a more informed way.
•Informal green spaces (IGS) are important to urban social-ecological systems.•Mapping IGS enables more informed governance of these spaces.•This method uses social-ecological characteristics to map IGS at a landscape scale.•The method accurately maps the presence and absence of IGS in urban environments.
This article investigates recovery from mental health problems with reference to recent geographical analysis of affective atmospheres. In so doing, my research responds to recent calls to clarify ...the ways social, spatial and political factors may promote or impede recovery. As it is normally deployed, the notion of recovery emphasises the deeply personal character of rehabilitation from mental illness. It describes neither the full restoration of health (as a return to some ‘pre-morbid’ condition), nor the symptomologies characteristic of chronic illness, introducing the need for new ways of conceiving of a kind of health in illness. Throughout my analysis, I will treat recovery as an emergent capacity to manipulate the affects, spaces and events of a body’s “becoming well”. The always-unfinished event of recovery links human and nonhuman spaces, bodies, objects and forces in the joint expression of an enhanced capacity to affect (and be affected by) other bodies and spaces. I ground this discussion in analysis of ethnographic data collected in studies of recovery conducted in Melbourne, Australia. In presenting my findings, I will focus on three discrete atmospheres encountered in the course of this inquiry, and the ways these atmospheres modulated particular recovery events. In each instance, I will explore how atmospheres were encountered and co-constituted in the work of recovery, in the creation of an assemblage of health, and how these atmospheres gave social and material form to the process of becoming well. I will conclude by assessing how an attunement to affects, spaces and bodies may yield novel means of “staging” atmospheres of recovery in the promotion of an assemblage of health.
Microstructural investigations of mantle xenoliths from the Mt. Melbourne area were undertaken to reveal the origin of S-wave splitting beneath northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The six analyzed ...peridotites contain various deformation features. The rotated olivine maxima of 100 and 010 into horizontal and vertical orientations, respectively, are classified into five samples with a D-type crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) and one sample as an A-type CPO. The D-type olivine fabric can be explained by multiple slip systems of {0kl}100 at low-temperature and high-stress conditions; therefore, both compressional and extensional regimes during subduction and rifting, respectively, could be applied in this study. With an assumption that olivine a-axes are aligned along the direction of mantle flow to form maximum S-wave splitting, the observed delay time of 0.9–1.3 s beneath northern Victoria Land can be partially explained by the anisotropy in the mantle peridotites. The remaining seismic anisotropy can be explained by the presence of melt pockets trapped along tectonic faults that developed perpendicular to the fast S-wave splitting direction. This study therefore demonstrates that the NE–SW-trending S-wave splitting beneath northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, results from the existence of both mantle peridotites as well as melt pockets trapped along the tectonic faults.
•We first report origin of S-wave splitting below northern Victoria Land, Antarctica.•Limited recrystallization and low partial melting suggest a weak metasomatism.•The D-/A-type olivine CPOs are quantitatively defined by shape factor K and FIA.•D-type olivine CPO forms by slip systems of {0 kl}100 at low-T and high stress.•The observed delay time is explained by both mantle peridotites and melt pockets.
•Increasing integration of urban ecology science strengthens actions for biodiversity.•Collaboration between ecologists and land managers underpins landscape stewardship.•Adaptive management ...addresses novel ecosystems and impacts of urbanisation and climate change.
Cities have important roles in biodiversity restoration and management. Local municipalities, as key land managers, play critical roles since some species are restricted to small patches of urban habitat, and some are considered threatened. Evolving approaches to urban nature policy, strategy and implementation demonstrate increasing sophistication and complexity, with approaches transitioning towards the adoption of more complex objectives, that address a wider range of urban nature forms, species and ecosystems. These objectives are increasingly underpinned by urban ecology research, citizen science participation and political championing. This paper adopts a ‘dialogue’-adapted research approach to examine the evolution of the City of Melbourne’s urban nature policies and actions across the decade from 2010 to 2020. We identify the key factors that enabled the endorsement and implementation of this capital city’s Nature in the City strategy, analysing the science-policy interface and governance aspects that underpinned this significant policy transition. Through interviews and workshops with a range of actors involved in the implementation of the City of Melbourne’s urban nature policies and activities over the last 10 years, we identify lessons learned that can be applied in other cities by urban land managers. In doing so, we argue that Melbourne’s focus on biodiversity conservation and opportunities for restoration of species and ecological processes constitute important innovations in urban landscape policy.
People's perception about innovation districts are widening. They are now seen not only as a hub for commerce, research and education, but also a node for facilitating recreational, cultural and ...community-based activities. However, the level of integration of local communities with innovation districts is an understudied area. The paper aims to identify the likely features of innovation districts that can enhance public inclusiveness within this new land use type. This study surveys 1040 participants from three major Australian cities to address the research questions—How can an enhanced community engagement with innovation districts be established? The results reveal that: (a) Currently community engagement with innovation districts is limited to occupational and educational activities; (b) Lack of social coherence between knowledge workers and the public limits community engagement with innovation districts; (c) Advanced amenities, authentic scenes and unique experiences from innovation districts would enhance community engagement. The study informs planning and design policies to improve public engagement in innovation districts.
•Community engagement with innovation districts is limited to occupational and educational activities.•Lack of social coherence between knowledge workers and the public limits community engagement with innovation districts•Advanced amenities, authentic scenes and unique experiences from innovation districts would enhance community engagement.•Identified features of innovation districts can enhance public inclusiveness within this new land use type.
The COVID-19 pandemic not only has created a global health crisis but also has dramatic effects on the environment. To fight the spread of Coronavirus, governments imposed social distancing policies, ...which caused negative and positive impacts on the environment. Victoria, the second-most populated state in Australia, was hit by two waves of COVID-19. During the second wave of the pandemic, Victoria, especially Melbourne, experienced one of the most stringent and longest lockdowns globally. In this study, the changes in mobility trends, traffic, air pollution, noise pollution, and waste generation during the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Victoria are evaluated and compared. It was observed that the pandemic had both positive and negative impacts on the environment. During the second wave of the pandemic in Victoria, the mobility trends of public transport hubs, retail and recreation venues, and workplaces experienced a significant drop in movements at respective values of 85%, 83%, and 76% compared to the period of 5 weeks from 3 January to 6 February 2020. PM
2.5
levels were lower by 23% at Alphington and 24% at Footscray from 16 March to 1 May 2020 compared with the average PM
2.5
levels in the past 4 years. It was estimated that the respective daily generations of used face masks during the first wave and second wave of the pandemic in Victoria were approximately 104 and 160 tons.
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