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Event Recording

This panel will discuss findings from the ARC-funded project Australia’s New Cities, which explores the novel urban planning and design elements of new city projects both realised and unrealised in the mid-20th century. Post-war Australia saw a host of plans for satellite city developments with numerous possibilities for future urban form that withered away or were absorbed into an expanding suburban fringe.

However, COVID has reignited debates about the purpose-built greenfield ‘new cities’ as antidotes to the unplanned entanglement of sprawling, un-serviced townships beyond the city limits. The panel will focus on Melbourne and draw on past and contemporary examples from around Australia.

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panel

Prof. David Nichols, University of Melbourne

Prof. Robert Freestone, University of NSW

Dr. Julian Bolleter, University of Western Australia

Dr. Elizabeth Taylor, Urban Planning and Design, Monash University

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