Archive for May, 2007

“…we live in the oddest moment since our species first stood upright, the moment when we are finally grown so big in numbers and in appetites that we alter everything around us…It is the contrast between the pace at which society is reacting that constitutes the key environmental factor of our time.” (p.xvi, McKibben, 1990)
Recognising […]

The Melbourne Airport is a vital hub for the State of Victoria were people fly in and out 24-hours a day 365 days a year. So you might say so what? Well being a significant port within Victoria you would think there are many ways you could get to the airport, and there is, by […]

Defining Neighbourhood Character:
Neighbourhood character is a combination of design elements that are prominent and preferred within a locality. The City of Greater Bendigo states that neighbourhood character is “about how buildings relate to the streetscape, landform, vegetation and each other” (Neighbourhood Character Study 2005). The City of Darebin (Neighbourhood Character Study 2006) states that neighbourhood […]

‘The idea of citizen participation is a little like eating spinach: no one is against it in principle because its good for you.’ (Arnstein, 1969)
Traditional models of public participation in planning have been criticised as ‘top-down’ anti-democratic approaches that generally result in the segregation of planners from ordinary citizens. Theoretical planning models dominating the decades […]

Historically, the urban planning and design fields have been the specific realms of men, shaped by the ethos of engineering and the anthropology of male researchers and politicians. Traditionally, such fields have been dominated by men for the simple fact that women were given only a small opportunity to maintain a set of studies for […]