Urban Planning in Melbourne: Critical Analysis and Examples

This report provides an in-depth analysis of urban planning in Melbourne, Australia, focusing on the city's rapid growth, climate change impacts, and the challenges of urban equity. It examines the core assumptions underpinning urban planning, highlighting the city's strategies for sustainable development and adaptation. The report explores the historical context of urban planning in Melbourne, tracing the evolution of planning practices and their response to societal changes. It discusses the city's vision for the future, emphasizing the importance of community involvement and the alignment of planning with the Council Plan. The analysis also covers key trends, financial capabilities, and the need for agile strategies to leverage opportunities. The report delves into urban design, the intersection of built environments and public interest, and the role of urban planners in addressing pressing issues like urbanization and climate change. Furthermore, it addresses the concept of a "just city", the challenges of urban equity, and the influence of globalization and technological advancements on planning. The conclusion emphasizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach and innovative responses to the global climate crisis, advocating for effective urban climate policy and planning. The report references various academic sources to support its analysis and conclusions.

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Introduction
This study deals with urban planning of Melbourne Australia. In this particular
assignment, proper emphasis has been given on core assumptions underpinning urban planning.
Melbourne is the highest growing municipality in and across Australia (Wensing and Porter
2016). The current segments properly explain about urban planning at Melbourne. The demand
of services at City of Melbourne challenges as well as redirect to the growth areas. The climate
of Melbourne is changing drastically where the residents are experiencing the effects of climate
change. This city has even implemented Climate Adaptation approach as it has important role in
how it plans designs as well as develops and maintains assets in the most appropriate way. The
year 1970 was noticeable with the beginning of the period of concentrated modify in western
capitalism that has major significant impact on the role as well as practice of western preparation
for cities (Steele, Mata and Fünfgeld 2015)
Critically discuss and illustrate with examples specific to metropolitan Melbourne
The city of Melbourne actually covers the central city as well as 16 inner suburbs. The
City of Melbourne is the central precinct that thrives residential, cultural as well as entertainment
and educational precinct (Steele, Mata and Fünfgeld 2015). Furthermore, the Melbourne city is
experiencing a fast rising population where individual seek it as a destination for trade as well as
dwelling and work occasion. The city of Melbourne aims at achieving the vision of society for
Melbourne to remain bold, sustainable and inspirational city. Therefore, the community plan
needs to be created by the public for guiding how the city should evolve by the year 2020. This
city support for the visions as it is set out in the Council Plan that include priorities as it shape its
program of work as well as planned outcomes (Roberts, Sykes and Granger 2016).

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The City of Melbourne had identified key trends as well as challenges that impact
services and infrastructure. The service need to be delivered to the community for past decades.
There are several opportunities that arise from the changes as well as it is essential that it is agile
enough for leveraging these advantages (Steele et al. 2012).
The city of Melbourne mainly identifies current as well as estimated financial capability
for delivering high excellence services, infrastructure and facilities at the time of recognizing
critical new capital investment for supporting the increasing population and responding to
challenges of the city (Steele 2009).
Key assumptions- These assumptions is properly based on available data as well as professional
judgment (Steele, Mata and Fünfgeld 2015).
Sensitivity analysis- These analysis help in demonstrating the monetary inference of deviations
from the given key hypothesis
Strategies- These strategies will recognize detailed actions that need to be commenced (Roberts,
Sykes and Granger 2016).
Urban design is one of the arts that make places and collaborative process as it shapes the
physical setting for life in urban areas. In addition, urban development focuses mainly in the
intersection of the built surroundings as well as public interest. It help in exploring the design as
well as planning of public spaces that takes into account the issues relating to social, aesthetic
and environment. Furthermore, urban planners as well as designers properly engage in solving
the pressing issue of time that include increased urbanization, sustainable resourcing and climate
change (Roberts, Sykes and Granger 2016).

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There are several issues with urban equity that gets linked with the urban planning. The
quest is for just city as it defines in terms of diversity, sustainability as well as democracy and
difference as it become highly problematic areas. For instance, it is argued that the essential of
climate change adds up urgency to the longstanding fairness schedule of planning in cities. For
this the conceptual framework as well as methodical structure for incorporating the main beliefs
of climatic fairness and impartiality into urban scheduling and practice (Norton et al. 2015)
The idea of “just city” is not new to urban planning and sorted to correct harms that arise
from living in cities as well as advances to get better quality of life especially for urban residents.
The ideals of justice actually gets embedded with planning theory as well as practice that help in
identifying the basis for just climate city as well as understanding the fact on how planning failed
for substantively engaged ideals of fairness in planning for climate transform (McClintock
2014).
There are several issues of urban equity that gets connected with the urban planning.
During the reformist era of planning, it is noted that the practitioners pursue better access to
parks as well as playgrounds that will further improve cleanliness and improved superiority
housing especially for city resident (Badland et al. 2014).
The above problem can be solved by focusing on ways that improves the condition of
city expansion through utopian plan at more realistic level by zoning as well as other dictatorial
expansion control method. It is even noted that the approach might fail to come in terms with the
real cause of the issue that is poverty as well as nature of the financial scheme. Some of the
issues emerged dramatically that include new scheme of worldwide resources accumulation as
well as growing responsiveness of an ecological disaster (Lipman 2013).

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It is important to understand the fact that city age features by completely new sectors of
production as well as new markets and new ways of providing monetary services. There is a
quick structural change present in terms of resources as well as labor that showed greater
importance upon marketplace direction and condensed role for the state (Hughes, Chu and
Mason 2017).
The inference for city planning takes into account a shift away from the welfare state
model where the search of privatization, downsizing, deregulation and saving as it underpins by
a strong politico-administrative stress on financial efficiencies (Steele, Mata and Fünfgeld 2015).
The intensified rates of innovation are closely interlinked with increased speed as well as
movement of economic growth and capital from the context of globalization. There are several
changes that affect the ability of urban planning for facilitating a progressive improvement
program as it include a change of mobile resources as well as international business. It takes into
account competitive as well as strategic territorial positioning. It even involves global demand
for resources as well as energy security and diversity (Fainstein 2014).
Emerging understanding of urban as well as biased natural science discusses cities as
metabolic systems where the performance of production and expenditure alter both in terms of
nature and culture. From the context of institution, it needs to critically engage with the ethics as
well as practices that shape relation between humans and non-humans like climate change
(Chawla 2016).
It is important for the Australian Government to achieve transformational change where
the nation state should look at types of leverage as well as more egalitarian cities (Steele, Mata
and Fünfgeld 2015). The fact underpins by strong national welfare programs. In addition, local

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policies actually make the life better. Urban planner emerges to navigate a third space from
planning context that increases decenterd as well as pulled in the pursuit of development. It is
important to consider the fact that contemporary dimensions as well as implications shows for
the planning profession as it had received attention within the planning literature of Australia
(Baeten 2012). The urban planners should continue to gain experience during their working life
as it develops skills. The opportunities for personal as well as professional development that
arise from good management practice as it plays significant role at the time of recruitment and
staff retention practices. The profession should be taking into account ethical issues that had
been raised as a greater proportion as it is being employed for given period of time. Therefore, it
is important to review the code of professional conduct for emphasizing the duty of individuals
to the public as well as wider profession (Campbell and Marshall 2000).
Conclusion
At the end of the study, it is concluded that climate-just city need to focus mainly on the
contemporary nature of the city as well as the role it plays in the cities. It integrates with the
multifaceted links between human susceptibility as well as biodiversity loss especially in the
natural surroundings as it needs an inter-disciplinary schedule and new forms of sustainability
strategy as it underpins by an integrated approach in cities. There are several current methods
that are used for assessing the impact of climate change on cities as it incorporates both an
appraisal of impacts on the natural environment as well as negotiations of climate justice for
humans and non-humans. Furthermore, an expanded conceptualization of urban climate justice
highlights facts about ecological sense of human-nature as it help in devising much needed
creative as well as innovative responses to the global climate crisis. Expected future research is
needed for informing effective urban climate policy as well as planning and implication of

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justice as it help at the time of urban decision-making process as it relates to climate change in
the most appropriate way.

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