As state leaders ponder how to address soaring population growth and a housing shortage in established suburbs, experts explain how Melbourne can learn from the Netherlands, Paris, Tokyo and Vancouver.
Amsterdam is one of four major cities in the Randstad.But as state leaders ponder how to address soaring population growth and a housing shortage in established suburbs, experts explain how Melbourne can learn from the Netherlands, Paris, Tokyo and Vancouver.
His daily commute involved a 15-minute cycle to a train station, a 40-minute train ride to Rotterdam and another bike ride to the office. The public transport network has a bike-share scheme that uses the same tap on/tap off system, so people can lock up their bike on one end of their journey and use another one on the other side.“The more convenient, the more likely people are to use the system,” Hyde says.“In the Randstad, each centre is fully complete.
“Paris inherited an unwieldy, dysfunctional metropolitan region and started investing at its edges,” he says.It has also had some not-so-successful experiments. La Defense, located a few kilometres from the edge of Paris’ historic centre, is a huge purpose-built business district full of soaring towers, but its single function made it a ghost town outside of office hours. It’s since been transformed to have a greater mix of uses and much more 24-hour vibrancy.
French-born RMIT social geographer Dr Louise Dorignon, who lived in Paris until 2009, has watched how the city tried to reduce its hyper-centrality and correct errors of last century when large-scale social housing estates were built on the outskirts of Paris, known as “banlieues”, and became associated with deep social inequality.
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