Category: Planning
Historical transport and planning documents now online
I have spent some time uploading some historical transport and planning documents related to Melbourne and its development. Check them out here!
Which is the largest suburb in Melbourne?
In a recent conversation I was talking about the smallest and largest suburbs in Melbourne. It seems that while quite a few people have worked out the smallest ones, nobody has yet identified the largest (if you have and Google didn’t show it up please let me know). Methodology Generally I define a ‘suburb’ that…
Are more people living in apartments now than in 1954?
65 years ago the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) released the Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme. This formed the foundations for our current planning system. Some aspects, like car parking requirements, remain exactly the same. Combing through the Scheme and its background reports yield some fascinating insights for what town planners considered to be…
The ridiculous private parks of Kensington, London
Note: this was originally written in August during my recent trip to the United Kingdon. It is not often that I find something that frustrates me enough to complain at fenceposts. Unfortunately, this is how my otherwise wonderful day in London ended on a warm summer evening in August. In search of a park I…
Walking adventures in Port Melbourne
A quest to find an 8cm quiche baking pan brought me into South Melbourne today. After several days of fruitless searching at a multitude of homeware and cooking shops in the eastern suburbs, I finally found what I was looking for at Chef’s Hat on Cecil Street. After a celebratory cheese and spinach borek (for…