Tag: livable cities
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Patrick Geddes on Sustainable City Life and Planning
Introduction: Reconsidering the City Through Geddes’ Lens Patrick Geddes, a pioneering thinker of urban design and regional planning, challenged the way cities grow. Long before today’s concerns about sustainability, resilience, and livability dominated planning debates, Geddes urged planners to consider the city as a living organism, shaped by its people, places, and processes. His ideas…
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Improving Neighbourhoods for Older Melbournians: Citizen Scientists Lead the Way
Rethinking the street for an aging city Melbourne is racing to adapt to a growing cohort of older residents. A dedicated group of 65-plus citizen scientists has spent months walking, observing, and reporting on the everyday realities of suburb life. Their aim is simple but ambitious: identify practical changes that make neighbourhoods safer, easier to…