Architecture, Building and Planning - Theses
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ItemReclamation art : an alternative aesthetic to the picturesque(University of Melbourne, 1996)
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ItemA landscape for learning : the design and use of the school ground(University of Melbourne, 1993)
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ItemManagement of Victoria's visual landscape resources within the government legal and administrative structure(University of Melbourne, 1979)
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ItemWurundjeri(University of Melbourne, 1992)
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ItemThe impact of the organizational relationship between landscape designer and landscape constructor on the client experience(University of Melbourne, 2003)
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ItemRethinking the Inflexible City: what can Australian planning learn from successful implementation of ‘temporary uses’ across the world?( 2013)Temporary uses have been identified as a low-cost, participatory, and economically beneficial method of managing urban change. As planning practice increasingly deploys temporary use, good outcomes require an understanding of how the two interact. Using the case study methodology, this thesis examines the ways in which formal planning practice can encourage, support, complicate and hinder informal temporary urbanism. The thesis does this by analysing the experiences of four agencies facilitating the implementation of temporary uses worldwide, examining their interaction with the planning system, and identifying common constructive and obstructive policy mechanisms. Temporary use projects can be initiated without high levels of support from formal planning; however, having to comply with the formal planning process is a significant hurdle. Traditional planning does not make provisions for short-term urbanism, imposing costly and time-consuming processes incommensurate with the short duration and low cost of the temporary use. Applications for change of use, requirements for building safety triggered by the planning process, and the perceived arbitrariness of the decision-making process are the biggest hurdles that formal planning imposes on temporary use. Temporary uses are best supported through dedicated processes, staff, and relaxed regulations. The findings confirm that temporary uses are a successful method for finding opportunity in situations of uncertainty and crisis. Formal planning practice can strategically deploy temporary projects to achieve long-term planning objectives. These findings should spark more debate about, research on, and experimentation with temporary uses.
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ItemConsolidating the Australian Dream: Housing Aspirations of Young Adults in Melbourne( 2022)The notion of ‘home’ as a house on a large block of land has been a key ideal of a longstanding ‘Australian Dream’. Chasing the Australian Dream is common in the psyche of a settler-colonial and immigrant society where, for several generations now, it has often meant a ticket to financial profit, conventional family comfort and a stake in the political agenda. The cultural concept is oft considered to be a powerful social norm in Australia, so much so that there continues to be de-facto democratic support for urban sprawl and restrictions on densification in established residential neighbourhoods, despite the impacts on sustainability and social equity. The thesis takes an exploratory approach to better understand how ideals of the Australian Dream may or may not be influencing the kinds of housing and neighbourhoods that young adults actually want to live in. An online survey was created in an attempt to answer the following research questions; 1) to what extent do young adults living in Melbourne aspire towards the Australian Dream?, and 2) what kinds of housing and neighbourhoods do young adults wish to see more of in Melbourne? Overall, the results show that ideals of the Australian Dream were substantially more private and inward focused than the contemporary issues that young adults were concerned about when considering notions of home. Young adults overwhelmingly prioritised proximity to services and public transport over dwelling size, amount of storage and private features. Despite some limitations in the sampling and survey methodology, the implications of this research are that much more needs to be done to plan and deliver on 20-minute neighbourhoods and to open up space for more medium density mixed use housing, particularly across established inner and middle suburbs of Melbourne.
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ItemCar dependency in metropolitan Melbourne: a travel pattern analysis of journey to work( 2022)Car dependency is one of the most complex transport issues in Australia and other developed countries worldwide. From traffic congestion to health problems, the negative impacts of car dependency are critical and multifaceted. In Melbourne, despite public transport services covering 31 local government areas (LGAs), about 64% of trips to work are made by private vehicle, making car-driving the most preferred travel mode among Melbournians and making use of public transport relatively low. This situation is due in part to the failure of policies implemented to reduce congestion and in part to politics that favoured road-oriented design. However, studies of car dependency tend to focus on broader rather than small-scall demographic and geographic aspects. Therefore, this research has focused on comparing inner with outer Melbourne LGAs by analysing Victoria Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity (VISTA) data from 2012 to 2018 to find out who is car-dependent and why they are car-dependent. The detailed analyses focus on travel to work by different demographic groups and the cost of various travel modes. The study is guided by the following research question: What makes people choose cars over other transport modes in metropolitan Melbourne? There are two sub-questions. The first relates to the demographic factors (income, age, and gender) and compares inner-city and outer-city LGAs. The second compares motor vehicle drivers, public transport users, and walking/cycling users in both inner-city and outer-city LGAs in metropolitan Melbourne, examining cost, travel time, and distance. The results reveal the distribution of motor vehicle users appears to be higher in the outer suburbs of Melbourne where there are lower incomes and longer travel distances, implying that forced car ownership affects people’s choice of travel. Furthermore, the analysis of public transport travel patterns found that people choose motor vehicles because of a lack of connectivity between home and public transport, security concerns around public transport, and the reliability and flexibility of having private transport. The cost of various travel modes is somehow difficult to measure, therefore, further studies on how policies can influence people’s travel choice will help better understand the causes of car dependency in the urban areas.
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ItemFear and Loathing in Urban Development: Examining community reactions to high-density developments( 2022)High-density developments are often perceived, by local residents, as a threat and proponents of these sorts of developments often experience high volumes of opposition. The creation and use of two broad categories of community reactions to high-density development can help to discern between two broad types of concern, that which seeks to improve planning outcomes for the benefit of the wider community and world, and that which is more self-interested and personally motivated. Such differentiation can provide clear information about the issues that communities care about and can be used to inform better development decisions by developers, local and state government. This research uses the case study of the Preston Market Precinct Structure Plan to test a method of categorising community opposition into two categories, those that are concerned with broader more global issues; ‘selfless’ concerns, and the more parochial, ‘self-interested’ forms of opposition that are often labelled by others as NIMBYism. Understanding the nature and prevalence of concerns of the two types will aid in the future management of community responses to development and help determine better development outcomes.