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Title: Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne, 1985-
Author: DOVEY KIM / ADAMS ROB / JONES RON
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 26/02/2018
Imprint: MIEGUNYAH PRESS/MUP
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
Despite a very substantial architecture and urban heritage, Melbourne in the mid 1980s was experiencing a flight to the suburbs and becoming a rather dull city that closed on evenings and weekends. While many challenges remain, the incremental transformation of central Melbourne is now a global success story that needs to be better studied.
This is not one story but many- the design of new architecture and public space reclaimed from cars and rail yards; from turning its back on the water, Melbourne has integrated the river and become a waterfront city. It has grown greener-literally, environmentally and politically. Laneways that were once filled with garbage are now filled with ‘hidden’ bars, artworks, housing and urban art.
<br.Always an urbane city, Melbourne is re-emerging as a city of great intensity, with a depth of character and urban buzz that is at once palpable, ineffable and unfinished. Urban Choreography will document and discuss the many urban design transformations over this period with a focus on key events, plans, projects, places and people involved and seeks to understand the political and other forces that drove, framed and constrained these changes.
ISBN: 9780522871661