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  20-minute neighbourhoods

  planning.vic.gov.au

  What are 20-minute neighbourhoods? Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 is the Victorian Government’s long-term planning strategy, guiding the way the city will …

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  Magic Wandsworth: house prices rise but homes do a disappearing act

  Financial Times - Liz Rowlinson

  Such is their devotion to the suburb of Wandsworth, in south-west London, that when James and Victoria Robbins sold their 1,400 sq ft three-bedroom railway workers’ cottage last October in search of more space, they moved just 157 metres away to a 2,200 sq ft, four-bedroom semi with a larger …

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  Opinion: Bring Back the Neighborhood Corner Store

  planetizen.com - James Brasuell

  Roshan_NG / Shutterstock Sam Kraft, principal of D3 Architects and instructor of architecture at the University of Washington, writes a guest article …

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  Walking to bus stops

  victoriawalks.org.au

  Walking is the main way people get to bus stops, with 94% of users in Melbourne walking all or part of the way. This report – Getting to the Bus Stop …

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  Density is not the problem

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  Christopher Alexander, Architect Who Humanized Urban Design, Dies at 85

  The New York Times - Penelope Green

  Christopher Alexander, the Viennese-born professor, architect and theorist who believed that ordinary people, not just trained architects, should have a hand in designing their houses, neighborhoods and cities, and proposed a method for doing so in writing that could be poetically erudite, …