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Docklands – Starting Your Project

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How Livable is Docklands?

For the next three weeks, you will be researching, putting together your field data and presenting your field report on the livability of Docklands. You will need to include as much evidence and support as possible. The following you tubes and internet links provide sites that will add to your field observations.

Remember, your report needs to include the following headings:

1. Location of Docklands
2. Geographic and Human Characteristics of Docklands
3. History of Docklands
4. Overview of Docklands Development
5. Livability of Docklands
6. Recommendations

An Advertisement for Docklands

General Resources

City of Melbourne – Docklands

City of Melbourne – Docklands Links and Maps

Melbourne Docklands Home Page

VicUrban – Melbourne Docklands

Onboard Docklands – Docklands Community Website

Docklands Community News

History of Docklands

City of Melbourne – Docklands History and Transition

Only Melbourne – Docklands Precinct Heritage Sites

Demographic Data

ABS MapStats – Search by Location

Economic and Demographic Profiles of Suburbs – Docklands

Economic Information

Docklands Chamber of Commerce

New Urban Development

$1 billion suburb – Park to Breathe Life into Docklands (Have a look at the comments at the end of this article – some very interesting ideas)

Community Views

Talking Docklands – Open Channel, in association with City of Melbourne and Portable Content, produced 8 shorts made by people with no previous filmmaking experience. Their brief? To make a film about what living in the Docklands means to them personally.

Other examples and views of Docklands can be found by clicking the following link – Talking Docklands

3008Docklands Magazine

Criticisms of Docklands

The Herald Sun – Melbourne’s Docklands A Precinct on Edge

The Age – Docklands a Wasted Opportunity?

Cities of Theory – The Art of Planning – Urban Art in Docklands


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