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 Links and Maps
VicUrban – Melbourne Docklands
Onboard Docklands – Docklands Community Website
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
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
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