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Activating vertical villages
The Heart Foundation has long advocated walkable neighbourhoods with connected streets and open spaces to promote physical activity, but what opportunities are there in our high-density vertical villages?
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Litter from the heavens
Recycling is one way of dealing with high-rise waste but, unfortunately, there are other routes taken by our rubbish.
Read MoreUrban forests in a concrete jungle
For a seventh consecutive year Melbourne has been named the world’s most liveable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) - but how liveable are our fast growing high density precincts?
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Safe and secure in our vertical villages
Safe City, Liveable City, EcoCity, Resilient City, Smart City, Knowledge City, Compassionate City – our Melbourne is a multi-themed and highly-considered metropolis!
Read MoreSharing and taking in vertical villages
“Airbnb is not accommodation sharing, it is formalised lending. Uber is not ride sharing, it is a transportation service,” so writes John Harvey of the University of Nottingham.
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The vertical war on food waste
The month of May played host to International Compost Awareness Week – and if we lived in San Francisco, this would mean a great deal more to us as vertical dwellers.
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Not just droning on !
Last month a resident’s letter was published on drones in Docklands, raising concerns over privacy and safety.
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Double duty furniture
“Vertical living is more than suburbia turned on its side”, so says Mond Qu, a Melbourne-based designer and creator of the DEBLE – a DEsk taBLE combo.
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3D printing vertical villages
At Melbourne’s Sustainability Festival in February, four RMIT students showcased their “green innovations”.
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Modular means flexible vertical living
There is no time like the summer holidays to test our design ingenuity as we organise and reorganise our compact apartments to accommodate hordes of visiting friends and relations (e.g. Christmas dinner for 15 at my place?).
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Council ready to support overshadowing
William Angliss Institute’s Bun Day delivers on tasty treats
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