EcoCity (EBD)
EBD
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What does Melbourne look like in 2032? In 2008, VEIL's Design Hub members looked at the last remaining vacant land available for development in Melbourne’s CBD, known as E-Gate, and applied some very radical thinking.
A vision for a mini-city within the city, a new sustainable precinct on an existing site within Melbourne – the 25 h 'E-gate' site – to the north of Docklands. This vision of development focuses on new sustainable systems (infrastructure, lifestyles, behaviours, enabling technologies) with an overall aim to demonstrate models for a ‘super-low’ consumption community, suited to a zero carbon future. The site is intended to be highly productive (energy, water, food, new business), adding value to the existing city and suited to people who desire to be part of a unique high-density residential and working precinct.
EBD is an Eco-City of the future between the Docklands and the CBD - a new model of sustainable prosperity.
EBD Site: Characteristics & Glimpses
| An eco-city of the future beside the CBD 6000 -10000 residents and workers low-carbon living now: 2050 in 2020 : diverse life-styles and built form, resilient – socially, culturally, physically A model of sustainable prosperity: ‘living better – consuming less’ |
The Melbourne Environmental Business District, circa 2015
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| The site known as E-Gate is owned by government railway body VicTrack, and is to become available for development by 2015.  It is the last remaining large-scale vacant land 2km from Melbourne's city centre. |
| Live Better, Consume Less: the EBD Newsletter. |
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The EBD Newsletter is a compilation of the ideas, stories, persona diaries and visions that came out of the EBD Design Workshop - otherwise known as the Hub. Published for the residential and transient site population, it provides a glimpse of what life might be like in this EcoCity in 2032. Read the Newsletter.
| Glimpsing the new EcoCity - how might we live better and consume less? |
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| Live Better, Consume Less: Welcome to EBD. |
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