The EBD Site
What might life be like in EBD in 2032? The Overarching Characteristics provide the starting point, or, the basic assumptions that inform the design development that followed. The Newsletter allows a more intimate glimpse of ways of living and working in this new EcoCity.
Together, these documents formed the VEIL overall brief that was given to the students in participating studios.
| 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.