Glimpses
Glimpses
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Sometimes we need to be reminded just how profoundly different Melbourne is in 2032, in its structure, in its economic base and in the nature of daily life, from the City that it was at the turn of the century.
Many of the significant changes to Melbourne over the last 25 years can be understood in retrospect as the outcomes of certain critical events as well as the changing nature of community concerns, over the intervening period. These events and concerns shaped the way that social, political and technological developments unfolded during and after the decades 2000¬-2020.
| Productive vertical villages. | 
Visualisation: Charles Lin |
The Place: A neighbourhood which is one of the early ‘activity-centre’ developments of the Melbourne 2030 plan.
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In 2010, as inner-city living increased in density, a large and successful ‘inner school’ decided to divide its existing campus into four dispersed ‘quarter campuses’ approximately 4 km apart. These campuses still operate as one school, with the teachers each having one campus as their ‘base’, and each quarter taking students only from within its 2 km radius. Students from all quarters meet several times a week for communal activities, and expensive or large equipment and facilities are each located at one of the quarter schools with time-tabled access for all students. Classrooms are ‘virtually extended’ to other classrooms at another campus, and operate like a double-length room with one end-wall projecting the ‘other half’ of the physically separated room. |
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| A floating garden, market and food-processing depot for Docklands. |
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