Melbourne:Global Smart City - Presentation Edition
Fast Thinking’s Melbourne: Global Smart City is designed for readers who are curious about a successful city and its growth plans, a world-class city, which is thinking 30 or more years into the future and acting now.
This volume is the first of an international series devoted to the new frontiers of urban planning in the fullest sense, incorporating many elements of successful cities. It represents an effort to bring together the many disparate strands which comprise a city, and to look carefully at the reasons why a city is successful.
The subjects range from the arts to long-range water planning, climate change policy to architecture, history, the built environment, major events and the culinary scene, and includes many more topical areas written by authoritative leaders in various fields.
To our knowledge, such a compilation of intertwining facets of metropolitan life and future planning have not before been combined between two covers.
In this case the wonderful city of Melbourne was chosen as the showpiece exemplar across a range of subjects, owing to its history, strong governance, orderly and far-sighted planning processes (which are in many cases proven and long-standing) and its overall vitality and cultural delight. Full disclosure: our company is not based in Melbourne and thus the choice was entirely objective.